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Wilkie Collins / SambourneWILKIE COLLINS English novelist: a satire on his novels of mystery and melodrama
Calvin / WalterJEAN CALVIN French theological reformer, active in Switzerland
Women in Streets 1931A crowd of women in cloche hats clamour to get into the Sales at a central London shop
Annie Besant / Bibby sANNIE BESANT English theosophist and Indian political leader
Galapagos IslandsIsabela (Albemarle) Island
Philippa Hainault / EgletoPHILIPPA OF HAINAULT Queen of Edward III of England. Queens College Oxford is named after her
St Bernard of ClairvauxSAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX French monk, founder of the monastery at Clairvaux
Roger Bacon / BayardROGER BACON Scientist and scholar Date: 1214 - 1294
Racial / Turkish Lady 17CA Turkish lady, well concealed in her voluminous white and cream costume with only her eyes visible; there is a mosque in the background
Kenilworth Castle / 1575KENILWORTH CASTLE A view of the castle taken from the west
Kenilworth Castle / 1575KENILWORTH CASTLE As it stood in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Edmund GrindalEDMUND GRINDAL Archbishop of Canterbury. Undertook to reform ecclesiatical courts
Punch Pities BlindPunch pities the poor blind
Andersen / Rolighed / DkHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Danish writers home in Denmark, the Villa Rolighed (meaning Peace) where he died
Andersen / BirthplaceHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Danish writers birthplace at Odense, Denmark
Daniel in Den (Dore)Daniel, a court official of Darius, ruler of Babylon, refuses to abandon his Jewish faith, so is thrown into the lions den, but they respect him too much to eat him
Mozart (Klingsbogl)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Middle Class Living RoomThe corner of a middle-class sitting room, with ornaments in the characteristic cast- iron fireplace with its tile surround, and on the mantel, and indeed on everything
Ploughing in GermanyIdyllic farming scene depicting ploughing symmetrically with horses in fields surrounded by trees in blossom
Horse Bus ScrapThis horse bus plies from Camberwell to Camden Town, passing Charing Cross and the Zoo : the advertisement for Ridges Food is written backwards to puzzle you
Two Girls Share BrollyTwo sisters share a brolly
Washing Day, AllinghamA country cottage on washing day
Owen Jones Indian 51Ornaments from embroidered and woven fabrics, and paintings on vases, seen in the Indian Collection of the Great Exhibition and later at the South Kensington Museum
Horse WhispererJAMES SULLIVAN, the Irish horse whisperer of Dunhallow, County Cork (Ireland), who was able to tame horses almost instantaneously
Owen Jones Greek 19Ornaments from Greek and Etruscan vases in the British Museum and the Louvre
Rainbow (Grandville)Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, spreads her fan
Owen Jones Chinese 61Designs from paintings on wood, paintings on porcelain, woven fabrics and from a picture
Kirghiz CourtshipCourtship custom of the Kirghiz people - the would-be groom rides in pursuit of his prospective bride who may not try so very hard to escape
Alexander Mackenziesir ALEXANDER MACKENZIE Scottish traveller in North America, statesman in Canada but died in Scotland
Defence of Wardour CastWARDOUR CASTLE, Wiltshire is heroically defended by Lady Blanche Arundel, but she is eventually forced to surrender. However, the Royalists recapture it later
Bavarian Dance / 1908Bavarian Schuhplattler
Wwi / 1915 / Uhlan ChargeAn Uhlan cavalry charge
Bruges / Saint-SangBRUGES The annual procession of the Holy Blood
Karl Liebknecht / PostcardKARL LIEBKNECHT German left-wing statesman who opposed WWI, in 1918 formed the Spartacus League which became the German Communist Party; he was assassinated Date: 1871 - 1919
Servants at TableServants at table - a manservant, dining with the cook, reprimands the page for bringing him a steel fork (as opposed to silver)
Wilhelm Ii / GuschmannWILHELM II GERMAN ROYALTY German Emperor during the First World War: a birthday photograph
Hermit of EinseidlenHermit of Einsiedeln, Switzerland
Red Cross / Berlin 1919Volunteer Red Cross helpers during the civil strife and street fighting in Berlin
Robert Schumann / MiniaturROBERT SCHUMANN German musician, circa 1834
Bismarck FriedrichsruhOTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD, PRINZ VON BISMARCK German statesman returned to Friedrichsruh after his dismissal
Tramp Mending ClothesVisible mending - a tramp shows a bit of leg as he mends his clothes on a bench in Hyde Park, London, England
Loudun - Nuns ExorcisedThe nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule are exorcised to rid them of the demons by which they are possessed
Elijah Goes to HeavenHe is carried to Heaven in a chariot of fire
Jacob Deceives EsauThe sly JACOB obtains his simple-minded elder brother ESAUs birthright in return for a mess of pottage
Insurance / Royal / Iln / 1859The new offices of the Royal Insurance Company, Lombard Street, London
Harvest Dance, PapuaHarvest dance by the natives of Papua New Guinea
Hindu Village FestivalThe annual Hindu festival of a village goddess at Periyapalayam, near Madras
USA Memorial ServiceRevivalist Ira Sankey sings to an immense congregation at the memorial service to fellow revivalist Charles Haddon Spurgeon