The little Caesarevitch with his sailor friend Size:XXL: 127 x 100cm Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon

Benjamin Franklin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756

Punch shows a typical Sunday public house

horses and a carriage in the street

Tycho Brahe's great azimuth semicircle ('Semicirculus magnus azimuthalis') in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven

The little Caesarevitch with his sailor friend Size:XXL: 127 x 100cm Mount VernonThe little Caesarevitch with his sailor friend, 1908. The Tsarevich Alexei Romanov (1904 1918) was the only son of Nicholas II. He suffered from haemophilia and so needed to be under constant supervision as the slightest bruise or wound could have been dangerous. From Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book, Photographs from My Camera, by Queen Alexandra, published by The Daily Telegraph (London, 1908).