Choose a picture from our Images Dated 11th October 2007 Collection for your Wall Art and Photo Gifts
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Sunday in Gin PalaceSunday afternoon in a London gin-palace
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, sees his beloved BeatriceDante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy, sees his beloved Beatrice Portinari on the Lung Arno, Florence
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, statue as a boyWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791), Austrian composer and musician, seen here in the form of a statue, as a boy with a violin and bow
Lovecraft / Colour / SpaceA shapeless stream of unplaceable colour - scene from The colour out of space
Hollow EarthTHE HOLLOW EARTH Neuperts model
Teeth of adults and childrenThe teeth of adults and children, shown in cross-section, individually, and in the mouth
UFO crash at Roswell, New MexicoIrving Newton, Met. Officer at Roswell USAFB, New Mexico, holds debris of a supposed flying saucer found by rancher Mac Brazel, stated by the US Air Force to be a weather balloon
Fox Hunting / AccidentA hunting accident - " A squire-trap, by jove", cries Mytton, " a little more and I should have done it" ! English eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) takes a tumble
Elgar out WalkingEDWARD ELGAR Postcard, Circa 1905
Justice as depicted on a Tarot cardComtesse de Segur, nee Sophie Rostopchine, French writer, born in Russia, best known for Les Malheurs de Sophie, first published 1859
Three Musketeers / C19ThAt the bastion of Saint- Gervais
Maps / Australia 1850SMap showing the location of the GOLDFIELDS, so presumably made fairly soon after the start of the Australian Gold Rush in 1851
Grand Entrance to the Great Exhibition of 1851The Great Exhibition of All Nations in Hyde Park, London - view of the Grand Entrance to the Crystal Palace, with people milling around
Gutenbergs press, with booksGutenbergs press, reconstructed from what was left of it, and housed in the Deutsche Buchgewerbehaus at Leipzig, Germany
Two skeletons, human and gorillaA human skeleton compared with that of a gorilla
Lake Bled with church, SloveniaView of Lake Bled with the Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary, near the town of Bled in north west Slovenia
Sherlock Holmes / VillanTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST Holmes gets his man: he spun round with a scream & fell upon his back
Shavington Day / HuntingSHAVINGTON DAY A trial between rival packs and horsemen. Participating is the eccentric Shropshire Squire of Halston John Mytton (1796-1834)
Threshing MachineCombined Thrashing and Stacking Machine, by Wilkinson, Wright of Boston, Lincolnshire
The Venerable BedeTHE VENERABLE BEDE Anglo-Saxon scholar, historian and theologian
Punic War, Cato & SenatePUNIC WARS Cato insists to the Senate that Carthage is a threat to Rome and must be destroyed
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, at Max GateThomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, outside his home at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset. Hardy designed the house, and his brother built it -- Hardy and his first wife Emma moved there in 1885
Tycho Brahe AstrolabeTycho-Brahes astrolabe
Brighton PavilionThe East Front of the Pavilion
Verdi conducts AidaGiuseppe Verdi conducts his Aida at the Paris Opera, 1880
John Duns ScotusJOHN DUNS SCOTUS Scottish scholastic theologian
Matilda Serao, Italian journalist and novelistMatilda (or Matilde) Serao (1856-1927), Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist, founder and editor of Il Giorno
MALTHUS (1766 - 1834)THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS philosopher, known for study of population
Blackpool / Pier / Prom 1890Blackpool pier and section of the promanade
Animals / Extinct / DodoAnimals/Extinct/Dodo
15th Century JesterA French court jester, in traditional outfit, with cap and bells, carrying a ninny stick, or jesters wand
Crime / ResurrectionistsRobbing graveyards for corpses which will be sold to medical schools for purposes of anatomy
Archimedes, Greek mathematician and inventor
Tarot Card 4 - L Empereur (The Emperor)
Peary and Cook dispute over the North PoleRobert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all
Lake Bled with church, SloveniaView of Lake Bled with the Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary, near the town of Bled in north west Slovenia. Built in the 15th century, weddings are held regularly at the church
Fairs / Electric Cars / 1956Monte Carlo Rally electric car ride at Dreamland, Margate
Viking Ships 9 / 10C CigA Viking ship
Loie Fuller / Folies 1892LOIE FULLER (Mary Louise Fuller) American dancer at the Folies Bergere, Paris
Composer BeethovenLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN German composer Portrait
Durham Univ Exam 1842Examination of the students of the University of Durham
Flight / Flying GirlPretty young aviatrix in a belted leather flight coat, leather gauntlets, helmet & goggles
Klondike Gold RushTHE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH - the stream of prospectors making their way across the Chilcot Pass on their way to the diggings
AcupunctureACUPUNCTURE The Meridian of the Heart
Joseph ConradJOSEPH CONRAD Polish-born writer, in 1921
Savoy Hotel Chef 1899The head chef at the Savoy Hotel
Thomas Edison / La NatureTHOMAS ALVA EDISON Listening to the first phonogram sent to New York from England
Girl in Kitchen GardenGirl working in a rural kitchen garden collecting cabbages