Images Dated 7th August 2008 (page 2)

Viscount Cecil, British statesman, 1935. Artist: Edmond Xavier Kapp
Viscount Cecil, British statesman, 1935. Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood was a delegate to the League of Nations

Study for Baron Aloisi, Italian statesman, 1935. Artist: Edmond Xavier Kapp
Study for Baron Aloisi, Italian statesman, 1935. Baron Pompeo Aloisi was a delegate to the League of Nations. A print from The New Statesman and Nation, 16th November 1935

Bedjironde Tecle Hawariate, Ethiopian statesman, 1935. Artist: Edmond Xavier Kapp
Bedjironde Tecle Hawariate, Ethiopian statesman, 1935. Tecle Hawariate was an Ethiopian delegate to the 16th and 19th Assemblies of the League of Nations

Fire engine, 1820. Artist: J & T Bartlett
Fire engine, 1820

A story of cruel Frederick

Carlotta Grisi in La Peri, 19th century. Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi performed the dual role of Peri and Leila in La Peri in 1843

Performance of The Gay Gordons, c1907. Misss Fairbrother as Charlotte Siddons, AW Baskcome as Edmund Siddons, Fred Emney as Nervy Nat

Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks in The Gay Gordons, c1907. Terriss as Peggy Quainton and Hicks as Angus Graeme. Hicks and Terriss married in 1893

Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in The Merry Widow, c1907. Elsie as Sonia (the Merry Widow) and Coyne as Prince Danilo. The English adaptation of Franz Lehars operetta, with lyrics by Adrian Ross

Julia Neilson and Fred Terry in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Julia Neilson and Fred Terry in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Terry and Neilson starred in the play, set during the French Revolution, at Londons New Theatre in 1905

Mabel Hackney and Laurence Irving, 1907. Artist: J Beagles & Co
Mabel Hackney and Laurence Irving, 1907. The son of the actor and theatre manager Henry Irving, Laurence Irving was a dramatist and novelist. He married Mabel Hackney, an actress

Miss Lily Elsie and Mr George Graves in The Merry Widow, 20th century
Lily Elsie and George Graves in The Merry Widow, c1907. Elsie as Sonia, and Graves as Baron Popoff. Allow me to escort you

The Scarlet Pimpernel, 20th century. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Scene from The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Julia Neilson, Fred Terry, Horace Hodges, Malcolm Cherry and Alfred Kendrick. The play, set during the French Revolution

Julia Neilson and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Julia Neilson and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Neilson and Hodges starred with Fred Terry in the play, set during the French Revolution, at Londons New Theatre in 1905

Julia Neilson, Fred Terry and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Julia Neilson, Fred Terry and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. The play, set during the French Revolution, opened at Londons New Theatre in January 1905

Three young women, photographed in Gales Studios, early 20th century

Scene from Quality Street, 1902. Artist: Bassano Studio
Scene from Quality Street, 1902. Seymour Hicks as Dr Valentine Brown in search of grey hairs in JM Barries play

Brigitte Helm and Karl Ludwig Diehl, German film actors, 1930s

Paula Wessely and Willi Forst, Austrian film actors, 1934. Wessely and Forst starring as Grand Duchess Marie Louise and Franz, Duke of Modena in So endete eine Liebe (So Ended a Great Love)

Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and film star, 20th century

Gustav Diessl, Austrian artist, and film and stage actor, 20th century. Artist: Sandau
Gustav Diessl, Austrian artist, and film and stage actor, 20th century. Diessl is best remembered for his role in the mountaineering drama The White Hell of Piz Palu (1929)

Performance of Richard Wagners opera Lohengrin (act III, scene III), 1907. Artist: Schwalb
Performance of Richard Wagners opera Lohengrin (act III, scene III), 1907. On distant shore to mortal feet forbidden. Wagner wrote Lohengrin in 1848

Performance of Jedermann, Salzburg Festival, Austria, 20th century. Artist: Ernst Maier
Performance of Jedermann, Salzburg Festival, Austria, 20th century. Jedermann is an adaptation by Austrian playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal of Everyman

Commander Wilmot, of HMS Euryalus, 1863. Wilmot was second-in-command of the Euryalus, flagship of the British squadron at the bombardment of the Japanese port of Kagoshima in August 1863

Captain Josling, of HMS Euryalus, 1863. Josling commanded the Euryalus, flagship of the British squadron at the bombardment of the Japanese port of Kagoshima in August 1863

Envoys of the Japanese Prince of Nagato paying the indemnity for the affair of Simonosaki, 1865
The envoys of the Japanese Prince of Nagato paying the indemnity for the affair of Simonosaki, 1865. The narrow Shimonoseki Strait in Japan was controlled by the Prince of Nagato and the Choshu clan

Custom-House Officer, Japan, 19th century

The merchants of the ward, New Years festival procession at Yokohama, Japan, 1872. A print from The Illustrated London News, 13th January 1872

Girls dressed as boys, New Years festival procession at Yokohama, Japan, 1872. A print from The Illustrated London News, 13th January 1872

English and Russian burial-ground, at Nagasaki, secured by treaty, November 1855, (1856). A print from The Illustrated London News, 26th January 1856

Japanese escort officers, 1874. A print from The Illustrated London News, 3rd October 1874

Street in Hakodate, and funeral procession, Japan, 1856. A print from The Illustrated London News, 26th January 1856

The bombarment by the Royal Navy of the harbour of Kagoshima, Japan, 1863. The British subjected the city of Kagoshima to a naval bombardment in August 1863 after the government of the province of

Japanese soldiers in Yokohama, Japan, 1865. A print from The Illustrated London News, 4th February 1865

The new levy of Japanese infantry, 19th century

Japanese officers going to pay visits of congratulation, Japan, 1865. A print from The Illustrated London News, 15th July 1865

Buying camlets in a shop, Yokohama, Japan, 1865. A print from The Illustrated London News, 7th October 1865

The Royal Park, Tokyo, Japan, 1889. A print from The Illustrated London News, 6th July 1889

Japanese game of battledore and shuttlecock in the streets of Yokohama, 1865. New Years Day in Japan. A print from The Illustrated London News, 15th July 1865

Japanese governors house, at Nagasaki, Japan, 1855. A print from The Illustrated London News, 13th January 1855

Westland Whirlwind, 1941. The twin-engined Whirlwind was one of the fastest and most heavily armed fighters when it first flew in 1938

Bristol Blenheim Mk IVF, 1941. Initailly conceived as a light bomber, the Blenheim was successfully converted into a long-range and night fighter aircraft

Boulton Paul Defiant I, 1941. The Defiant saw service early in World War II, notably with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France

Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, 1941. The iconic British Second World War fighter was designed by Reginald Mitchell. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb, 1941. Artist: Chas Brown
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb, 1941. The iconic British Second World War fighter was designed by Reginald Mitchell. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine

Specimens of patination in Britain, 1926

Sharp pointed implements, from Henley, Oxfordshire, 1926. A print from A Guide to Antiquities of the Stone Age, third edition, British Museum, Oxford University Press, 1926

Point of mammoth tusk carved with reindeer, from Montastruc, Bruniquel, France, 1926. A print from A Guide to Antiquities of the Stone Age, third edition, British Museum, Oxford University Press, 1926

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