Leonard Collection (page 7)

The Hours or Days, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Hours or Days, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

Dodona, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Dodona, 1615. Dodona in Epirus, northwestern Greece, was a prehistoric oracle devoted to the Greek god Zeus and the Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione

Weaver, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Weaver, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

La Naissance, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
La Naissance, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Les Etreines, (Gift), 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Les Etreines, (Gift), 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

Venus, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Venus, 1615. Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love and beauty, but originally a vegetation goddess and patroness of gardens and vineyards

La Nourriture, (Food), 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
La Nourriture, (Food), 1615. In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed part human and part horse. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates

Hippolytus, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Hippolytus, 1615. In Greek mythology, Hippolytus (Greek for loose horse) was a son of Theseus and either Antiope or Hippolyte. He was identified with the Roman forest god Virbius

Ariadne, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Ariadne, 1615. Ariadne, in Greek mythology, was daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphae. She is associated both with the battle of Theseus and the Minotaur; and with the god Dionysus

Pelops and Hippodamia, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Pelops and Hippodamia, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

Pentheus, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Pentheus, 1615. In Greek mythology, Pentheus was a king of Thebes, son of the Echion and Agave. Pentheus was pulled down and torn limb from limb by his own mother and other Bacchae in their frenzy

Satyrs, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Satyrs, 1615. In Greek mythology, satyrs are young humans, possibly with horse ears, that roamed the woods and mountains, and were the companions of Pan and Dionysus

Midas, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Midas, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Olympus, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Olympus, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Semele, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Semele, 1615. In Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his two parallel origin myths

The Fisherman, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Fisherman, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Thiodamas, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Thiodamas, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Pasiphae, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Pasiphae, 1615. Wife of King Minos of Crete. When the gods sent Minos a beautiful white bull, he did not sacrifice it as he should have done

Title page of Les Images Des Deux Philostrates, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Title page of Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates. 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs

Pan, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Pan, 1615. Pan is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their flocks: paein means to pasture. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat

Thessalie, (Thessaly), 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Thessalie, (Thessaly), 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

The Birth, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Birth, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Pelops, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Pelops, 1615. In Greek mythology, Pelops was a son of Tantalus and Dione. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris

Atlas, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Atlas, 1615. In Greek mythology, Atlas was one of the primordial Titans. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris

The Burial of Abdere, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Burial of Abdere, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

Antigone, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Antigone, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Tyrrhenians, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Tyrrhenians, 1615. The Tyrrhenians or Tyrsenians is an exonym used by Greek authors to refer to a non-Greek people. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates

Phorbas, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Phorbas, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Palestre, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Palestre, 1615. The palestre was, in ancient Greece, the place where the physical fight and the other exercises were practised

Hercules, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Hercules, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Themistocles, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Themistocles, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Les Isles, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Les Isles, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Cyclops, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Cyclops, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Palemon, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Palemon, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Perseus rescuing Andromeda, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Perseus rescuing Andromeda, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. In 1911 the British government decided to award a contract to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company to erect state-owned radio stations across the British Empire

Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Marconi (1874-1937) discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to another

The Big Push, 1916. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
The Big Push, 1916. A munitions worker with a trolley of new shells sending them of for a little trip to the continent (Europe) for use against the Germans

Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932. Cartoon showing De Valera (1822-1975) American-born Irish statesman

A Question of Detail, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
A Question of Detail, 1913. Sir Edward Grey (lst Viscount Grey of Fallodon), British Foreign Secretary 1905-1916 warns a grinning figure representing the Ottoman Turks they must leave the city of

Peace Comes to Town, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Peace Comes to Town, 1913. A figure of a knight, representing Sir Edward Grey (lst Viscount of Fallodon), British Foreign Secretary 1905-1916 carries the figure of Peace on his horse to the London

Subject to Correction, 1912. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Subject to Correction, 1912. Cartoon relating to the Peace Conference held in London in December 1912, to end the First Balkan War

American reinforcements to aid the Allied troops before the main US Army arrived, World War 1, 1918. Cartoon by L. Ravenhill from Punch, London, 10 April, 1918

Gandhi fasting in support of Untouchables, 1932. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Gandhi fasting in support of Untouchables, 1932. Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known as Mahatma (Great Soul), Indian Nationalist leader

CRAMP UFO
Leonard Cramps impression of a gravitationally propelled spacecraft, depicted hovering in a lunar crater Date: 1966

Tallulah Bankhead in The Green Hat
Scene from the stage adaptation of Michael Arlens novel, The Green Hat at the Adelphi Theatre in 1924. The lead role of Iris was played by Tallulah Bankhead (seen right)

WW2 Poster -- Let Us Go Forward Together
Let Us Go Forward Together. Colour photolithograph poster, with a picture of Winston Churchill in coat and hat, with British tanks and bombers behind him. Date: 1939-1945

The Pellmell of the European Puzzle. English cartoon by Ernest Howard Shepard, c1945, showing Franklin D
WORLD WAR II: CARTOON. The Pellmell of the European Puzzle. English cartoon by Ernest Howard Shepard, c1945, showing Franklin D

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"Leonard: A Multifaceted Name that Shaped History" From Winston Churchill flashing the V for Victory sign to Leonard Slye, the American singing cowboy actor with his beloved horse Trigger, the name Leonard has left an indelible mark on various realms. In 1874, Charles Darwin was captured in a picture by none other than Leonard himself, showcasing the intersection of science and art. Not limited to entertainment and academia, it also made its presence felt in music education through Nadia-Juliette Boulanger, a renowned French music teacher who nurtured countless talents. Meanwhile, Clarence "Kelly" Leonard Johnson's engineering prowess earned him accolades as he became a distinguished CEng and FRAeS. Delving into literature and history reveals yet another facet of this intriguing name. The wrapper of Aubrey Beardsley's rare book catalogue bears witness to Leonard's association with literary treasures. Moreover, during World War II's Tehran Conference, where pivotal decisions were made amidst global turmoil, it was impossible not to mention Churchill's iconic poster portraying him as a defiant British bulldog holding the line. Closer to home in Leicestershire stands Swithland Hall alongside its church and rectory—a testament to how even architecture can be influenced by names like Leonard. And let us not forget Roy Rogers—born under the moniker of NôÇÜLeonard Slye—who enchanted audiences as an American singing cowboy actor through his numerous Republic Pictures. Lastly but certainly not least is one of America's most celebrated composers and conductors—Leonard Bernstein—who graced us with his musical genius throughout his career. Marion S. Trikosko immortalized Bernstein in a photograph from 1971 that captures both his talent and charisma.