Studies for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Rome Finish:20-pack 1956 Winter Olympic Games

1956 Winter Olympic Games

Three-quarter length portrait of Swainson

A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand

It is a satire on the depositions of the Douglases which led to the 'Delicate Investigation' of 1806

Imaginary view of a steam-powered orthoptere (helicopter) design by the French author Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de la Landelle (1812-1886)

Studies for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Rome Finish:20-pack 1956 Winter Olympic GamesStudies for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Rome, 1913. A print from The Art of the Great Masters, by Frederic Lees, Sampson Low, Marston and Co, London, 1913.