1755 Collection (page 4)

Gustavus Hesselius
GUSTAVUS HESSELIUS Swedish-American artist and organ builder. Date: 1682 - 1755

William Hay
WILLIAM HAY writer Date: 1695 - 1755

Landscape with Banditti (c1755-58). Wilson, Richard 1713/14-1782. Date: 1755-58 (circa)

Ruins of the Gothic Church of the Carmo - Lisbon
Ruins of the Carmo (Convent) - Lisbon Portugal. This mediaeval convent was ruined in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, and the ruins of its Gothic church (the Carmo Church or Igreja do Carmo)

DEBUCOURT, Philibert Louis (1755-1832). The Palais Royal Garden Walk. Litography

Thomas Busby, Musician
THOMAS BUSBY Musical composer. Date: 1755 - 1838

Simon Kenton
SIMON KENTON American pioneer, associate of Daniel Boone. Date: 1755 - 1836

Rufus King, Nat. 1755- Ob. 1827
Rufus King, Nat.1755- Ob.1827. Date 1888

NJ Conte. Obrist der Infanterie, Mitglied des Aegyptischen Instituts, geb. zu St. Cnery im Orne Departement den 4ten Aug. 1755, gest. den 6ten Decbr. 1805 zu Paris

Johann Baptist Alxinger
JOHANN BAPTIST von ALXINGER Austrian poet. Date: 1755 - 1797

Barras (In Costume)
PAUL-FRANCOIS, VICOMTE BARRAS French Revolutionary, Jacobin and later enemy of Napoleon I, depicted in his state robes Date: 1755 - 1829

Barras (Ronjat)
PAUL-FRANCOIS, VICOMTE BARRAS French Revolutionary, Jacobin and later enemy of Napoleon I. Date: 1755 - 1829

Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold, Paris, 1793
Engraving showing Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), the wife of King Louis XVI of France, being taken from her prison cell to the guillotine, October 1793

Jean Nic. Corvisart - 2
JEAN NICOLAS CORVISART des Marets French medical

Marie Antoinette / Macdona
queen of Louis XVI, in informal dress

Marie Antoinette & Bust
MARIE ANTOINETTE with a bust of her husband

Marie Antoinette & Kids
MARIE ANTOINETTE receives her children - Le Dauphin, Madame Royale and le duc de Normandie

Marie Antoinette Reads
MARIE ANTOINETTE holding a book

Marie Antoinette Sits
MARIE ANTOINETTE disturbed at her reading

Siddons as Zara
SARAH SIDDONS as Zara in Congreves The mourning bride

Siddons as Euphrasia
SARAH SIDDONS actress as Euphrasia in Arthur Murphys The Grecian Daughter

Siddons as Calista
SARAH SIDDONS actress as Calista in Nicholas Rowes The fair penitent

Siddons as Hermione
SARAH SIDDONS actress as Hermione in Shakespeares The winters tale

Siddons as Medea
SARAH SIDDONS actress as Medea (Euripides)

Lisbon / 1700 / Allard
A view of Lisbon from the sea, before the earthquake of 1755

Lisbon before 1755
A view of Lisbon from the sea, before the earthquake of 1755

Marie Antoinette
MARIE ANTOINETTE, queen of France - engraved from a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun done a year before the revolution

Rufus King (Chappel)
RUFUS KING American statesman and unsuccessful presidential candidate

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN French gastronomist

Montesquieu (Boilly)
CHARLES LOUIS DE SECONDAT, baron de MONTESQUIEU French philosopher, known especially for L Esprit des Lois

Louis Xviii / Kellaway
Louis XVIII of France

Siddons / Rehearsing
SARAH SIDDONS Actress rehearsing in the Green Room with her father, Roger Kemble

Louis Xviii / Isabey Minia
LOUIS XVIII Titular King of France 1795-1814, King from 1814- 1815, 1815-1824. Napoleon reigned for 100 days in 1815 and Louis fled to Ghent

Marie Antoinette / Campana
Queen of Louis XVI, in 1778, when she is 23

Marie Antoinette / Janinot
Queen of Louis XVI, depicted in 1777, at age 22

Circular Bath / Bath
The Circular Roman Bath at Bath, Somerset. The existence of the remains were secret until 1755, when hot water came rushing out of the Roman masonry

Jan Kilinski
JAN KILINSKI Polish revolutionary and patriot

2nd Eddystone Lighthouse
The second (wooden) Eddystone lighthouse, near Plymouth, Devon, is built by Rudyerd : it is nearly 30 metres high but will be destroyed by fire in 1755

Edward Braddock
EDWARD BRADDOCK British Major General and commander in chief of forces in America. Led expedition against Fort Duquesne (1755)

Lisbon Portugal 1809
A view of Lisbon from the sea, after the earthquake of 1755

Vigee Le Brun (Miniature
ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN (nee Vigee) French artist

Lisbon Quake / Ciceri
A panoramic view of the ruined city after the 9.30 am tremors have been followed by a succession of tsunami (tidal waves) and further destruction is being caused by fires

Lisbon Quake / Ruins
Part of the ruined city after the earthquake, which destroyed immense numbers of buildings besides causing the deaths of some 60, 000 people

Lisbon Quake / Justine
A tsunami (tidal wave) sweeps up the North Tagus river at about 11 am, some 90 minutes after the earthquake tremors, and compared by witnesses to a mountain

Siddons / Lady Macbeth
SARAH SIDDONS as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeares Macbeth

Louis XVIII / J Jones
LOUIS XVIII OF FRANCE Louis-Stanislas-Xavier reigned from 1814 - 1824 although he claimed his reigned began in 1795. Shown here when the Count of Provence

Siddons as Belvidera
SARAH SIDDONS (nee Kemble) actress as Belvidera in Otways Venice preserved

Sarah Siddons - Isabella
SARAH SIDDONS (nee Kemble) actress as Isabella in Shakespeares Measure for measure

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