1780s Collection (page 2)

Picture auction, Hotel Bullion, Paris
Picture auction at the Hotel Bullion, Paris. Date: 1785

Army Encampment at the British Museum, Gordon Riots
Army Encampment at the British Museum, London, at the time of the Gordon Riots. Date: 1780

English Post Chaise of 1780 by Edward Penfield Date: 1780

Abraham buried in the Cave of Machpelah by his sons - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 25.9. 1787

Man in tight stays 1788
Tight lacing 1788. A painfully fashionable young man wearing corsets to achieve a fashionable figure, bowing, perhaps in a dance. "These tight stays will be death of me, " he says

Burns Dr Hornbrook Hornbook Books Poems 1785
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A rural Islington in North London. Date: 1780

Spanish battering ships, port and starboard, used between 1781 and 1783 during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. Date: circa 1781

The Plough Kensal Green
View of The Plough Inn in 1820. In the 1780s the Plough was a haunt of the artist George Morland. Date: 1875

Death of Major Peirson at St Helier, Jersey (British defence against French invasion). 1781

The Holy Family, by Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Holy Family with the Infant St John, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the National Gallery, London. Date: 1788-9

Woman of Kamtschatka (Kamchatka), Russia
Woman of Kamtschatka (Kamchatka), north-east Russia. circa 1780s

Native of King Georges Sound, Australia, by John Webber, 1783, in a book about the voyages of Captain James Cook. 1783

The River Seine, Paris, France
View of the River Seine, Paris, France. circa 1788

General view of Stockholm, Sweden. circa 1788

Rome in its original splendour. circa 1788

Noblity in Costume - Lady Charlotte Spencer as Miss Rivers, Lord Charles Spencer as Colonel Rivers. 1788

Memorial, at Portsea to the Crew of HMS Royal George
Memorial at Portsea to the Crew of HMS Royal George, sunk on the heel of Spithead on 29 August 1782. 1780s

General view of Madrid, Spain. circa 1788

General view of Lisbon, Portugal. circa 1788

View of Florence, Italy. circa 1788

View of Dublin from Magazine Hill in Phoenix Park
View of Dublin, Ireland, from the Magazine Hill in Phoenix Park. circa 1788

Admiralty Office, Dock Yard, Storehouse, Amsterdam
Admiralty Office, Dock Yard and Storehouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands. circa 1788

A St Jamess Beauty. 1783

King George III and Queen Charlotte Stag Hunting
A Royal Chase - King George III and Queen Charlotte Stag Hunting. 1780

Mendoza and Humphries in a boxing match. 1788

View of a Morai or burial place in Atooi, Sandwich Islands
External view of a Morai or burial place in Atooi, one of the Sandwich Islands (now the Hawaiian Islands). circa 1788

A View at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka, Russia
Scene at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamchatka, Russia. 1785

France 1789, French Revolution
France 1789 by J H Banks - French Revolution. 1789

Scene from Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne. 1781

Ladies dress for 1787. 1787

Burning of the Floating Batteries before Gibraltar - Siege of Gibraltar, 1782. 1782

A Royal Chase - their Majesties stag hunting. 1780

One of the main galleries for the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1787 in London. This image shows a large crowd admiring the paintings, which cover nearly every inch of the walls. Date: 1787

Mrs Davenport by George Romney (1734-1802) - painting on canvas. Date: circa 1783

The Visit to the Nursery by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) - painting on canvas. Date: circa 1780

Womens French fashion 1787
Three fashionable women of the late 18th century. Date: 1787

GALVANI FROG EXP. 2
He provokes contractions in the legs of a frog using electricity from a storm-cloud Date: early 1780s

Old Patch
A rogue of genius who, in the 1780s carried out bank note forgeries on a grand scale, amassing himself a sum in excess of lb200, 000. Date: 19th century

Thomas, Baron Dimsdale - Physician to the Russian Court
Thomas Dimsdale (1712-1800) - Physician and volunteer under the Duke of Cumberland. Innoculated the Empress Catherine for Smallpox and various Russian Princes

Henry Dundas (later 1st Viscount Melville)
Henry Dundas (1742-1811) - became 1st Viscount Melville in 1802. A Scottish advocate and Tory politician. He was the first Secretary of State for War and became, in 1806

King George III (1738-1820). 1782

Woman with daughters
A lady with her two daughters in a walled garden. Date: 1790s

Mesmer conducting a baquet in Paris
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 - 1815), German physician and hypnotist, treating patients in a group, in a session which he called a baquet (named after the large vessel in the middle of the room)

Reuben, Old Testament patriarch, in Thomas Bankes Bible, Plate I. 1787

Silver cup of Joseph found in Benjamins sack
Silver cup of Joseph found in his brother Benjamins sack - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 44.12. 1787

Joseph dreams of the wheatsheaf, the sun, moon and eleven stars - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 37.9. 1787

Isaac cleaning the wells made by Abraham to water his flocks - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 26.18. 1787

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