Founders Collection (#3)

Founders of the Royal Aero Club
The founders of the Royal Aero Club; from left to right are - Mrs Nicholls, the C. S. Rolls and Mr Hedges Butler. Mrs Nicholl was the first woman to be a member of the club

Higashi Honganji Temple, the Eastern Temple of the Original Vow, in Kyoto, Japan
Founders Hall Gate at Higashi Honganji Temple, the Eastern Temple of the Original Vow, in Kyoto, Japan

Francis Herbert Wenham (1824-1908)
Francis Herbert Wenham, 1824-1908, one of the founders of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1866. Date: 1908

Fountain, monument and pillar, Kiev, Ukraine
View of a fountain in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) with a monument to the legendary founders of the city of Kiev, the three brothers Kyi (also Kiy, Kij or Kyj)

Romulus & Remus Fountain, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy
View of the Romulus and Remus Fountain (Fontana della Dea Roma) in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy. The fountain represents the goddess Dea Roma armed with lance and helmet

Jean-Francois Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school. The Gleaners, 1857. Musee d Orsay, Paris

Ignatius Loyola, born Inigo Lopez de Recalde (1491-1556) Spanish soldier and, with St Francis Xavier (1506-1552) in 1534, one of the founders of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits

Founders Hall and Library - Girard College, Philadelphia, PA Date: circa 1910s

Spain. Galicia. Palas del Rey. Church of St. James. Painting
Spain. Galicia. Palas del Rey. Church of St. James (old monastery of Vilar de Donas). Paintings of the central apse. 14th century. Portraits of founders of the family Donas

Caricature of David James and Thomas Thorne
Caricature of David James (left, 1839-1893), English comic actor, and Thomas Thorne (right, 1841-1918), English actor and theatre manager, co-founders of the Vaudeville Theatre, London

Herschel / Mayall Daguerre
SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL Astronomer; one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society, seen here in old age Date: 1792 - 1871

Herschel / Iln 1871
SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL Astronomer; one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society, seen here in old age Date: 1792 - 1871

Scouts blindfold boxing in Ghana, West Africa
Scouts entertaining visitors with blindfold boxing, one of many activities at a Founders Day celebration in Ghana, West Africa

Founders Week Parade, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Founders Week Parade, 9 October 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The float shown represents the Old Ironsides (railway engines) of 1832. Date: 1908

Bells for Christ Church, Boston, Massachusetts
A chime of thirteen bells for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the foundry yard.The bells were manufactured by Henry N. Cooper and Co, of Boston. Date: 1860

Bronze figure of a Belgian infantryman, WW1
Bronze figure of a Belgian infantryman. Founders - Batardy Freres et Cie, Brussels, Belgian School

Founders of the Sportsmans Battalion
The organiser of the Sportsmans Battalion and her husband, the recruiting-officer-in-chief, Mr and Mrs Cunliffe Owen. Mrs Cunliffe Owen conceived the idea of raising the Sportsmans Battalion where

Puyo Robert Demachy Paul de Singly Model 1909
Artokoloro

Plan and perspective of B Vickers and Co. Brass Founders Atlas Brass Works, Saville Street East / Greystock Street
Scale [1 inch : 30 feet].Thomas A. Wilson, Architect and Surveyor, Sheffield.Original at Sheffield City Archives: WC/2074L

Broadsheet, celebrating, founders, Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero, shown, suit
Broadsheet celebrating one of the founders of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero, shown in a suit and top hat pointing to the phrases Que Si and Que No, Jose Guadalupe Posada (Mexican)

Drawings Prints, Print, Broadsheet, celebrating, founders, Mexican, Revolution, Francisco Madero
Drawings and Prints, Print, Broadsheet celebrating one of the founders of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero, shown in a suit and top hat pointing to the phrases Que Si and Que No, Publisher

Two Studies Man ca 1575 Black chalk recto rulings
Artokoloro

Saint Cajetan Thiene Holding Infant Jesus 1730-40
Artokoloro

Source Size = 3777 x 4994
Views at the Charter House

Biccherna of Good Government, 1344 (tempera on panel)
XIR444284 Biccherna of Good Government, 1344 (tempera on panel) by Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (1285-c.1348); Archivio di Stato, Siena, Italy; (add.info.: Le Bon Governement (Biccherna); ); Italian

2619180; out of copyright

Saint Joan of France, Adriaen Collaert, 1608

Saint Bruno, Albert Flamen, Jacques van Merlen, Lodewijk XIV (koning van Frankrijk), 1664

Saint William of Aquitaine, Adriaen Collaert, 1608

Columbus (1451-1506) Taking Possession, illustration from Tales of Travellers
KW222567 Columbus (1451-1506) Taking Possession, illustration from Tales of Travellers or A View of the World, published 1838 (litho) by English School

Oliver Goldsmith Chiselled on side of base, proper right: R
Oliver Goldsmith Chiselled on side of base, proper right: " R. A. Sc. | LONDON; proper left: " ELKINGTON & Co | FOUNDERS" Signed with chisel on side of base, proper right: " J. H

Edmund Burke Chiselled on side of base, proper left: ELKINGTON & Co | FOUNDERS"
Edmund Burke Chiselled on side of base, proper left: " ELKINGTON & Co | FOUNDERS" Signed and dated with chisel on side of base, proper right: " J. H. FOLEY. R. A

Kyoto, Japan - Founders Hall Gate of the Higashi Hongauji
Higashi Honganji (Eastern Temple of the Original Vow) - this card shows the Founders Hall Gate (Goei-do Mon), built in 1911. Date: circa 1910s

Luncheon given to the Wright brothers and Miss Katharine Wright at the Carlton Hotel, 3 May 1909, by Frank Hedges Butler, one of the founders of the Aero Club. Date: 1909

Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf. Detail from marble monument to the twin founders of Rome

Romulus and Remus the legendary twin founders of Rome being suckled by the she-wolf. Bronze c500 BC. Museo Capitolino, Rome

Thomas Willis (1621-1675) English physician. First in modern times to notice sweetish taste of diabetic urine in Diabetes mellitus. Studied brain and nervous system

Thomas Willis (1621-75) English physician. First in modern times to notice sweetish taste of diabetic urine in diabetes mellitus. Studied brain and nervous system

Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) French organic chemist and politician. Berthelot worked on explosives and dyes

John Wesley (1703-1791) and George Whitefield (1714-1770) English evangelists and founders of Methodism, urging sinners to turn from the Broad Way to hell

Ballet Rehearsal on the Set (1874) by Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917), French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (1774-1841) English mathematician and astronomer, born at Yaxley, Huntingdonshire, England. Mathematical master at the Woolwich Military College (1802-1841)

Most miraculous organ. Phrenology, the assessment of a subjects mental faculties by the study of the external conformation of the cranium. A phrenologist amazed by the head of his subject

Cottage at Wrington in north Somerset near Bristol, England, the birthplace of John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher and scientist, one of the founders of the Enlightenment

William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) British painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848). Appointed to the Order of Merit (1905)

Gerard Troost (1776-11850), Dutch-born American geologist and natural philosopher. Professor of chemistry, geology and mineralogy at the University of Nashville (1828)

Bust of Sir Peter Scott wet from rain, naturalist and founder of Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England, December

Baden-Powell with US scouting pioneers C016 / 8818
Baden-Powell with US scouting pioneers. Seated at centre is the British founder of the Boy Scouts movement, Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941)

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