Louise Contat and Joseph Dazincourt, French actors Paul Liegois Siena Cathedral

Siena Cathedral

A gold crown encircles that of the king (right)

XXXVI from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

and a horse and carriage battling against the snow and wind

Comedian Billy Connolly from Glasgow who has now hit the big time opens in London for a week in his own one man show

Louise Contat and Joseph Dazincourt, French actors Paul Liegois Siena CathedralLouise Contat and Joseph Dazincourt, French actors, 1784 (1912). Cut whilst the Marriage de Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais, the play for wich they are most famous, was being performed. A print from One Hundred Silhouette Portraits, Horace Hart, at the University of Oxford Press, 1912.