Future Collection (#2)

The exit of the opera in the year 2000 (Le Sortie de l opera en l an 2000). Artist: Robida, Albert (1848-1926)
The exit of the opera in the year 2000 (Le Sortie de l opera en l an 2000). Private Collection

Self-Portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary, 1906. Found in the collection of Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum

The Aeroplane of the Future, 1927. From The Wonder Book of Aircraft, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, London & Melbourne, 1927]

A City of the Future, 1927. From The Wonder Book of Aircraft, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, London & Melbourne, 1927]

Your Fortune - Fortells a letter which contains a proposal, you will accept & good fortune will follow you, c1906. A Fortune Teller reading tea leaves. [J. Welch & Sons, Portsmouth, c1906]

Romulus consulting the Augury, 1852. Artist: John Leech
Romulus consulting the Augury, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

The youth of Louis XIV, c1920s

The Fortune Teller, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 4th June 1892

Holy Family with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, 1515-1530. Artist: Lodovico Mazzolini
Holy Family with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, 1515-1530. St Nicholas kneels in front of the infant Jesus who is eating cherries, the fruit of Paradise, which have been given to him by St Joseph

Anastasis, fresco in the parekklesion of Church of Christ in Chora, c1310-c1320. Christ, surrounded by mandorla, helps Adam and Eve from their graves watched by St John the Baptist and David

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist ( The Garvagh Madonna ), c1509-1510. Artist: Raphael
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist ( The Garvagh Madonna ), c1509-1510. Jesus takes a pink from the hand of John the Baptist clothed in an animal skin. From the National Gallery, London

Babylonian clay model of a sheeps lung
Clay model of a lung, containing omens, Late Babylonian, 7th Century BC, from Ninevah. Used by baru-priests to teach their students its anatomy and its significance in foretelling the future

Chiromancy: Lines of the closed hand from Andre Corvo L Art de Chyromance Lyons c1545

Chiromancy, 1617-1619. Title page of a chapter on chiromancy from Robert Fludds Utriusque cosmi...historia, showing the lines of the hand. (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Chiromancy: Country girl having her hand read by a fortune teller who sees misfortunes ahead
Chiromancy: Country girl having her hand read by an itinerant fortune teller who sees misfortunes ahead

Astrologers preparing a horoscope, 1617-1619. From the title page of section on casting horoscopes in Utriusque cosmi historia, Oppenheim, [1617-19]

Environmental pollution, 1895. Pollution caused by heavy chemical industry, with birds and fishes struggling to survive. In the late 19th century industrial pollution was a growing problem

An idea of the world as it would be in 1953, 1883. A young lady paying calls by personal airship among maze of telegraph and telephone wires. From Le Vingtieme Siecle (the 20th Century) by A Robida

Madonna and Child, late 15th / early 16th century. Artist: Bramantino
Madonna and Child, late 15th/early 16th century

Bernard Abattia, 16th century French astrologer, 1572. Portrait from his Prognostication sur le marriage de Henry, roy de Navarre, et de Marguerite de France. (Paris, 1572)

Vision of an intellectual family in the 1950s, 1883
Vision of an intellectual family in the 1950s. Anticipated result of selective breeding in Man. From A. Robida Le Vingtieme Siecle, Paris, 1883

Cray-2 supercomputer. NASA colour photograph

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