1780 Collection (page 9)

Monkey Pagoda / 1780
Inside the celebrated Pagod of the Monkeys in Japan, several devotees pray while others make offerings

Elizabeth Fry
ELIZABETH FRY prison reformer with her autograph

Toilet / Hair / False Hair
Satire on the latest hair fashions - a monkey steals a ladys wig

Peru Trujillo
European vessels and native craft in the harbour of Trujillo (formerly Truxillo)

Science / Galvani / Electric
Galvani experimented with static electricity to show the current stimulated nerves and muscles of frogs and other animals

Stonehenge (Elongated!)
A rather impressionistic view of Stonehenge, with the stones themselves strangely lengthened to convey a slightly greater scale than is actually the case!

Bridge St / Chester / Marell
Street scene in Bridge Street

Two Drunks (Bobbin)
Two ugly old drunks have a drop together, with one man rubbing his eye

Selfish Drunk (Bobbin)
A thirsty fellow covets his companions jug of drink with bulging eyes

FRENCHWOMAN 1780 - 1
On the eve of the Revolution, this aristocrat wears a gown with absurdly exaggerated hips, contrasting with her narrow waist and low cut bodice

Aristocrat Ca 1780
An aristocratic lady on the eve of the Revolution

FRENCHWOMAN 1780 - 2
Frills and tucks galore on this impractical gown, worn by a lady of Louis XVIs court shortly before the Revolution

French Women 1780
Aristocratic ladies on the eve of the Revolution - sad to think that many of them will shortly lose not only those elegant bonnets, but also the heads wearing them

Thomas Chalmers(Sartait)
THOMAS CHALMERS Scottish theologian and preacher. Author of Christian and civil economy

Men and Women Ca 1780
Men, women and children in the fashionable dress of well-to- do people on the eve of the French Revolution

Ships in Stormy Sea
Ships in stormy seas during a hurricane, off the coast of Antilles

Musaeus Collecting
The German writer J K A Musaeus collects traditional stories from peasants, which he worked up as fairy-tales and published in 1782+

Josephines Prophecy
An old negress of Martinique tells Josephine de Tascher that one day she will be a queen : sure enough, her second marriage is to Napoleon and she becomes an empress

David Porter (Chappel)
DAVID PORTER U. S. naval

Ingres / Paquier / Chapon
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French Artist

Frances Trollope W Holl
FRANCES TROLLOPE - Writer and mother of author Anthony Trollope

Edw. Lord Thurlow 1780
EDWARD, 1st baron THURLOW Lord Chancellor

Comm. Dell arte / Cassandre
Comm.Dell arte/Cassandre

12th Earl of Derby
EDWARD STANLEY 12TH EARL OF DERBY Founder of the English Derby horse-racing event (1780). Cartoon of him with his second wife, Eliza Farren

DEFFAND (1679 - 1780)
MARIE DE VICHY-CHAMROND MARQUISE DU DEFFAND French social leader, saloniste and friend of Voltaire, Walpole and D Alembert

Parmentier and Potato
French agriculturist Antoine PARMENTIER presents a potato to Louis XVI; some laughed, but the king placed a shoot in his buttonhole in recognition of Parmentiers achievement

Costume / Man 1780 France
French gentleman in court dress during the reign of Louis XVI

Maria Theresia / Portrait
MARIA THERESIA Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, daughter of Emperor Carl VI, wife of Emperor Franz I, mother of Emperor Joseph II

Ingres (Lafosse)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French Artist

Charles Stanhope / Harring
Charles Stanhope 4th Earl Harrington Lord Petersham until 1829 out Walking

Eb De Condillac / Bramati
ETIENNE BONNOT DE CONDILLAC French philosopher

Ship Off the Coast
Small boats part company from a sailing vessel off the coast as it heads out into the open sea

Maria Theresia / Miniature
MARIA THERESIA Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, daughter of Emperor Carl VI, wife of Emperor Franz I, mother of Emperor Joseph II

Versailles / Hameau
LE HAMEAU the rustic hamlet where Marie Antoinette and her companions liked to play at being nymphs and shepherdesses

Mary Somerville / Croll
MARY SOMERVILLE nee FAIRFAX Scottish writer on mathematics and physical science

Syon House / Middx C1780
Syon House, Middlesex, seat of the Duke of Northumberland

Major John Andre - 3
MAJOR JOHN ANDRE Military in America, where he was captured and hanged as a spy

Aristocratic Couple 1780
She watches from beneath her parasol while he helps himself to a pinch of snuff; she moves her head carefully so as not to endanger her elaborately high-piled hair-do

French Extravagance
The ladys bustle is big enough for someone to ride pillion; her elegant companion might admire her hat, but his eyes are on her prominently projecting bosom

Abbe and Housemaid 1780
A French Abbe, whose mind should be on higher things, takes a close interest in a servant girl who wears a sack-back gown hitched up to form a bustle/polanaise

Wellborn Couple 1780
Well-born couple in outdoor dress

Racial / Eskimo / Kamchatka
Eskimos of Kamchatka, Russia in their winter home

Racial / Polish Jew / Simon
Henry Simons, The Polish Jew

C18 French Concert
A singer and four musicians perform in an aristocratic household

Basket Coach 1780
The Basket Coach, so called because it has a basket at the back to hold the luggage

Buffon / Monkeys
HISTOIRE NATURELLE A typical spread from the English edition of his Natural History, plates CCLXVIII and CCLXIX, depicting species of monkey

Man Smoking a Pipe
A portrait of Aesop, the Drunken Rhyming Cobler (sic) of Eton smoking a clay pipe

Gordon Rioters in Street
Gordon rioters are pressed back in the London streets by government soldiers

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