Images Dated 2014 February

WWI Poster, Belgian & Allies Aid League

Design by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), Belgian & Allies Aid League, Will you help these sufferers from the war to start a new home. Help is better than sympathy. WW1 poster to raise funds for the Belgians made homeless by the war. Date: circa 1916

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The artists wife in Renaissance dress by Fortunino Matania

Ellen Jane Goldsack, known as Goldie, second wife of the Italian artist, Fortunino Matania painted wearing a sumptuous Renaissance dress and holding a prayer book in one hand. This painting is an excellent example of the lengths Matania went to, in terms of costume and props, in recreating historical period for his pictures. Date: c.1955

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?5th Regiment of horse?

?5th Regiment of horse?. Engraving from ?A Representation of the CLOATHING of His Majesty's Houshold [sic] and of all the Forces upon the Establishments of/ GREAT BRITAIN . . . 1742?, a volume of 104 coloured engravings, no details, published 1742 (c). Date: circa 1742

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