1798 Collection (page 7)

Woman of Salamanca
A woman of Salamanca

1798 Rebel Leaders Held
The Capture of Colclough and Harvey - English troops offer gentlemanly assistance to woman during arrest of rebel leaders

Ploos Van Amstel
JACOB CORNELIS PLOOS VAN AMSTEL Dutch art collector and engraver

French Dancers 1798
French couple dancing, during the Directoire. The man is not a war cripple, but holds his left arm behind his back

French Duellist
A confident French duellist, from the period of the Directoire

Frenchwoman, Directoire
Well-dressed Frenchwoman of the Directoire period

Soldiers Cooking
SOLDIERS COOKING British troops in camp - the men take care of the cooking, while their womenfolk do the laundry in the river and hang it out to dry

Delacroix Self-Portrait
FERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE DELACROIX French Romantic painter

Pitt Belabours Fox
Pitt chastises Fox for his support of the French Revolution

Suffering Chilblains
An unfortunate man rubs ointment on his chilblained feet, while his wife looks on sympathetically

Ladies Skipping
The Fashionable Amusement of Skipping

Sandals in Fashion
Three ladies compare their sandals - this years fashionable footwear

Adam Mickiewicz
ADAM MICKIEWICZ Polish poet and radical

Charles Wilkes (Chappel)
Charles Wilkes U.s. Naval

Egyptian Campaign 1798
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon urges his men across the desert from Alexandria to Cairo, taking the short route via Damanhour

Delacroix / Masson
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix French Artist

16th Century Townhouses
Houses in Butcher Row, London; the building on the right, demolished in 1798, is supposed to have been where the Gunpowder Plotters did their plotting

Sphinx (Denon)
A head-on view of the sphinx as it was found by the French army during Napoleons Egyptian campaign, and recorded by scholars

Napoleon and Sphinx
Napoleon takes time off from campaigning in Egypt to ponder the Riddle of the Sphinx

Science / Rumford / Munich
Count Rumford inspects the cannon production at the military arsenal in Munich. Rumford was interested in the new processes of metallic milling

Fighting for Supremacy
England and France fight for world supremacy

S. Rosa Di Viterbo
Santa Rosa of Viterbo has her uncorrupted hand kissed by pope Pius VI, who then as a thank-you to the nuns, allows them to kiss his feet

French Take Malta 1798
On his way to Egypt, Napoleon stops at the island of Malta and takes it : the British will take it away from him in 1800, though

Naval Action 1798
NAVAL ACTION OFF CANDIA Engagement between the British warship Leander and the French Le Genereux

Jules Michelet / Collette
JULES MICHELET French historian

Jules Michelet / Lafosse
JULES MICHELET French historian

Events / Ireland 1798
Rebels massacre prisoners at Scullarborgue

Battle of Ross 1798
Rebels defeated at the Battle of Ross

Auguste Comte / Toulliou
AUGUSTE COMTE French philosopher

Auguste Comte / Trinquart
AUGUSTE COMTE French philosopher

French Camel Corps 1798
Trooper of the Camel Corps of Napoleons Egyptian campaign

Alexander Dyce / Cdv
Alexander Dyce Scholar

Stanislaw Ii / Polish
STANISLAW II AUGUSTUS PONIATOWSKI Last independent King of Poland (1764-95)

Family on Horseback
A family on horseback

Full Dress 1798
Two ladies in full dresses - on the left, lilac dress with green net CURRICLE and yellow muslin BANDEAUX; on the right, a simpler dress but a turban head dress

Working Class Dress 1798
Clothing worn by a young, working class woman (a milkmaid) and a young boy and girl who are her customers, at the end of the eighteenth century

Map / Africa / Egypt / Aboukir
Map of Egypt: Aboukir Bay, scene of the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1798)

Johann & Georg Forster
JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER and GEORG FORSTER (1754 - 1794) Father and son travellers and writers, who accompanied Cook on his second world voyage

Benjamin Lee Guinness
BENJAMIN LEE GUINNESS Irish brewer; manager (from 1825), sole proprietor (1855) of brewing business founded by his father; first lord mayor of Dublin (1851)

Edward Jenner & Patient
EDWARD JENNER In 1798 he announced that if a child is inoculated with cowpox, two months later s/he won t contract smallpox even though inoculated with it

Uprising against French
The populace of Naples rise up against the French

Mariner, Albatross Shot
The Mariner shoots the albatross with his crossbow

Mariner, Two Spirits
The two spirits powering the ship onwards at great speed over the ocean

Mariner, Boat Spun Round
The rescue boat gets caught up in the whirlpool created by the sinking ship: Upon the whirl where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round

Naval Combat 1798
When Edmond Richers corvette La Bayonnaise is attacked by English frigate Embuscade, a fierce combat is terminated when the French board the English ship and it surrenders

Battle of Sediman
Albeit unlisted in any of our reference books, the battle of SEDIMAN is almost certainly an incident of Napoleons ill-starred Egyptian campaign

French Dromedary Cavalry
Regiment des Dromadaires, during Napoleons Egyptian campaign

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