Lanterne Collection

Ueno, Tokyo - Uyeno Tokio - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo
CSO4982477 Ueno, Tokyo - Uyeno Tokio - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo; (add.info.: Ueno, Tokyo - Uyeno Tokio - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo); Photo © DDF

Lantern Manufacturers - Lantern Maker - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo
CSO4982193 Lantern Manufacturers - Lantern Maker - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo; (add.info.: Lantern Manufacturers - Lantern Maker - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo); Photo © DDF

Nikko - Nikko Temple Court - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979575 Nikko - Nikko Temple Court - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Nikko - Nikko Temple Court - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Chinese costumes: a mandarin and his wife smoking pipes, a dairy, soldiers and a night guard with his lantern
FLO4634129 Chinese costumes: a mandarin and his wife smoking pipes, a dairy, soldiers and a night guard with his lantern. Lithography for the book

Kyoto - Tockodeira Temple - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4980895 Kyoto - Tockodeira Temple - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Kyoto - Tockodeira Temple - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Kyoto - Nichi Temple - Bougandji - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979622 Kyoto - Nichi Temple - Bougandji - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Kyoto - Nichi Temple - Bougandji - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Kyoto - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979650 Kyoto - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Kyoto - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Osaka - Bridge in Osaka - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979596 Osaka - Bridge in Osaka - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Osaka - Bridge in Osaka - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Shintoism: Torii (Tori i) of the Santuary Island of Miyajima (Itsuku shima) - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4981187 Shintoism: Torii (Tori i) of the Santuary Island of Miyajima (Itsuku shima) - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Shintoism)

Enting Gosho Kyoto Old Imperial Palace - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4981017 Enting Gosho Kyoto Old Imperial Palace - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Enting Gosho Kyoto Old Imperial Palace - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Passage of lanterns - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4980750 Passage of lanterns - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Passage of lanterns - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Nikko Temple Gantry - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979569 Nikko Temple Gantry - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Nikko Temple Gantry - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Nikko - Enting the Great Temples - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979553 Nikko - Enting the Great Temples - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Nikko - Enting the Great Temples - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Kyoto - City View - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979392 Kyoto - City View - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Kyoto - City View - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Customer and courtesan with maid (kamuro) being led by a servant holding a lantern in the pleasure quarters
FLO4630943 Customer and courtesan with maid (kamuro) being led by a servant holding a lantern in the pleasure quarters. Woodblock print by Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) from Fuzoku Emakimono

Chinese interior decoration and furniture, with elegant murals, lanterns, stools, tables and calligraphy
FLO4622735 Chinese interior decoration and furniture, with elegant murals, lanterns, stools, tables and calligraphy. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's

English dandies smashing a street lantern in Paris. Dick and his Companions Smashing the Glim or a Spree by Lamp-light
FLO4686733 English dandies smashing a street lantern in Paris. Dick and his Companions Smashing the Glim or a Spree by Lamp-light

Zojo ji Temple - Tokugawa Shrine - Shiba at Tokyo - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo
CSO4982498 Zojo ji Temple - Tokugawa Shrine - Shiba at Tokyo - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo; (add.info.: Zojo ji Temple - Tokugawa Shrine - Shiba at Tokyo - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured)

View of a street in Yokohama - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo
CSO4982450 View of a street in Yokohama - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo; (add.info.: View of a street in Yokohama - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo); Photo © DDF

Shintoism: Torii (tori i) of the Shrine Island of Miyajima (Itsuku shima) - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4981201 Shintoism: Torii (tori i) of the Shrine Island of Miyajima (Itsuku shima) - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Shintoism)

Nara - Kasuga Park - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4980751 Nara - Kasuga Park - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Nara - Kasuga Park - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Nara - Kofukuji Temple - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4980400 Nara - Kofukuji Temple - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Nara - Kofukuji Temple - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Nikko - Temple of Nikko - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979549 Nikko - Temple of Nikko - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Nikko - Temple of Nikko - Japan 1880-1910 -); Photo © DDF. All rights reserved 2024.

Yedo - Edo - Tokyo - Temple preceding the Tomb of Taikans in Chiba - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979513 Yedo - Edo - Tokyo - Temple preceding the Tomb of Taikans in Chiba - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Yedo - Edo - Tokyo - Temple preceding the Tomb of Taikans in Chiba - Japan 1880-1910)

Yedo - Edo - Tokyo - Temple precedent the Tombs of Taikans in Chiba - Japan 1880-1910
CSO4979499 Yedo - Edo - Tokyo - Temple precedent the Tombs of Taikans in Chiba - Japan 1880-1910 -; (add.info.: Yedo - Edo - Tokyo - Temple precedent the Tombs of Taikans in Chiba - Japan 1880-1910)

Various examples of the camera obscura. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr
FLO4590917 Various examples of the camera obscura. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr

English dandies and belles pushing over a nightwatchman's box. Tom Getting the best of a Charley
FLO4661998 English dandies and belles pushing over a nightwatchman's box. Tom Getting the best of a Charley. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank

The priest. The priest carries the viatica, or sacrament, has a certain dying person
FLO4675541 The priest. The priest carries the viatica, or sacrament, has a certain dying person. The companions follow with candles and benite water

Tourists fooling around among the skulls and skeletons in the Catacombs. Life among the Dead, or Dick Wildfire
FLO4686780 Tourists fooling around among the skulls and skeletons in the Catacombs. Life among the Dead, or Dick Wildfire, Squire Jenkins and the Halibut Family in the Catacombs

Night watchers (engraving)
5944515 Night watchers (engraving); Private Collection; (add.info.: Engraving Night watchers watching thieves pass by and ringing the bell when they saw them appear Special Collection)

The Lantern of the Dead monument in Sarlat France

Letter L: Unicorn, Lion, Lancer, Rabbit, Lantern, Lamp, Lievre; M: Mamluk, Muletier, Musician, Marchand
DUV4209815 Letter L: Unicorn, Lion, Lancer, Rabbit, Lantern, Lamp, Lievre; M: Mamluk, Muletier, Musician, Marchand. engraving in " Alphabet"

RAILWAY ALPHABET L, 1860 (illustration)
7206888 RAILWAY ALPHABET L, 1860 (illustration) by British School, (19th century); 29x24 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: L)

Railway Alphabet I J K L M, 1860 (illustration)
7206885 Railway Alphabet I J K L M, 1860 (illustration) by British School, (19th century); 29x24 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: I J K L M: Index, Day, Kepi, Lantern, Mileage)

Lanterne du chateau de Chambord (engraving)
3645058 Lanterne du chateau de Chambord (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lanterne du chateau de Chambord. Illustration for Le Magasin Pittoresque (1860)

Night watchman with his lantern and stick, inattentive to two burglars entering a house behind him (1819)
FLO4666910 Night watchman with his lantern and stick, inattentive to two burglars entering a house behind him (1819). Wood engraving, based on a painting by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

Lanterne venitienne du seizieme siecle (engraving)
3644976 Lanterne venitienne du seizieme siecle (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lanterne venitienne du seizieme siecle)

Les Manifestations Antiboulangistes, Incident de la place Saint-Michel, ou sont brules des exemplaires de "la
3623926 Les Manifestations Antiboulangistes, Incident de la place Saint-Michel, ou sont brules des exemplaires de " la Lanterne" (engraving) by French School

L Homme a la lanterne magique, 1774 (engraving)
3645580 L Homme a la lanterne magique, 1774 (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: L Homme a la lanterne magique, 1774)

Lanterne des morts, a Chateau-Larcher, Vienne (engraving)
6020794 Lanterne des morts, a Chateau-Larcher, Vienne (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lanterne des morts, a Chateau-Larcher, Vienne)

Appareils de sauvetage, Observatoire sous-marin avec lanterne electrique (engraving)
3645921 Appareils de sauvetage, Observatoire sous-marin avec lanterne electrique (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Appareils de sauvetage)

Chapelle funeraire et lanterne des morts, pres de l abbaye de Fontevrault (engraving)
6020787 Chapelle funeraire et lanterne des morts, pres de l abbaye de Fontevrault (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Palais des Tuileries, 1690 (colour litho)
962784 Palais des Tuileries, 1690 (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Palais des Tuileries, 1690)

The husband, the wife and the thief (Le mari, la femme et le voleur
DUV4215047 The husband, the wife and the thief (Le mari, la femme et le voleur) - Fables by La Fontaine, 19th century (engraving) by Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47)

Une Representation de lanterne magique (engraving)
3645818 Une Representation de lanterne magique (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Une Representation de lanterne magique)

Frejus, Remparts romains (Lanterne, dite d Auguste) et Vue generale (colour photo)
2804136 Frejus, Remparts romains (Lanterne, dite d Auguste) et Vue generale (colour photo) by French Photographer, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Frejus)

Lanterne des morts, a Antigny, Vienne (engraving)
6020774 Lanterne des morts, a Antigny, Vienne (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lanterne des morts, a Antigny, Vienne)

Lanterne des morts de Ciron, Indre (engraving)
6020783 Lanterne des morts de Ciron, Indre (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lanterne des morts de Ciron, Indre)

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The Lantern of the Dead monument in Sarlat, France, stands tall and proud, a symbol of remembrance and reverence. This captivating structure has witnessed centuries pass by, its intricate engravings telling stories of times long gone. In the enchanting world of alphabets, the letter L takes center stage with its fascinating associations. From mythical creatures like unicorns to majestic lions and valiant lancers, this letter brings forth a sense of wonder. And what better way to illuminate these tales than with a rabbit-shaped lantern or a traditional lamp? Traveling back in time to 1860, we find ourselves immersed in the realm of railways. The Railway Alphabet L engraving captures the essence of progress and innovation as trains chug along their tracks. Meanwhile, another illustration showcases I J K L M - an alphabet that echoes through history. Stepping into Chambord Castle's lanterne du chateau de Chambord engraving transports us to grandeur and opulence. Its radiant glow casts an ethereal light on regal halls and hidden corners alike. But not all lanterns shine brightly for protection; some are oblivious guardians like the night watchman depicted in Thomas Rowlandson's wood engraving from 1819. Unaware of two burglars sneaking behind him, he remains lost in his thoughts while clutching his trusty lantern. Venturing further across time and space reveals more intriguing scenes: a Venetian lantern from the sixteenth century exudes elegance; "La Lanterne" burns amidst anti-Boulangist manifestations; an homme à la lanterne magique captivates audiences with his magical device. From Chateau-Larcher's Lanterne des morts to Fontevrault Abbey's funerary chapel adorned with its own solemn beacon – these engravings speak volumes about life's fleeting nature and our quest for solace even after death.