Bridgeman Education

ID: PCT4272157

La Cite des Angouiles. The city walls are made of pieces of cold cuts (sausage, pudding), a huge pig is perch on the roof of a tower of the entrance gate. Illustration by Albert Robida (1848-1926) for an episode of the Fourth Livre by Francois Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century.

Robida, Albert (1848-1926)

ID: PCT4272180

As a child, Giant Gargantua already has a gargantuan appetite! Here he is drinking from a huge glass. Gargantua = that big you have (the gullet). To be closer to gargante = throat. Illustration of Robida for the Gargantua de Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century.

Robida, Albert (1848-1926)

ID: PCT4272227

Toulouse, the Garonne. Engraving after a watercolour by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) illustrating Henry James's book “A little tour in France”” edition Heinemann 1900 (French titles: “Voyage en France” and “Un petit tour en Languedoc”).

Pennell, Joseph (1858-1926)

ID: PCT4272311

Tarascon, the Tarasque. Monster - dragon - folklore - tradition. Postcard beginning 20th century after an ancient engraving.

Unknown Artist, (20th century)

ID: PCT4272393

France and its African possessions in 1937 (print)

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4272479

Excerpt from the Alphabet of the Child Jesus, edition Alfred Mame a Tours, 1929. Each page offers two large decorative lettrines, with their Christian entry (letter A as love, B as goodness... up to Z as zele). “The zele is the burning desire to make God known and to make him love”.

ID: PCT4272731

Mother at home in 1900: laundry, cooking, education of children. The mother's spot is at home, the father earns the money, and the mother holds the household. Illustration by Louis Maitrejean (1895-1947). Extract from a book of moral for schoolchildren, early 20th century.

Maitrejean, Louis (1895-1947)

ID: PCT4272777

Reclamation for the margarine Astra, April 1954.

ID: PCT4273015

Care of the household: laundry.

ID: PCT4273773

Hunting on the river Teoghe, tributary of the Ngami. Hippo harpoon. Engraving by Gustave Dore illustrating “” les aventures et chasse du voyageur Charles-Jean Anderson dans l'Afrique Australe”, published in the journal “” Le tour du monde”, a new journal of voyages under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1860.

Dore, Gustave (1832-83)