Friday, 3 October 2014

A School for Girls in the Mountains of Abruzzo








Reception by the Emperor and Empress of the Siamese Ambassadors at the Palace of Fontainebleu

Norwegian Peasants Returning from Haying



 View of Villa Strauss

Panoramic view of Constantinople from the tower of Galata


A School for Girls in the Mountains of Abruzzo


Returning to the Sultan Abdulaziz after the Inauguration

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States who the newspaper calls M Lincoln. 
Maybe the French newspaper writer thought he heard - 'Eh Bah...* Em! Lincoln!' then then wrote 'M Lincoln'
*Saying 'Eh bah oui' is French slang and is similar to 'Well, yeah...'

Types and Costumes of the Inhabitants of Caprera



Beijing has a street in the neighborhood We Wai Lo Tching

Fragments




Thursday, 2 October 2014

Women of the Sultan

The market day in an English village

Table of Contents




Table of Prints



'Charlotte Corday' by Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry 1860


Death of Count Cavour - The Death Room

Mrs Petipa in the Ballet 'Walking Innocent'

The Girl and Lamb

Imperial hunts in the forest of Fontainbleu


Within the Banvais family in Monomotapa (Africa)




Women of the Sultan in the interior of the Seraglio









Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Fire at the Theatre

'The King and Queen of Naples at a battery by the sea - 22 January 1861'




'Disembarkation of the King and Queen of Naples at Terracina - 14 February 1861'



Augustin Eugène Scribe, a French playwright

Still so gently o'er me stealing, Mem'ry will bring back the feeling, Spite of all my grief revealing That I love thee, — that I dearly love thee still.Augustin Eugène Scribe



'Jeremie weeping over the ruins of Jerusalem'

'The Idle Servant' by Nicolaes Maes 1655 


'A Japanese woman and her daughter'






'Public rejoicings at Saint Petersboug. on the occasion of the abolition of slavery'








'Spanish merchant selling flowers'




'Fire at the Theatre of Barcelona'

'The farewell of Romeo and Juliet'