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The best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, 2
We have selected three of the best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, a nineteenth-century illustrated newspaper and rich source of remarkable engravings. The first picture shows autumn in London. An Autumn...
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The best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, 83
We have selected three of the best pictures from ‘The Graphic’, a nineteenth-century illustrated newspaper and rich source of remarkable engravings. The first picture shows a model estate for working...
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Nicolo Paganini – had he sold his soul to the devil?
This clever portrait of Nicolo Paganini, shows the great composer and virtuoso violinist fiddling away while a diabolical grotesque grins in the background. This is an allusion to the rumour that the...
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The Pequod, Captain Ahab’s battered whaling ship
Captain Ahab’s ship, the Pequod, is pictured in this breezy but slightly surreal illustration for Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby-Dick. We may just discern the silhouetted figure of tormented...
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Michel De Notre Dame – better known as Nostradamus
This is a compelling and rather disturbing picture of Michel De Notre Dame – better known to the world as Nostradamus – who gained a fantastic reputation as a man who could foretell the future. It is...
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The Burial of Tutankhamun
This highly unusual painting illustrates the elaborate rituals which accompanied the burial of Tutankhamun, the most famous of the Egyptian pharaohs. It pictures the moments which sealed off forever...
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Prester John by John Buchan
Prester John is an adventure novel by John Buchan set in Victorian Africa at the time of the Zulu Wars. Its hero, a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd, is an early version of his better known...
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 12
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows the opening of the first French railway, 1832....
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 38
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows the sacrifice of Iphigenia. The sacrifice of...
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 75
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows Cardinal Richelieu sending Francois de...
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