Wing Collection (page 4)

Winged Putto Playing a Lute, 16th century. Artist: Fiorentino Rossi
Winged Putto Playing a Lute, 16th century. From the Ufizzi Gallery, Florence

The Three Ages of Man, allegory, late 16th century. Artist: Jacob de Backer
The Three Ages of Man, allegory, late 16th century. From the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Painting, unknown title, 17th century. Artist: Baldassare Franceschini
Painting, unknown title, 17th century

Jacob Fights the Angel, 1660. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Jacob Fights the Angel, 1660. From the Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Natterers bat (Myotis nattereri), 1828. From British Quadrupeds by William MacGillivray, one of the volumes in William Jardines Naturalists Library series. (Edinburgh, 1828)

Long-eared bat (Plectorus auritus), 1828. From British Quadrupeds by William MacGillivray, one of the volumes in William Jardines Naturalists Library series. (Edinburgh, 1828)

Pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus), 1828. From British Quadrupeds by William MacGillivray, one of the volumes in William Jardines Naturalists Library series. (Edinburgh, 1828)

Florence Nightingale watching a nurse at work, 1854. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War

Sassanid plaque showing a monster
A Sassanid plaque showing the foreparts of a winged monster in high relief from Persia. From the British Museums collection

Assyrian relief of a genie protector, from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad
Assyrian relief of a genie protector with a bucket and a cedar cone, from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad. From the British Museums collection

Limestone relief of a scarab beetle and vulture wings under a disk of the sun, Edfu, Egypt

Pectoral jewel from the treasure of Tutankhamun, Ancient Egyptian, c1325 BC. A pectoral jewel showing Horus, the falcon-headed god, crowned with a sun disc (aten) with an ankh, the symbol of life

Elijah goes into wilderness and asks to die, but an angel comes and bids him arise and eat, 1866. From the Bible (1 Kings 19.5)

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of Heaven... c1885. From the Bible (Revelation XXIV 6, 7)

Ethopian prayer book showing an angel with a sword and two men, possibly priests, 19th century

Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, c1860. An angel with a flaming sword supervises the expulsion of Adam and Eve, wearing aprons of fig leaves, from Paradise

Angel bringing a letter from God to Christiana, c1850. Angel named Secret bringing a letter from the Merciful One to Christiana, inviting her and her children to join Christian in his, Gods presence

The Hermetic Androgyne, late 17th century. Miniature from a German manuscript. King=Sun=Gold, Queen=Moon=Silver, Dragon=Mercury=Volatility and so transmutation

Ahura Mazda, Persepolis, c500 BC
Ahura Mazda (c-500). Winged symbol of Ahura Mazda (Ormazd, Ormuzd, Ohrmazd), Lord of Wisdom, supreme god of the Zorastrian (Zarathustrian) religion of Persia

Pectoral showing the god Horus, Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty, c1325 BC. A pectoral jewel of gold, semi-precious stone and faience showing Horus, the falcon-headed god

Angel of the Lord appearing to Elijah on the mountain, 1804
Angel of the Lord appearing to Elijah on the mountain and telling him not to be afraid and to go down to the king, 1804. Bible II Kings I:15

Wealth, 1640. Artist: Simon Vouet
Wealth, 1640. A large serpentine figure of a woman draped in fabric is seated in front of an imposing architectural background

Daedalus and Icaros fitted with their wings. According to legend, in order to escape from Crete, Daedalus made wings of wax and feathers for himself and his son

Scene from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream. Titania Sleeps, from Act II, scene 2

Old Father Time Carried by Time, 1881
Old Father Time carried by Time, 1881. Earth travels through space, continually turning on its axis

Old Father Time sharpening his scythe, 1891
Old Father Time sharpening his scythe. Headpiece from The English Illustrated Magazine, London, 1891

Old Father Time with his scythe, carrying in the New Year, 1870

The Messenger of Peace, 1887. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Messenger of Peace, 1887. The radical Liberal, Joseph Chamberlain, is here the Messenger of Peace. He had become the Conservatives Colonial Secretary

Peace, 1862. At the beginning of May 1862, the Duke of Cambridge, representing the recently widowed Queen Victoria, opened the second International Exhibition at Brompton

Evolution of the airfoil, 1908-1944. Creator: Unknown
Evolution of the airfoil, 1908-1944. Diagrams showing the historical evolution of airfoil sections. The last two shapes are low-drag sections designed to have laminar flow over 60 to 70 percent of

The worlds largest wind tunnel, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, USA, 1947. 40 x 80 foot wind tunnel which, when built, was the worlds largest

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