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Skating

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Images about Skating

16 images from works
  • The wind has caught the umbrella of a man who is skating, causing him to collide with another man. Etching by J. Gillray, 1805.
  • Three children are skating across a frozen lake pulling a sledge with a girl in it who has a dog on her lap. Colour process print, 18--.
  • Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
  • Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.
  • 'Pepsencia'... / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.
  • Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.
  • Women in fur capes and hats with feathers in are skating on a frozen lake, a man in a top hat and coat is watching from the side. Colour process print, 18--.
  • People are skating on a frozen village pond, two are being pushed in sledges, and one person has fallen over on the ice. Etching after A. Van der Neer.
  • Soapona / R.W. Bell & Co.
  • The bones of the hand of Mrs F. Bridgeman, wearing a finger ring, showing a broken wrist. Photograph of X-ray, 1911.
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    Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.

    George Cruikshank | Date: [1844] | Reference: 32500i
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    People skating and sledging with their dogs on the ice of a frozen river in the Netherlands; representing the pleasures of winter. Engraving by P.C Canot, 1759, after J. Pillement.

    Jean-Baptiste Pillement | Date: December ye 26th 1759 | Reference: 3063601i
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    Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.

    Aplin & Barrett & Co. | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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    People are skating on a frozen village pond, two are being pushed in sledges, and one person has fallen over on the ice. Etching after A. Van der Neer.

    Aert van der Neer | Reference: 34599i
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    The bones of the hand of Mrs F. Bridgeman, wearing a finger ring, showing a broken wrist. Photograph of X-ray, 1911.

    | Date: 1911 | Reference: 662326i
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