Images Dated 7th June 2019

Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, . Creator: Unknown

Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, late 19th century. Female weaver at a loom at Merton Abbey Mills in south London. The Abbey buildings were renovated and adapted for textile printing at the beginning of the 19th century, and acquired by the artist and textile designer William Morris (1834-1896) in 1881. Morris had started to weave his first carpets at Kelmscott House, his home in Hammersmith. From "Modern Art Monographs"

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The Battle of Agincourt, 1773. Creator: William Walker

The Battle of Agincourt, 1773. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). The Battle of Agincourt in of 1415 of the Hundred Years War, between Henry V of England and Charles VI of France whose army was commanded by Constable Charles d'Albret saw an English victory with great loss of life on both sides. From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]

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Paul and Amalie Taglioni, 1839, (1943). Creator: Franz Kruger

Paul and Amalie Taglioni, 1839, (1943). Portrait of Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet master Paul Taglioni (1808-1884) and his wife Amalie (1803-1881), also a dancer. Drawing in the Kupferstichkabinett, Staatlichen Museen, Berlin. From "Europaische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zurich, 1943]

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