King Welsh 4 year old Carmen 'holds

4 year old Carmen 'holds up' the Nanny goat - 'your money or your kids'

France's first woman racing driver

Recueil de toutes les observations astronomiques faites par ordre du Roy

February 1963

On the table is a volume with 'Opticks' [presumably denoting Sir Isaac Newton's work] written on the top edge

King Welsh 4 year old Carmen 'holdsKing and knight, late 12th century, (1843). The king wears a long dalmatica (tunic) ornamented with fleur de lys, and mantle thrown back to show his jewelled collar and girdle. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).