Written Collection (#33)

Napoleon Iii / Moloch 82
NAPOLEON III with Sedan - the battle which finally destroyed him - written on his brow, and a dagger in his back

Writing Example / Rossini
A letter of thanks from the Italian composer to a friend, written in French

Murasaki Shikibu
MURASAKI SHIKIBU, Japanese courtier and writer, author of the classic Genji Monagatari (Tales of Genji) generally regarded as the first novel ever written

Play / Galsworthy / Loyalty
De Levis accuses Dancy of being a thief in the play written by John Galsworthy, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932

Play / Corneille / Le Cid
Rodrigo and donna Jimena in the play written by the French playwright Pierre Corneille

American Notes / Dickens
The Gold Digger. A character from the chronicle of Dickens first American visit in 1842 which was written largely from letters sent home to his friend John Forster

Alexei Surkov
ALEXEI SURKOV Russian poet and journalist, correspondent during the Patriotic War : his poetry written during the war made him extremely popular

Art Nouveau Design
It could be a menu, it could be a billet-doux, but I think its most probably a poem written out by its author in a rather flamboyant style. The design is quite of its time

Ancient Palestine Scroll
An ancient Palestinian scroll of the Pentateuch, (the first five books of the Bible, known as the Torah to the Jews) said to have been written by Eleazar, the son of Aaron

The Turkish Spy 17th C
MAHMUT THE TURKISH SPY who is said to have written letters from Paris between 1637 and 1682 to his people, discussing political and cultural subjects

Drunken Blind Granny
Blind Granny: a half blind, drunken nuisance who would beg by using her paricularly long tongue to wash her blind eye then spend the money on drink. Poems were written about her!

Calais Recaptured
The duc de Guise re-captures Calais from the English : Mary Tudor will go to her grave with the name of the town written on her heart

Napoleon 1793 Supper
NAPOLEON in 1793 at the Supper of Beaucaire where he developed his political ideas in a conversation subsequently written up as a book

Music Cover / Crinoline
THE CRINOLINE SCHOTTISCHE: a piece of music probably written in 1857 to mark the advent of the cage crinoline. A woman in a crinoline walks down the street

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