Images Dated 14th October 2007 (page 5)

Tartinis Dream
TARTINIs DREAM In a visionary dream, the devil plays the music he needs for the final passage of a piece, known in consequence as the Devils Trill Sonata

Eucharistic Congress
The EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS 1932 - souvenir card, in which the whole of Ireland, Catholic or Protestant, is illuminated by the holy sacrament

Culebra Cut
At work on the Culebra Cut : half hidden is one of the steam shovels digging out the bottom of the canal : the bridge is a temporary erection during construction

Vichy Source
VICHY - the Palais des Sources

Dickens as Bobadil
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens in the role of Captain Bobadil in Ben Jonsons Every Man in His Humour

Norman Conquest 1066
Harold tells King Edward of his mission

P. Revolt / Henry Ford Ill
Richard II, mounted on his horse, confronts the rebels

Mother, Children, Book
Maman and her two daughters look at a picture book

Little Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood smiles down on the wolf. The wolf shows his teeth in reply

Daimlers First Model
Gottlib Daimlers first model

Racial / W Africa / Ashanti
Captain Sir Cecil Armitage, Chief Commissioner of Northern Territories, Gold Coast (1910- 20) photographed at Accra with a group of Ashanti kings

Gaulish Warrior
A GAULISH CHIEF before the Roman occupation of France

Fruit / Picking Fruit
Picking apples, decoratively

Breakfast / Village Home
A three generation family have breakfast in their village home

Bullying Husband / Watson
Bewhiskered ogre of a husband threatens his small and meek looking wife with his fist

Good Friday Procession
The Good-Friday Procession at Quito, Ecuador, is a splendidly elaborate affair, including a holy tomb, holy souls in those pointed hats, and the Virgin borne aloft

Oliver Cromwell / Marston
OLIVER CROMWELL soldier, statesman, The Protector, on horseback at Marston Moor, 2 July 1644

Charles I / Bourdet
CHARLES I OF ENGLAND With two young women, one of whom is holding a basket of flowers

Greenwich / Observatory
The Observatory, and part of the Park

Bethlehem Hospital / 1750
Hospital for the insane, known as Bedlam

Pyramids (Munster)
A depiction of the Pyramids by an artist who had the misfortune never to have seen them

Pugilist Gladiators
Pugilist gladiators, with no weapons but their arms bound with leather thongs

Roman Chariot
A four-horse-power chariot, of the kind used in racing

Franco-Pruss / Orleans
The Prussians attack a railway embankment at Orleans

Virgil (Tardieu)
VIRGIL Roman writer

Racial / Brazil Mass C1820
The womenfolk of a well-to-do Brazilian family go to Mass, led by their liveried major-domo

Arms from America
ARMS FOR SINN FEIN Submarines smuggle weapons and explosives into Ireland for Sinn Fein, sent by sympathisers in the United States

WWI / DANGER OF WAR / 1914
A Danger of War is announced in Germany

Women in Sport / Cricket
Why shouldn t we take a turn?

Sir Charles Barry
SIR CHARLES BARRY English Architect Designed the new Houses of Parliament

Fried Fish Seller
A vendor of friture (fried fish) - she also provides bread from the loaf in her basket

Advert / Bill Poster 1827
BILLPOSTING - taking down and picking up

Shakespeares Birthplace
Shakespeares birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, seen from the garden

Thomas Cromwell (Holbein
THOMAS CROMWELL statesman

Other Side / Alice / Glass
Alice looking through the looking glass 2 of 2 : the other side

Simon Bolivar
SIMON BOLIVAR South American soldier and statesman President of Colombia; known as the Liberator

Thomas John Barnardo
THOMAS JOHN BARNARDO Philanthropist

Hesione Rescued
Hesione, daughter of Trojan ruler Laomedon, is chosen by lot to be sacrificed to a monster; luckily for her Herakles happens to be nearby, and he of course rescues her

Massenet / Balestrieri
JULES MASSENET French musician, shown composing Manon

French Bouquetiere
A French bouquetiere - bouquet-maker

Viennese Fashion 1830
Viennese fashion: Ankle length skirts with a flounce at knee level, worn with gauze blouses with a double flounce at shoulder level extending round the entire garment

Denderah Zodiac
In this zodiac from Denderah in upper Egypt, the twelve traditional signs can be discerned, accompanied by the humans and other creatures whose destinies they control

Urban II at Clermont
FIRST CRUSADE At the Council of Clermont, pope Urban II urges Christians to take arms against the infidels

Syphilis Spirochaete
Spirochaete of syphilis, identified by Schaudinn and Hoffmann, 1905

Costume / Wigs
A servant holds Madams wig aloft with the help of a special stick

Old Olympics / Hero / Home
A triumphant competitor feted by his home town

Sinbad / Roc Attack / Ford
The first Roc aims a stone at the ship

Odo Leaves Rochester
Odo of Bayeux, unable to regain power, conspires against William II and is exiled from England : the illustration shows him leaving Rochester Castle, Kent

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