- Costers and Cockneys
“Ere y’are, Lidies’ Tormentors. ‘Two’ n penny!” - Costume - Fifteenth century, 1st half
- Costume - Fifteenth century
- Costume Ball at Buckingham Palace
- Costume for young girl. Period, 1821
Costume for young girl. Period, 1821 - Costume notes, 1770-1780
- Costume notes, 1790-1800
- Costume notes, 1811-1812
- Costume notes, 1814-1816
- Costume notes. Period 1670-1690
- Costume of a Lawyer
(From a broadside, dated 1623.) - Costume of a Young Spanish Woman, early Seventeenth Century
- Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII
Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII - Costume of Shepherds in the Twelfth Century
- Costume type. 1695-1710
- Costume types. Period Charles II
- Costumes Fifteenth century, 2nd half
- Costumes of the Franks from the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries
The period known as the Middle Ages, says the learned Benjamin Guérard, is the produce of Pagan civilisation, of Germanic barbarism, and of Christianity. It began in 476, on the fall of Agustulus, and ended in 1453, at the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II., and consequently the fall of two empires, that of the West and that of the East, marks its duration. Its first act, which was due to the Germans, was the destruction of political unity, and this was destined to be afterwards replaced by religions unity. Then we find a multitude of scattered and disorderly influences growing on the ruins of central power. The yoke of imperial dominion was broken by the barbarians; but the populace, far from acquiring liberty, fell to the lowest degrees of servitude. Instead of one despot, it found thousands of tyrants, and it was but slowly and with much trouble that it succeeded in freeing itself from feudalism. Nothing could be more strangely troubled than the West at the time of the dissolution of the Empire of the Caesars; nothing more diverse or more discordant than the interests, the institutions, and the state of society, which were delivered to the Germans - Costumes, 1554-1568
- Costumes, 1554-1580
- Costumes, 1568-1610
- Costumes, 1570-1605
- Costumes. Period James I
- Costumes. Period, James I
- Cotswold Games
- Count Alvaro Nuñez de Lara
- Count di Cavour
- Country Market-boat, Budapest
Country Market-boat, Budapest - Coursing
Coursing - Court costume Louis XVI - about 1780
Court costume Louis XVI - about 1780 - Court Costume of a Young Italian Nobleman, Fifteenth Century
- Court Dress - Early 15th Century
Court Dress - Early 15th Century - Court Dress - Latter part of 13th Century
Court Dress - Latter part of 13th Century - Court Dress 1540 - Tudor or Francis I
Court Dress 1540 - Tudor or Francis I - Court Dress 1550 - Tudor or Francis I
Court Dress 1550 - Tudor or Francis I - Court Dress of 1390
Court Dress of 1390 - Court Dress of tudor or Louis XI Period
Court Dress of tudor or Louis XI Period - Court of Palace built by Charles VII of Naples at Portici in 1738
- Courtyard of St. James’s Palace
- Cricket
Cricket - Crinoline Dress
18th Century - Cromwell, Earl of Essex
- Croquet
Croquet - Cross-Bow Shooting at the Butts.—XVI. Century
Here we find exhibited a school for practice; and the manner in which the archers shot at the butts, or dead marks, a pastime frequently alluded to by the authors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In the reign of Henry VII. the cross-bow was forbidden by law to be used; and, soon after his son ascended the throne, it was found necessary to renew the prohibition; yet, notwithstanding the interference of the legislature, in less than twenty years afterwards, the usage of cross-bows and hand-guns was so prevalent, that a new statute was judged necessary, which forbad the use of both, and inflicted a penalty of ten pounds for keeping a cross-bow in the house. - Crossbow and Arrows used for Sport
Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts. These were made of various sorts of wood; about a dozen trees were used for the purpose, but ash-wood was thought to be the best. Generally the arrows had a tip of iron, shaped like a pyramid, pointed, though for shooting at birds the top was sometimes blunt, so that a bird might be struck down without being badly wounded. One old writer says that a great difference between the long-bow and the crossbow was, that success did not depend upon who pulled the lock—a child might do this as well as a man—but with the long-bow strength was everything. In fact, during the Tudor times, the kings specially encouraged the archers to practise shooting with the long-bow, and people were even forbidden to keep crossbows. The crossbow, however, when it had reached perfection, carried much further than the ordinary long-bow. - Crossbowmen
They represent French soldiers at the defence of Rouen, 1419, shooting from behind the shelter of shields propped up in front of them. - Crossbowmen
The centre figure is winding up his windlass crossbow behind the shelter of a shield. From Manuscript, Froissarts ' Chronicles.' The larger shields, which were carried before the knights (by their pages) when on the march, and which were propped up in front of them as a protection from arrows in a battle or a siege, were known as pavises or mantlets. - Crossbowmen
The soldiers carry windlass crossbows. One man is winding up his weapon ; the other is shooting, with his windlass laid on the ground at his feet. - Crossing the Weir—Rottenacker
Crossing the Weir—Rottenacker - Crown of Charlemagne, kept in the imperial treasury of Vienna
- Crown Point
On the other side of the highway, swinging romantically from the branches of a great Scotch fir, is the picture-sign of the house, bearing the legend, “Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Crown Point,” and showing the half-length portrait of a very determined-looking warrior, clad in armour and apparently deep in thought; while in the background is a broad river, across whose swift current boat-loads of soldiers, in the costume of two centuries ago, are being rowed. - Crypt of St. Michael’s
- Crypt under Merchant Taylors’ Hall
- Cumberland Hay-market
Cumberland Hay-market - Cup found in the Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
- Curds and Whey
- Dancing to a Bear
This dance is executed by a female; and probably the perfection of the dance consisted in approaching and receding from the bear with great agility, so as to prevent his seizing upon her, and occasioning any interruption to the performance, which the animal, on the other hand, appears to be exceedingly desirous of effecting, being unmuzzled for the purpose, and irritated by the scourge of the juggler. - Danes, Scandinavians and Gauls
- Daniel O’Connell
- Danish Ships
Danish Ships