1840 Collection (#29)

Paganini / Maclise
NICCOLO PAGANINI Virtuoso Italian violinist

Oxford / All Souls / C1840
Oxford: All Souls College the south front

British Workman
A typical English worker of the lower middle class - specifically, a calico printers clerk - with some pretensions to gentility in his choice of clothes

Sewing Machine Girl
A gentleman walking down Londons Regent Street is struck by the sight of a pretty girl operating a sewing machine in a shop window

Ragged School
Scene in a ragged school, probably in London, where homeless boys are cared for and taught a useful trade

Lepidoptera Ride, Kiss
Display of equestrian osculation by anthropomorphised lepidoptera

St Petersburg Bridge
Traffic crosses the Neva on one of many bridges

KAZAN - 2
The monastery

Peasants in their Best
A Russian peasant family dressed in their holiday clothes

KAZAN - 4
The Barrier of Siberia

Batum, Georgia - 2
The harbour of Batum (Batumi) on the Black Sea near the Turkish border : at the time this picture was made it was still under Turkish rule

Batum, Georgia
General view of Batum (Batumi) on the Black Sea near the Turkish border : at the time this picture was made it was still under Turkish rule

KAZAN - 3
The monastery of saint John (Ivan)

Women Harvesters
Women harvesters

KAZAN - 1
The market-place with its distinctive tower

KAZAN - 5
General view of the city from the north

Russian Village Scene
Village scene at Dubrovna, in winter - a sledge is being used to carry goods

Collecting Firewood
Peasants collecting firewood

Napoleon I / Ashes / Casas
NAPOLEON I His ashes are brought to Paris and are taken to Les Invalides

Napoleon I / Ashes / Lami
NAPOLEON I His ashes are brought to Paris and are taken to Les Invalides

Rome / Pantheon Int C1840
Interior view of the Pantheon

Napoleon I / Ashes / Inside
NAPOLEON I His ashes are brought to Paris and are taken to Les Invalides. This interior scene shows where they were placed

Napoleon I / Ashes / Bougard
NAPOLEON I His ashes are brought to Paris and a procession takes them down the Champs Elysees which is lined with soldiers

Kings / Mackenzie
The classic view from the far side of the Backs - a gowned don discusses philosophy or something with a female friend, girls sit sedately, boys bowl their hoops boisterously

A Parting Kiss C1840
When your friend bids an over- affectionate farewell to your wife, you begin to wonder - and suddenly hes not so much of a friend as before

Birmingham / New St / 1840
New St, Birmingham

England / Birmingham / 1840
Birds eye view of Birmingham

England / Cheltenham / 1840
The Montpelier Spa, Cheltenham

Hooghly Bore
A native boat tosses in the bore of the Hooghly, the most important channel of the Ganges river in its estuary in West Bengal

ZOLA / GILL 1886
EMILE ZOLA French writer and champion of Dreyfus

Paganini (Anon)
NICCOLO PAGANINI Italian musician, with signature

Paganini (Begas)
NICCOLO PAGANINI Italian musician

Mettray / General View
Birds eye view of the Agricultural Colony at Mettray, France, where street children are taught farming and occupational skills

Killing the Goose
Killing the goose (picture 3 of 4)

Demon & Horse Shoe
A cottager nails a horse-shoe over his front door, thereby frustrating the Devil who is lurking nearby with evil intentions

Sacramento Circa 1840
Settled in 1839 by John Sutter during the California Gold Rush, Sacramento rapidly became an important trading centre, and was made State Capital in 1854

St Petersburg Church
Interior of the Kazan church

Serbia - Zemun
City on the Danube, formerly known as Semlin

Hungary - Esztergom
(also known as Gran) Seen from across the Danube

Moscow Czaritzana
The Czaritzana Palace, outside Moscow

Ukraine - Odessa
Distant view of the city (also spelt Odesa)

St Petersburg under Snow
The city under snow - the church of saint Isaac in the distance

Swiveller & Marchioness
Dick Swiveller is disturbed at his writing desk by The Marchioness, the poor little servant girl kept locked below stairs by the Brass family

Paris Soiree / Eugene Lami
A Parisien soiree

Proverbs / Mice Will Play
When the cats away the mice will play

Aquatint / Country / Morning
Morning The man goes off with his dog leaving the woman at their cottage doing the washing

Woolwich / Academy / Anon
The ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY - soldiers exercising on the parade ground

Marine Life / Whaling
Whaling in the Arctic

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