Emblems Collection (#8)

WW1 - Cartoon - Britain Joins In
WW1 - Britannia with sword and British flag ready, she marches across Britains landscape declaring war on Germany. " For friendship and honour"

Sts Cosmas and Damian (died ca. 287) are regarded as the patrons of physicians and surgeons and are sometimes represented with medical emblems. Printed in Paris. 20th century. Litography

Suffragette Scottish W. S. P. U Cup & Saucer
A tea cup and saucer commisioned for use at the Scottish W.S.P.U Exhibition, held in Glasgow in April 1910, Votes for Women April 22nd 1910

Civilian doing his bit, WW1
Humorous illustrations showing a British civilian adorned with a whole range of flags, badges and emblems of wartime service

United We Stand. Containing the Royal Coat of Arms with various Regimental emblems of British and Colonial Forces. Painted somewhere in France. English School

Letter opener Engraved Mesopotamia
Letter opener. Engraved Mesopotamia. The blade is in the shape of a Turkish sword with emblems. Trench Art

1937 Coronation - Imperial mantle of cloth of gold
The magnificent vestment, the Imperial mantle donned by King George VI following his anointing in the Coronation ceremony, seen as it was nearing completion at the Royal School of Needlework

Coronation of King Henry IV
An impression of part of the Coronation procession at the time of King Henry IV (1366 - 1413), showing knightly attendants in procession up the nave bearing the mace, the helmet

Anniversary Cake. With Good Luck Emblems Date: 1936

Two Studies Seated Male Nude Back 1596-1602
Artokoloro

New York: Reception of Lt. -Com. Gorringe, U. s. N. by Anglo-Saxon Lodge, No. 137, F
New York: Reception of Lt.-Com. Gorringe, U.s.N. by Anglo-Saxon Lodge, No. 137, F. and A. M. Brooklyn, September 1St. Explaining the Masonic Emblems on the Egyptian Obelisk

Hermes, 1555 (engraving)
XJF486487 Hermes, 1555 (engraving) by Bonasone, Giulio (c.1498-c.1580); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration from Achillis Bocchii Bonon)

Horsemen carrying Banners of the Hanseatic League and of Towns belonging to the League
KW428447 Horsemen carrying Banners of the Hanseatic League and of Towns belonging to the League, 16th Century, 1886 (colour litho) by Heins

Columbarium puellarum from Proscenium vitae humanae Sive Emblematum secularium
XJF365343 Columbarium puellarum from Proscenium vitae humanae Sive Emblematum secularium by Theodore de Bry, 1627 (engraving) by Bry

Richard II Presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist
BAL3028 Richard II Presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund, c.1395-99 (egg tempera on oak) by Master of the Wilton Diptych

The Lion and the Unicorn, from of Old Mother Gooses Rhymes and Tales
KW265448 The Lion and the Unicorn, from of Old Mother Gooses Rhymes and Tales, published by Frederick Warne & Co. c.1890s (chromolitho) by Haslewood

Fame, Eternity and Writing Arts, Pieter van Gunst, 1731

Allegory of art, print maker: Hendrick Goltzius workshop of, Hendrick Goltzius, Claes Jansz. Visscher II, 1586 - 1590 and or 1596 - 1652

Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert, Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, Theodorus Schrevelius, 1611

Personification of poetry, Arnold Houbraken, 1710 - 1719

Personification of painting on a pedestal, Arnold Houbraken, Nicolaes de Vries, 1688 - 1700

Personification of music, Arnold Houbraken, 1710 - 1719

Personification of architecture, print maker: Arnold Houbraken, Leonard Schenk, 1710 - 1719

The Death personified holding a cloth on which the series title in ten lines in Dutch, three putti, one with painters palette, the putto left overpowers a small satyr

Personification of painting, Anonymous, Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), 1612 - 1652

Allegory of the interior of the Pantheon in Rome, Italy, as a Christian church by Pope Boniface IV, Gommarus Wouters, Francis Platel du Plateau, Reverenda Camera Apostolica Roma, 1689

Allegory of art, Hendrick Goltzius, 1586 - 1590

Pictura flanked by two putti, Jacob Ernst Marcus, 1801

Christ as the Man of Sorrows (tempera on panel)
XKH148217 Christ as the Man of Sorrows (tempera on panel) by Mostaert, Jan (c.1475-c.1555); 44.2x33.4 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Netherlandish, out of copyright

Allegory of Justice as patron of the arts, Gilles Demarteau, 1732 - 1776

1203365; out of copyright

Picture frame with an elongated cartouche with rounded sides, Theodor de Bry, 1593

Prince Genji, two women and a girl sitting around large container with toys; in room with folding screen which cranes, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Watanabe Shoemon

Prince Genji, an elegantly dressed woman and a maid, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon, 1851 - 1853

Five women sitting with hand lanterns, watching Prince Genji against a background of a flowering tree and a bird, Japanese print, Utagawa, Hama Yahei, Magome Kageyu, 1849 - 1853

Prince Genji and man in big chest, looking at a woman sitting behind folding screen, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Mera Taichiro, Murata Heiemon, 1847 - 1850

Prince Genji with fan standing at a well, looking at a woman sitting on veranda of first floor; a servant girl with sword in right hand watches, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Mera Taichiro

Elegantly dressed man standing on porch, looking at woman sitting in room with koto, Japanese stringed instrument, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon, 1851 - 1853

Prince Genji sitting on a rug in a room, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Watanabe Shoemon, 1849 - 1850

Prince Genji leaning over a low cabinet and looking at a woman with an album in her hands, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Watanabe Shoemon, 1849 - 1850

Man sitting with bowl in hand, looking at woman in purple kimono standing in closet, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon, 1851 - 1853

Elegantly dressed man and woman sitting on pillow, looking at woman playing the koto (Japanese stringed instrument); in the background view on a garden with stone lantern and flowering trees

Woman with broom in snowy garden, behind her a woman and a man can be seen in a room, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon, 1852

Three women in a rowing boat sailing through tunnel; in the background a second rowing boat and landscape with flowering trees, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro

Man talking with squatting woman, behind them a flowering tree and water can be seen, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Kinugasa Fusajiro, Murata Heiemon, 1851 - 1853

Standing woman and man sitting on pillow, in the background a screen with painting of a phoenix, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Mera Taichiro, Murata Heiemon, 1847 - 1850

Man sitting on porch, pulling up his shoes, looking at woman in pink kimono with pattern of irises; a second woman looking on between the sliding doors, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa

Prince Genji on a veranda with two women, Japanese print, Kunisada (I), Utagawa, Mera Taichiro, Murata Heiemon, 1847 - 1850

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