Olive Branch - Gallery

Gallery

  • Greek silver tetradrachm of Athens (Attica). Goddess Athena and an owl with an olive branch. 6th century BCE

  • Athena bearing an olive branch as a pattern on her shield. Ancient Greek Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 400 BC, from Athens

  • Wall painting from the early Christian Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome, 3rd/4th century CE, showing three figures in a fire above whom flies a dove with a branch in its beak

  • William and Mary receive the olive branch from Peace. Painting by James Thornhill, c.1700, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

  • George I farthing, 1719, showing Brittania with a sword and olive branch

  • A German war loan poster, 1917

  • Cartoon from Punch, 1919. "OVERWEIGHTED. President Wilson: 'Here's your olive branch. Now get busy.' Dove of Peace: 'Of course I want to please everybody; but isn't this a bit thick?'"

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