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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), 1865. Creator: Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpincon?), 1865.

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'The Morning of Sedgemoor, 1685', 1905, (1944). Creator: Edgar Bundy

'The Morning of Sedgemoor, 1685', 1905, (1944). Soldiers sleeping in piles of hay in a barn. The Battle of Sedgmoor took place on 6 July 1685 at Westonzoyland near Bridgwater in Somerset. It was the final battle of the Monmouth Rebellion and followed a series of skirmishes around south-west England between the forces of James Scott, 1st James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and troops loyal to James II. Victory went to the royalists and about 500 prisoners fell into their hands. Monmouth escaped from the battlefield but was later captured and taken to London for trial and execution. Painting made in 1905, in the Tate Gallery, London. From "Battlefields in Britain', by C. V. Wedgwood. [Collins, London, 1944]

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'Ski Shoes For Use with Finnesko', c1910–1913, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting

'Ski Shoes For Use with Finnesko, (Devised by Lt. Gran and made by P.O. Evans)', c1910–1913, (1913). Finnesko - boots of tanned reindeer skin with the hair on the outside. The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) left London on 1 June 1910 bound for the South Pole. The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913), included a geologist, a zoologist, a surgeon, a photographer, an engineer, a ski expert, a meteorologist and a physicist among others. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901-04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. Scott, accompanied by Dr Edward Wilson, Captain Lawrence Oates, Lieutenant Henry Bowers and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Delayed by blizzards, and running out of supplies, Scott and the remainder of his team died at the end of March. Their bodies and diaries were found eight months later. From Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I. [Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1913]

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