Half Length Gallery

Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, in a straw hat, c.1782-94 (oil on canvas)

HEH416343 Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, in a straw hat, c.1782-94 (oil on canvas) by Romney, George (1734-1802); 76.2x63.5 cm; Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, USA; (add.info.: Emma, Lady Hamilton, nee Amy Lyon (1765-1815) mistress of Lord Nelson and muse of the artist;); A© Huntington Art Collections ; A© Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; English, out of copyright

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Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, c.1922 (b/w photo)

TPG400696 Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, c.1922 (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, American publisher and bookseller; James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet; Beach published Joyce's novel Ulysses through her bookshop Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922; they are shown seated in the bookshop; Joyce is wearing an eye patch due to the surgery he had just undergone;); French, out of copyright

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Prince Alamayu, son of Emperor Theodor II of Abyssinia, Ryde, England

622821 Prince Alamayu, son of Emperor Theodor II of Abyssinia, Ryde, England, 1868 (albumen print) by Hughes, Cornelius Jabez (1819-94); 9x5.8 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Prince Alamayu (1861-79), eldest legitimate son of Emperor Tewodros (Theodor) II of Abyssinia (1818-68), who was adopted by the British colonial officer Captain Tristram Speedy and later became a favourite of Queen Victoria. See also image 622859. His father had committed suicide after being defeated by the British at the Battle of Magdala, at the culmination of the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia under Robert Napier.); A© Michael Graham-Stewart; British, out of copyright

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