- A juggler, after a miniature
- A Justing Toy
Persons of `rank` were taught in their childhood to relish such exercises as were of a martial nature, and the very toys that were put into their hands as playthings, were calculated to bias the mind in their favour. On the opposite page the reader will find two views of a knight on horseback, completely equipped for the just; four wheels originally were attached to the pedestal, which has a hole in the front for the insertion of a cord. The knight and his horse are both made with brass; the spear and the wheels are wanting in the original, but the hole in which the spear was inserted, still remains under the right arm, and it is supplied upon the print by something like it placed in the proper situation. This curious figure was probably made in the fifteenth century. The man represented may be readily separated from the horse, and is so contrived as to be thrown backwards by a smart blow upon the top of the shield or the front of his helmet, and replaced again with much ease: two such toys were requisite; each of them having a string made fast in the front of the pedestal, being then placed at a distance in opposition the one to the other, they were violently drawn together in imitation of two knights tilting; and by the concussion of the spears and shields, if dexterously managed, one or both of the men were cast to the ground. - A Lady at Play
The court of France was, at this period, the most depraved in morals, the grossest and most unpolished in manners, of any in Europe. The women of the bourgeoisie, envious of the great ladies, called them dames à gorge nue; and the latter retaliated by designating the women of the people as grisettes, because of their gray (grises) stockings,—a name retained almost down to the present day. In the sittings of the États Généraux, the President, Miron, complained bitterly of the excesses of the nobility, the contempt for justice, the open violences, the gambling, the extravagance, the constant duels, the "execrable oaths with which they thought it proper to ornament their usual discourse." - A leap in the air
- A Little Girl of Hainburg
A Little Girl of Hainburg - A Lombard Ambassador
- A Magistrate of Florence
- A Magistrate of Venice
- A Man of Granada
- A mature East Greenlandic Eskimo beauty
- A Mediæval Innkeeper
- A Merovingian Queen
A Merovingian Queen - A Mohammedan Chief
- A moonlit night in the drift ice
- A Muffish Meeting
- A Musketeer of the Early Seventeenth Century
- A Neat Meeting
- A Norman Matron of the Twelfth Century
- A Norman Monk of the Twelfth Century
- A Norman Ship
(From the Bayeux Tapestry.) - A Norman Warrior of the Twelfth Century
- A Park Orator
Separated from these people by another social gulf, and toward Marble Arch, are the unemployed listening to the park actors and park orators. If you are tall enough to look over the heads of an English crowd you will see in some of these `groups` strolling players at work. In the centre of one group a short, red-faced park orator declares that a Prime Minister has robbed him. - A Peasant Costume
- A peep into the sanctum sanctorum 6 June. 1724
- A Posture-Master.—XIV. Century
The display of his abilities consisted in twisting and contorting his body into strange and unnatural attitudes. This art was, in doubt, practised by the jugglers in former ages; and a singular specimen of it, delineated on the last mentioned Bodleian MS., in the reign of Edward III., is here represented. The performer bends himself backwards, with his head turned up between his hands, so as nearly to touch his feet; and in this situation he hangs by his hams upon a pole, supported by two of his confederates. - A Public Room at Frascatis
A Public Room at Frascatis - A refuge ( Line of large boulevards )
It is certainly the most important step that has been taken towards social reform since the new era. — The refuge adds to human rights that of being crushed only when it wants to, when it is lacking of patience, or that his physiognomy is unfriendly to the peacekeeper responsible for interrupting the movement of devices to crush the members of the poor people. - A Royal Attendant, Spain
- A Sea-Fight
(From the 'Life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick'; drawn by John Rous about 1485.) - A show ( Place Vendôme )
The downpour, so impatiently awaited during certain summers, sometimes multiplies in such a way that this cataclysm becomes the daily event. — Despite this regularity, the phenomenon varies so much the hours of its appearance, and occurs with such instantaneousness, that 'he succeeds each time in surprising and flooding a satisfactory number of walkers, who had thought they could profit from a fallacious clearing. - A Sidewalk Artist
In the early part of the day the parks are occupied by very young people; the visitors become older with the day. The nurses and their charges leave, and evening finds an old lady leaning on her husband’s arm, walking slowly along their favorite path, while their carriage follows at a little distance. And as night comes on they roll back into the great city among the never-ceasing tread of feet, past the side-walk artist sitting by his pictures on the pavement, looking anxiously at the passers-by—and the park’s day is done—a curtain of darkness falls on the great stage - A Sixteenth-century Cooperage
- A Slavonian of the Tenth Century
- A Spaniard of the Seventeenth Century
- A Spanish Captain
- A Spanish Captain of the Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish Captain, Time of Philip II
- A Spanish Cavalier of the Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish Flagellant
- A Spanish Gentleman, early Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish Gentleman, time of Philip II
- A Spanish Gentlewoman of the Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish King of the Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Merchant, Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Nobleman of the Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Noblewoman of the Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Penitent of the Sixteenth Century
- A Street Row in the East End
A Street Row in the East End - A Sudden Emergency
- A Thirteenth-century Knight in Armour
- A Tournament
- A tumbling Ape
A tumbling Ape - A Tuscan Officer
- A Typical Street in Bethnal Green
A Typical Street in Bethnal Green - A Venetian Beggar
- A Venetian General
- A Venetian Naval Officer
- A Venetian Nobleman
- A Venetian Senator
- A Venetian Soldier, Twelfth Century