Images Dated 29th July 2015 (page 50)

Napoleon and sphinx
LOedipe: Napoleon face to face with the Sphinx in Egypt. Date: July 1798

Beethovens Hearing Aids
A selection of Beethovens hearing aids

WAVING AS PLANE LEAVES
Waving to passengers on a plane just about to take off

FLEET RIVER AT HAMPSTEAD
FLEET RIVER at Hampstead Date: 1854

GEORGE ELIOT / MILBY
GEORGE ELIOT Market Day at Milby, the setting for Janets Repentance in Scenes of Clerical Life Date: 1819 - 1880

GEESE HONOURED BY ROME
Geese, whose cackling warned the Romans of the approach of Brennus and his Gauls, are municipally honoured Date: 390 BC

SAVOY DINNER 1912
Dinner at The Savoy Date: 1912

LONDON STREET, C18
A street scene in London at the time of the South Sea Bubble Date: circa 1720

AFTERNOON TEA IN PARIS
Taking tea in a Paris hotel Date: 1893

METEORITE /
A meteor shower seen from a balloon over Northern France by Wilfred de Fonvielle Date: November 1867

Edvard Hagerup Grieg(1843-1907), Norwegian musician, pictured here with Bjornstern Bjornson at Bergen, 1903

DINOSAURS / NOAHS ARK
Noah finds that the dinosaurs are too large to be saved in his Ark

STREET TRADES / BREAD
A London baker selling his bread in the streets Date: circa 1870

SAINT EUFROSYNA Roman martyr (centre) with Saints Domitilla (on left) and Theodora Date: First century

MORALS / ROME THEATRES
The theatres of Rome are destroyed because they are considered to have a corrupting influence on public morals Date: 158 BC

FULTON (1765 - 1815)
ROBERT FULTON American inventor; in Paris 1797-1806 he invents a submarine but fails to interest Napoleon Date: 1765 - 1815

ARMADA BEACONS 1588
THE SPANISH ARMADA Lighting the beacons to signal the alarm Date: July 1588

EVENTS / GERMANY
THE ERA OF THE WANDERING TRIBES Date: circa 5th century

SOCIAL SCENES / C19 SLUMS
Visiting a slum home - two ladies and their manservant bring food to the hungry Date: circa 1830

PUPIL 19C SCHOOLBOY
Victorian schoolboy wearing mortarboard Date: Late 19th Century

ALTHOTAS (18TH CENTURY)
ALTHOTAS alchemist and occultist, supposed teacher and companion of Cagliostro, who may very well never have existed Date: 18TH CENTURY

Scene - Medieval Hall
The main hall of a medieval chateau Date: circa 1150

RELIGION / EGYPT
ISIS as ISIS-SEPT, one of her many forms

HEAVEN AND EARTH
A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches Heaven. Date: Medieval

Music - Bagpipes
Bagpipers of the 1st Scots Guards Date: 1895

Tsar Nicolas I (1796 - 1855) reviewing his guard. Date: circa 1840

Two Circassian soldiers Date: 1855

Mongol Invaders
Mongol (Tatar) invaders defeat a Volhynian-Galician-Polovtsian alliance at the KALKA RIVER, leading to the establishment of Tatar rule Date: 1223

Puritans in a Monastery
Puritan soldiers plunder a monastery during the English Civil War. Date: circa 1642

Puritan Soldier Preaches
Puritan soldier preaching to fellow soldiers in church. Date: circa 1642

French Couple Dancing
A happy French couple dancing in each others arms. Date: 1934

Cesare Baronio, an Italian ecclesiastical historian writing with a quill. Date: circa 1600

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), an English author and Rector in North Devon. Date: 1893

Monk Copyists
A monk copyist at work. It is also the first known picture of a man wearing spectacles. Date: 1352

Monks wearing monastical Habits
Monastical habits Date: 12th century

Abbot Elfnoth presents prayer book to monks
Abbot Elfnoth presents a book of prayer to the Monastery of Saint Augustin. Date: 10th century

King Henry V at Battle of Agincourt
Henry V leads the English to victory at Agincourt, defeating an army four times as large : the French lost 8000, the English 400 during the hundred years war Date: 1415

Country Scene with Traditional North Wales Clothes
Costumes of North Wales Date: 1825

Schoolgirls Dancing a Quadrille in New Lanark
Robert Owen seeks to create an ideal working community at New Lanark, near Glasgow, Scotland - schoolgirls dancing a quadrille Date: 1825

British Horse Artillery at Fuentes dOnoro
British horse artillery at Fuentes dOnoro. Battle of Fuentes dOnoro : Wellington manages to defeat Massena but comments If Boney had been there we would have been damnably licked. Date: 1811

Street Scene of Glasgow
Street scene with shops and street traffic including a coal cart Date: 1825

Illustration of Ancient Roman Poet Ovids Art of Love
Illustration to Ovids Art of Love. Date: 19th century

William Hogarths Election 3 of 4
The Election- The Polling - scene at the hustings plate 3 of 4 Date: 1758

A Highland Shepherd and his Sheepdog
A highland shepherd and his sheepdog. Date: 1848

Hunting Buffalo while Riding Elephants
Shooting and spearing buffalo from elephants Date: 1807

Native American Hunting Buffalo on Horseback. Date: circa 1830

Native American Sioux Hunting Buffalo on Horseback. Date: circa 1830

Theatrical Illustration of Hell Mouth
Hell Mouth

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