1787 Collection (page 6)

Thos. Hopkins Gallaudet
THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET American educator who after studying in Paris introduced methods for teaching the deaf and dumb, and advocated teacher training institutions

Boat of Tartary 1787
Boat of Tchoka, Tartary, observed by La Perouse in the course of his famous voyage

Fitch Steamboat 1
John Fitchs first steamboat makes a successful trip on the Delaware River

Law and Equity, or a peep at Nando s

Russia / La Perouse / Langle
La Perouse on the Tartar coast: Langle Bay

Puryne / Purkinje
JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNE (or Purkinje) - Bohemian physiologist from Prague, friend of Goethe

Perouse / Easter Island
While friendly native girls amuse La Perouses crew, their companions take their hats and handkerchiefs

Perouse / Massacred / Easter
De Langle and other members of La Perouses voyage are massacred at Maouna, Samoan Islands

William Etty / Arnold s
WILLIAM ETTY English painter

Josef Gersbach
JOSEF ANTON GERSBACH German musical composer - but is this Anton (1803 - 1848) or Josef Anton ? Date: 1787 - 1830

Charles De Vergennes - 2
CHARLES GRAVIER, comte de VERGENNES French statesman

Jan Evangelista Purkyne
JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNE (also spelt Purkinje) Bohemian physiologist

Affair of the Necklace
Countess de la Motte & her maid escaping after the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. Marie Antoinettes supposed involvement helped discredit the monarchy

Parisian Lady 1787
A bourgeois Parisienne just before the revolution

Dog Sleigh Kamchatka
A dog-team draw a sledge in Kamchatka, Russia, observed by the French Traveller La Perouse during his journey round the world

LA Perouse at Easter I
Officers from the expedition measure the statues while the islanders pilfer their belongings

Georgiana / Duchess / Sewell
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wears a hat of the period - a broad brimmed hat with the crown adorned with ostrich plumes over frizzed hair with large ringlets

Mary R Mitford / A Burt
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD English novelist and dramatist

Menshikov / Aleksandr / Iln
PRINCE ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH MENSHIKOV Russian soldier who commanded forces in the Crimea

C L G Marquis Audiffret
Charles Louis Gaston, marquis d AUDIFFRET French statesman

Fpg Guizot / Fuhr / Pantheon
FRANCOIS-PIERRE-GUILLAUME GUIZOT French historian and politician

Johann N Von Dreyse / Winv
JOHANN NIKOLAUS VON DREYSE German inventor of weapons

Claremont / Surrey 1787
Claremont, Surrey

Easter Island Canoe
Canoe of the Easter Islanders

Hat Styles for 1787
Hats profusely ornamented with feathers, bows, ribbons & flowers. Stripes are very much in vogue. Some have broad flat brims, others have a brim that tapers outwards & downwards

Guizot Speaking
FRANCOIS-PIERRE-GUILLAUME GUIZOT - French statesman, depicted in Napoleonic stance, addressing an audience. When he fell from favour, he took to writing history

Bruce Castle, 1787
Bruce Castle in Middlesex, the seat of James Townsend. Later it will become a museum, and our Library will act as agent for its collection, notably of postal items

Sydling, Dorset and Hunt
A fine view of Sir John Smiths country home in Dorset I dare say thats sir John returning home from the hunt with his huntsman and hounds

Plants / Gossypium Sp
MALE COTTON PLANT found in Chile

Plants / Primula Villosa
MOUNTAIN PRIMULA

Tarantula in Spain
Spanish tarantulas and their eggs : above is T Hembra (female), below it T Macho (male), together with Obarios (ovaries) and a Capullo (coccoon) housing 3 ovaries

Sir Harry Smith - 1
SIR HARRY SMITH - soldier and administrator whose arrogant and insensitive policies, coupled with his incompetence, led to catastrophe for the Xhosa (Kaffirs)in South Africa

Chaka, Zulu Chief
CHAKA, (Shaka, Tshaka) Zulu leader who ruthlessly conquered and ruled most of southern Africa : depicted here on a product label for a humdrum domestic product !

Marguerite Georges
MARGUERITE GEORGES WEYMER French actress, made her Paris debut in 1802 and was briefly the mistress of Napoleon

Napoleon Enlists, 1787
He enlists in the regiment of La Fere

Jasminum Officinale
COMMON JASMINE

Gluck / Eichhorn
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK German composer

Ruggiero Boscovich
RUGGIERO GIUSEPPE BOSCOVICH Italian/Croatian scientist and advocate of Newtons theories

Bisham Abbey, Berkshire - home of George Vansittart in 1787

Josef Von Fraunhofer
JOSEF VON FRAUNHOFER - German scientist (optician)

Science / Fraunhofer
JOSEF VON FRAUNHOFER demonstrates his spectrometer at Munchen, 1814

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