THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.
Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane. In the Arabic version of Thousand and One Nights this story was not yet contained.
Maude Adams was an American stage actress in the early 20th century.
Illustration for Goethe`s “Faust.” By Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Fantasy costume design 1925
Costume design for Persita and Florizel by Maxwell Armfield. “Persita and Florizel” (“The Winter`s Tale,” Act IV, Scene IV.) Tempera painting by Maxwell Armfield, 1925.
Norah Allison McGuinness was a female Irish painter and illustrator.
Marionette scene in the christmas play “The Three Magi.” “The Moor .” Marionette scene in the christmas play “The Three Magi.” By Richard Teschner, 1925.
India. Epic Mahabharata. Indian myth and legend: with illustrations by Warwick Goble.
Travestis 1930. Les Parfums. Left to right 1. Le Sens Unique. 2. La T.S.F. 3. Les Tabacs et Cigarettes. 4. La Crise du Logenment. 5. L`Embouteillage de Paris. 6. La… Read More
