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Daylight Raid from my Studio Window, July

"Daylight Raid from my Studio Window, 7 July 1917. Lavery, Sir John 1856-1941. From 1929 catalogue card:If the screen across the lower part of the window be examined it will be seen that Lady Lavery is faking a religious effigy. The dark pigment has obscured this, but the impasto of the under-painting is quite definitive."

© National Museums NI / MARY EVANS

The Ghost Story by Alfred Bestall

A family sit in the dark by a blazing fire, rigid with fear while listening to a ghost story told by an aged relative. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, the sceptre of a medieval knight, looms over them with interest. Illustration by Alfred Bestall, who is best-known for drawing Rupert Bear but who contributed a number of illustrations to The Tatler during the 1930s. Date: 1930

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10548306

Europe at night, satellite image

Europe at night, satellite image. City lights (yellow) show areas of dense population. There are few lights in North Africa (bottom) and the Arctic (top) since they are more sparsely populated. This image was produced by combining data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and NOAA's POES satellites

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