Exmoor, North Devon, Somerset, landscape, scenery, National Park, National Trust, holiday, vacation, David Young, Exmoor, National Park, North Somerset, South West England, UK, tourism; holiday; vacation; travel; SW England; West Country; Westcountry; English; British; Britain; Great Britain; GB; United Kingdom, pony, ponies, young animal, moor, moorland, hill, gorse, mane, horse, equine
?Interior of the Mosque of Khosne Ahmed el-Bordeyny. Chromolithograph after Emile Prisse d'Avennes, (1807-1879) French architect, engineer and orientalist. Two men at prayer.
Edward C Compton (1854-1918) English actor-manager who specialised in touring the English provinces with plays by Shakespeare, Sheridan and Goldsmith. Compton as Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. Photogravure c1895.
St Pauls St Pauls St Pauls, restaurant, table chair breakfast sunny summer, city, view, background, square courtyard, relaxed empty, visit, landmark, church place of worship bombed sir Christopher wren architect, alleyway, shops shopping
?Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776': Benjamin Franklin, left, John Adams meeting at Thomas Jefferson's, standing, lodgings in Philadelphia to study a draft of the document. After the painting by J.L.G. Ferris (1863-1930)
Wilhelm II (1859-1941) Emperor of Germany 1888-1918. Photographic portrait published in London in 1887 before his father began his brief reign as Frederick II. From Two Royal Lives by Dorothea Roberts (London, 1887). Woodburytype.
?St James'. Tempera on panel. Cosimo Tura (c1430-1495) Italian Early-Renaissance (Quattrocento) painter. St James the Great (St James the Apostle, St James of Compostello) enthroned, holding pilgrim staff and right hand raised in blessing.
Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield (1859-1947) English political economist and social reformer. Instrumental in the founding of the London School of Economics. Photograph published London c1890. Woodburytype.
Daniel, one of four great Hebrew prophets, l cast into the Lions' den by Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadrezzar) king of Babylon who is calling down '..is thy God
?Mardi Gras', 1888. Oil on canvas. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) French Post-Impressionist painter. Two figures dressed as the Commedia dell'arte characters Harlequin and Pierrot.?
Elizabeth Lynn Linton (1822-1898) English novelist, writer, journalist and champion of women's rights. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.
John Burns (1858-1943) English Labour (socialist) politician. Member of Parliament for Battersea, London, 1892. The first working-class member of a British Cabinet. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph
Charles Russell, first Baron Russell of Killowen (1832-1900) English lawyer. Lord Chief Justice of England from 1894. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.
Louisiana, New Orleans, Port of New Orleans, Riverwalk Marketplace, Bon Fete on the River, entertainment, riverfront mall, food court, casual dining, eating, fast food restaurant, table, Black, woman, girlfriends,
George V (1865-1935) King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1910. Here before the death of his grandmother Queen Victoria, when he was known as Prince George of Wales. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.
COMMON FROG - Rana temporaria, nuptial clasp, on pool side bank, female carries male, male with clasper warts for holding female, brown, green, cold blooded, hopping, slimy smooth skin, gardeners friend, garden pond, amphibian, worm, slug and insect eater, frog spawn layer, tadpole, metamorphosis, Andy Purcell
?La Richesse' c1640. Oil on canvas. Allegorical painting by Simon Vouet (1590-1649) French Baroque painter. Winged figure with two putti, one of them offering her pearls, silver and gold.
The Stamp Office, Somerset House, London. Tax is being paid on legal documents which are then endorsed or 'stamped' using the iron screw stamping presses in the left foreground. Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin for The Microcosm of London by William Henry Pyne and William Combe (London, 1808-1811). Aquatint.
