Candlestick Gallery

English gentleman on trial in a religious tribunal

English gentleman on trial in a religious tribunal in Avignon. He takes out a page with the legend of St. Clara of Falkenstein to the astonishment of an old hag and chaste Clara. The sacred page displayed. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel's Reise in die mitt??glichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785'??1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821

© Florilegius

Family of street entertainers performing in Paris, 1815

Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair, and lifts an anvil with her hands as if picking up a hairpin. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair, and lifts an anvil with her hands as if picking up a hairpin. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Stone of Anointing, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

The Stone of Anointing (also Stone of the Anointing or Stone of Unction') within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Ecclesia Sancti Sepulchri, also The Church of the Resurrection or Church of the Anastasis'), Jerusalem, Israel. This location is believed to be the spot where Jesus body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection