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Format Portrait Collection (#13)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Bandit

Bandit
circa 1849: A Californian gold miner. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Military Weapons

Military Weapons
April 1862: Artillery and cannon balls in Virginia in preparation for the campaign of 1862. (Photo by Mathew Brady/Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: The Royal George

The Royal George
1757: The British naval vessel Royal George lying off Deptford. She sank at Spithead in 1782 with the loss of around 800 lives. Original Artist: By John Cleveley the Elder

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Lawn Tennis

Lawn Tennis
1881: Two couples meet for a friendly game of lawn tennis. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley
English novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963). (Photo by Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Fuchsia

Fuchsia
circa 1880: A fuchsia, Mrs Rundell, with orange calyx and red petals. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Chinaman

Chinaman
circa 1800: A Chinese man wearing his hair in a long plait, and carrying a fan. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Courting Couple

Courting Couple
circa 1860: A courting couple of the 1860 s. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Circle Of Serpents

Circle Of Serpents
The other two looked on, exclaiming Ah! How does thou change, Agnello!. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XXV of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: The Witches Frolic

The Witches Frolic
A page of verses from The Witches Frolic by English cleric and humorous writer Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), a.k.a. Thomas Ingoldsby, published 1888

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) Hungarian composer born in Raiding. He played in public at the age of nine, and then went to study in Vienna

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Pilgrims Progress

Pilgrims Progress
circa 1875: Angels giving the roll to Christian. From John Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Frater Mendicans

Frater Mendicans
circa 1800: A mendicant monk, of an order which forbids its followers to own property. Instead the monks have to beg for alms in order to survive

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Gas Strike

Gas Strike
Businesses, pubs and theatres having to use candles and torches during the gas strike. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Perinis Planetarium

Perinis Planetarium
circa 1860: An astronomer giving a lecture at Signor Perinis planetarium. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle
September 1948: British aeronautical engineer Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996), who patented the basic design for the turbojet engine, wearing his RAF uniform. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: In The Bushes

In The Bushes
circa 1905: Two male nudes in a leafy setting. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Boudoir

Boudoir
circa 1900: Interior of a turn of the century bedroom. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Princes Skating Rink

Princes Skating Rink
Skaters take to the ice at Princes Skating Rink, London, 1909. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Hideous Harpies

Hideous Harpies
Virgil leads the author through a wood filled with Harpies and miserable souls transformed into trees. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XIII of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: D Alberts Quadrille

D Alberts Quadrille
circa 1775: The cover of a score for the Court of St James, a quadrille by composer Charles d Albert (1864 - 1932). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Firework Night

Firework Night
22nd October 1870: Crowds gather to watch a firework display at the Crystal Palace, London. One man lounges indolently atop the sphinx, smoking a pipe. Published in the Graphic, 22nd October 1870

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Queens Armoury

Queens Armoury
circa 1850: A Yeoman or beefeater shows a group of tourists some of the exhibits on display in Queen Elizabeths Armoury, in the Tower of London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Flying Machine

Flying Machine
circa 1850: American flying machine guided by moveable wooden vanes or sails and governed by ropes from where the travellers are seated. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Belt Driven

Belt Driven
1850: Belt-driven machine with cogwheel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp
1847: An illustration by William Makepeace Thackery from the first edition of Vanity Fair. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Louis XVI Chair

Louis XVI Chair
1877: A fringed drawing room chair from the reign of King Louis XVI of France. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: City Of Music

City Of Music
circa 1840: The gothic Cathedral of St Stephen in Vienna with its 370 ft steeple, which so impressed Liszt. Vienna is the city where young Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Lohengrin

Lohengrin
1860: Illustration to Wagners opera Lohengrin by J. Schorr von Carolsfeld. Showing Lohengrin, son of Parsifal, talking to a swan by the side of a small boat which is to take him to Antwerp to win

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Pleased To Meet You

Pleased To Meet You
1878: A little girl in a pinafore shakes hands with a butler in the butlers pantry. Every Girls Annual - pub. 1878 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFormat Portrait Collection: Street Arab

Street Arab
1856: A street arab waiting for admission to the Belvedere Crescent Reformatory. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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