Looking Gallery

Empress Of Canada

17th July 1947: The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada at Liverpool just before she departs on her first post-war voyage to Canada, the first vessel to resume service on this route. She has been reconverted to a passenger liner since her wartime duties. In the foreground is the vessel Diomed. (Photo by Harrison /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Main Street, Toomebridge, Looking South

Main Street, Toomebridge, Looking South - a street scene with hotel on the left, there is a horse and trap in the middle of the road and a lot of people to the right under a large tree. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

© National Museums NI / Mary Evans

County, Horse, Hotel, Ireland, Large, Left, Location, Londonderry, Looking, Lot, Main, Middle, Northern, People, Road, Scene, South, Street, Toomebridge, Trap, Tree

Traditional Japanese Woodblock female by pond

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769, Edo - February 24, 1825, Edo) was born as the son of a puppet maker. He learned printmaking as a student of Toyoharu. At the beginning of his career he concentrated on bijin-ga - images of beautiful women. Toyokuni's success and fame came when he started making yakusha-e or actor portraits and actor scenes. This image dated 1861 and shows a actor and is probably the right hand side of a triptych of Bando Hikosaburo the famous actor. The female figure stands by a pond adorned with the tall Iris flowers, her clothing mirrors the colour scheme and forms part of my own private collection of original woodblock prints

© BernardAllum