Fabulous Gallery

Vietnam - Hai Phong - Woman with a fabulous wide-brimmed hat

Vietnam - Hai Phong - Pretty woman wearing a fabulous wide-brimmed hat with tassels and a handy holding strap! Date: 1908

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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English Cathedrals - Knocker, Durham Cathedral

English Cathedrals - Knocker, Durham Cathedral - Fabulous Monster door Knocker. Part of Box 144 Boswell Collection - English Cathedrals. The Sanctuary Knocker or hagoday is an ornamental knocker on the door of a cathedral. Under medieval English common law, these instruments supposedly afforded the right of asylum to anybody who touched them. Examples of Sanctuary Knockers can be found on Durham Cathedral,( the St. Nicholas church in Gloucester and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon) . By 1623, the laws permitting church sanctuary had been overturned by parliament. Date: circa 1900

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

Mythical peacock with a woman's head, Hyderabad, c.1750 (opaque w/c & gold on paper)

3964116 Mythical peacock with a woman's head, Hyderabad, c.1750 (opaque w/c & gold on paper) by Indian School, (18th century); 20.9x11.7 cm; San Diego Museum of Art, USA; (add.info.: The Deccani peacock with a woman's head is presented as a jeweled specimen in a fanciful universe. She is shown in strict profile, does not participate in any apparent narrative, and is huge by measure of the ground line trees. The bands across the picture suggest recession in space, but the flat middle ground and the dislocations of scale create a world of the imagination. ); A© San Diego Museum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection; Indian, out of copyright

© © San Diego Museum of Art Edwin Binney 3rd Collection / Bridgeman Images