1785 Collection (page 6)

Burns / Second Epistle
SECOND EPISTLE TO DAVIE A Brother Poet Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle; Lang may your elbow jink an diddle

Guardian statues, Wat Phra Keo, Bangkok, Thailand
A row of guardian statues lining the elaborate Phra Mondop (Library) of the Wat Phra Keo (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), Bangkok, Thailand

Mary Chaworth (1785-1832)
Illustration showing Mary Chaworth, the woman who George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, was infatuated with from a young age

Inhabitant of the Moon
An inhabitant of the Moon

Manzoni / Hayez / Ilz 1923
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian novelist and poet

England / Lichfield 1785
View near Lichfield (Staffordshire) " including a most remarkably large willow tree"

Elizabeth Bonaparte
ELIZABETH BONAPARTE daughter of William Patterson of Baltimore, first wife of Napoleons brother Jerome. The marriage was annulled after two years 1803 - 1805

Blanchard Leaves Dover
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies leave Dover on their cross-Channel flight which makes them the first people to cross from England to France by air

The Wapping Concert
A satire on Madame Mara, a concert singer. She sang at the Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey in 1784 and 1785. She had rickets in her childhood - hence Le Genou Inflexible

FAN / BALLOONS / 1785
A silk folding fan with decorative carved sticks depicting various balloons and other attempts at flight, including those by Dollfus and Montgolfier

Hawaii / Mowee 1785
Hawaii (Sandwich Islands): La Perouse anchored at Mowee

Louis XVI & LA Perouse
Louis XVI discusses his plans with navigator La Perouse, who will make important discoveries in the southern hemisphere (we have his book)

Thomas Love Peacock / 18
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK English novelist and poet at the age of 18

Thomas Love Peacock / 72
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK English novelist and poet at the age of 72

Louvre Interior 1795
Visitors to the Louvre admire the large collection of oil paintings on display at the Salon du Louvre in 1785

Handel Commemoration
The Handel Commemoration, when a Royal Box was specially installed so that their majesties could enjoy the performance in style

Wimbledon Park House
Earl Spencers house in Wimbledon Park, the successor to the one built for Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough which burned down in 1785

Trippers at Scarborough
A party of holiday-makers stand on the cliffs of Scarborough, Yorkshire : the ladies hair-dos and hats are in the height of fashion

Bettina Von Arnim (Staal
BETTINA VON ARNIM wife of Ludwig von Arnim, correspondent of Goethe

Blanchard Flies Channel2
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

J. F. Pilatre De Rozier
JEAN-FRANCOIS PILATRE DE ROZIER French physicist and aeronaut. First human being to ascend in a balloon, with Montgolfier

Thomas De Quincey / Home
THOMAS DE QUINCEY English authors home at Nab Cottage, Ambleside

Manzoni / Freeman
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian novelist and poet

A M M T Berenger
Alphonse Marie Marcelin Thomas BERENGER French statesman

Pierre-Antoine Lebrun
PIERRE-ANTOINE LEBRUN French writer and statesman

Charles Green / Aeronaut
CHARLES GREEN English aeronaut who pioneered the use of coal gas in place of hydrogen in hot air balloons

Thomas Troubridge
Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE naval commander

Blanchard Crossing / Cig
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies over the Channel, which they are the first people to cross by air, from Dover to the forest of Guines, near Andres

Baron Munchhausen / Books
He is towed through the air by a flight of friendly ducks

Baron Munchausen / Raspe
The notes of a postillions horn are frozen inside it, but they sound when they thaw out, placed near a fire

Baron Munchhausen / Raspe
His portrait by an unnamed artist; frontispiece to the story of his adventures

James Graham, Quack Doc
James Graham, famous Scottish quack doctor, delivers a lecture to an audience. In December 1783, Graham claimed that he knew the secret to living to the age of 150

Chephren Pyramid & Cave
The Chephren pyramid and a cave (contaning a bas-relief) which was inhabited, until October/November 1785, by the Santon denomination of Ermite (hermit) Muslims

Grimm Bros / German Mag
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM German folklorists and philologists

Grimm Bros / Sichling
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM German folklorists and philologists

Lady Caroline Lamb / Find
LADY CAROLINE LAMB nee Ponsonby : wife of William Lamb (later viscount Melbourne) : writer, fervent admirer of Byron for love of whom she became insane

Lady Caroline Lamb / Meyer
LADY CAROLINE LAMB nee Ponsonby : wife of William Lamb (later viscount Melbourne) : writer, fervent admirer of Byron for love of whom she became insane

Duc De Choiseul
ETIENNE FRANCOIS, DUC DE CHOISEUL French statesman, minister of foreign affairs for Louis XV

Troops at Gravesend
British troops cross the Thames from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort, on flat- boats drawn on ropes : besides men, guns, horses and wagons are carried, spectators watch

Mesmer Homme Baquet
Five minutes of treatment by the baquet-homme suffice to produce wonderful effects on an ailing body thanks to the forces emitted by the eight bottles round the octagon

Parliament James II
James II presides over Parliament during his brief reign

Catherine Clive - 2
CATHERINE ( KITTY ) CLIVE Irish singer and actress

Catherine Clive - 1
CATHERINE ( KITTY ) CLIVE Irish singer and actress

James Edward Oglethorpe
JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE Portrait of English soldier, politician and philanthropist

Louis XVI Syyle Room
A French room in the style of Louis XVI

Aa Parmentier / French Cd
ANTOINE-AUGUSTIN PARMENTIER introduces the potato to France, 1785

Cartwrights Loom
CARTWRIGHTs POWER LOOM Edmund Cartwrights steam- powered loom of 1785 enabled weaving to be carried out at vastly greater speed

NAPOLEON / 1785 / AGE 16
NAPOLEON, in 1785, at age 16

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