A print from a disbound book published 1914, with an unrelated picture or text on the reverse side.
Suitable for framing, the page size including text and border is approx 10.5" x 8" or 27cm x 20cm.
Image size approx 8.5 inches x 5.75 inches
This
is an antique print not a modern copy and shows normal signs of age or
previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any
scans as they form part of the description.
The date given of 1914 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos
accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in
monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in
brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
THE COLOSSUS AT RHODES,
This huge bronze statue of the sun-god Helios, one of the wonders of the ancient world, was made from spoils left by the Macedonian king Demetrius Poliorcetes, who besieged the city in 304 B.C., but was obliged to retire hastily. The statue took twelve years to construct, it is said, and when completed stood seventy cubits high, It was thrown down by an earthquake about 224 B.C., and, after lying broken for nearly a thousand years, was bought by a Jew from the Saracens, and probably reconverted into instruments of war.
This huge bronze statue of the sun-god Helios, one of the wonders of the ancient world, was made from spoils left by the Macedonian king Demetrius Poliorcetes, who besieged the city in 304 B.C., but was obliged to retire hastily. The statue took twelve years to construct, it is said, and when completed stood seventy cubits high, It was thrown down by an earthquake about 224 B.C., and, after lying broken for nearly a thousand years, was bought by a Jew from the Saracens, and probably reconverted into instruments of war.