1792 Collection

Plants / Dianthus Barbatus
Sweet William, or Bearded Pink

John Paul Jones
Americans would be indignant to see their gallant naval hero portrayed on the London stage as a PIRATE ! - yet here he is, as acted by Mr Elsgood with bravo galore

Percy Shelley / Finden
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY English romantic poet

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in wedding costumes
Louis XVI, King of France (1754-1793, reigned 1774-1792) with his wife Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) in their wedding costumes at the ages of 15 and 14 respectively

Charles Babbage
CHARLES BABBAGE Mathematician and engineer

Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Italian composer, best known for his operas

Anne, Lady Byron (Anon)
ANNA ISABELLA MILBANKE Lady Byron (1815 to 1816)

Cricketer, Lillywhite
Frederick William Lillywhite Cricketer - Sussex

Map of Greece, 1792
Map of Greece and Greek islands plus Romania (which appears on this map to be incorrectly labelled or positioned south of Bulgaria), Macedonia, Albania and parts of Turkey and Italy

Map / Europe / Balkans 1792
A map showing Turkey in Europe and its neighbouring European states of the Balkans

John Paul Jones, Pirate
JOHN PAUL JONES American naval commander, depicted as a pirate

SCHLESINGER, Jacob (1792-1855). Portrait of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Oil on canvas

John Burgoyne / Chapman
JOHN BURGOYNE Dramatist and army officer (he surrendered at Saratoga in 1777)

JOHN KEBLE churchman who initiated the Oxford Movement, hymn writer and poet

Princesse De Lamballe
MARIE THERESE LOUISE DE SAVOIE princesse LAMBALLE, friend of Marie Antoinette and one of the most shocking victims of the Revolution not long after this portrait was made

W & M Howitt / Stereo Cdv
WILLIAM AND MARY HOWITT (Mary: nee BOTHAM) Writers - husband and wife

Hannah Snell / Maddocks
HANNAH SNELL Female soldier

Rossini Balestrieri
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI composing his opera Il Barbieri di Seviglia, first performed on 20 February 1816

4th Earl Sandwich
JOHN MONTAGU Traditionally held to be the inventor of the sandwich for eating at the gaming table

Percy Shelley / Curran / Col
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY English romantic poet

FREDERICK MARRYAT Profile of English naval commander and novelist, best known fo The Children of the New Forest Date: 1792 - 1848

Balloon ascent of Vicente Lunardi (1754-1806) on the Buen Retiro, August 12, 1792. Etching on paper, circa 1793. History Museum. Madrid. Spain

The Border Regiment, Uniforms and Colours - Private (1756), Drummer, 55th Regiment (1792), Grenadier, 55th Regiment (1767) Date: 18th century

Helena Potocka (1763-1815) by Franciszek Smuglewicz
Helena Potocka (1763-1815). Polish Noblewoman. Portrait by Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745-1807), 1788-1792. Oil on canvas. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow

Royal Order of the Noble Ladies of Queen Maria Luisa. Spanish order created by king Charles IV in 1792, reserved only for noble women

Ancient place of tournament near Senlis, France Date: circa 1500

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Los Zancos (Stilts) (1791-1792) - original on display at Museo Nacional del Prado. Date: 1792

Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil, Vide Milton, by James Gillray. A parody of a scene from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, showing Prime Minister William Pitt (left) as Death

INVITATION TO DEATH
The grave's a fine and private place... - Death invites a young aristocrat to join him among the coffins. Date: 1792

LOUIS XVI ON TRIAL
Louis XVI - known as citoyen Louis Capet - appears before the Convention Nationale to hear the charges brought against him. He will be found guilty and condemned to die. Date: 25 December 1792

RIJSFEL besieged by the French revolutionary force Date: 22 September 1792

BATTLE OF JEMAPPES (Belgium) Dumouriez leads the French to victory, enabling them to advance into the Netherlands Date: 6 November 1792

WILLIAM BACKHOUSE ASTOR American financier, son of John Jacob Date: 1792 - 1875

Louis XVII, titular King of France, son of Louis XVI
Louis XVII (1785 - 1795), titular King of France (1793 - 1795), son of Louis XVI. Imprisoned during the French Revolution from August 1792 until his death in 1795, he never ruled

Reception of the hostages from Tipu Sahib, Sultan of Mysore, by Lord Cornwallis, March 1792. Tipus two sons, aged about ten and eight

Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
Vintage 19th century photograph: Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, GCB, KCSI (20 October 1792 - 14 August 1863), was a British Army officer

Stockwell
Views of old Stockwell - Old mansion on Stockwell Common, 1792; Old inn on Stockwell Common, 1794; Stockwell Chapel, 1800; Stockwell manor house, 1750. Date: 1875

Rectorial House, Newington Butts. Singular building made of oak, chestnut and cedar, with roof in 14 casts or directions forming a well in the centre

The Savoy Hospital in 1650 and in ruins in 1792
The Savoy Hospital in 1650 from a print by Wenceslaus Hollar and in ruins in 1792. On the site of the Savoy Palace built by Peter, Count of Savoy, in the 13th century

Savoy Prison, part of the ancient Palace of the Savoy, used as a military prison in the 18th century. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of

Lord Cornwallis receiving sons of Tipu Sultan as hostages
Lord Cornwallis receiving the sons of Tipu Sultan as hostages. 1792

French bourgeois man, 1792. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, in Temple prison 1792
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, wife to King Louis XVI. In the costume she wore when confined in the Temple prison, 1792

French aristocrats volunteer to join the army of the Republic Date: circa 1792

BATTLE OF JEMAPPES The French under Dumouriez defeat the Austrians led by the Archduke Albrecht, and are enabled to advance into the Netherlands Date: 6 November 1792

MONS The French Revolutionary Army enters the city Date: 7 November 1792

BATTLE OF ANDERLECHT The French take on the Allies in the Low Countries Date: 13 November 1792

CHAMBERY (Savoie) The city yields to the French Revolutionary Army Date: 25 September 1792

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