1793 Collection (page 11)

Social / Britain Vicar 18C
A farmers wife wears a white gown & apron, black pelerine, shoes with pointed toes & vamps, a mob cap, straw hat & pink belt. Her son wears a smock & blue stockings

Revolutionary Costume
Costumes of the French Revolutionaries: phrygian caps with tricolor cockades, pantaloons (sans-culottes), greatcoat, breeches are worn with a short military jacket

Cambridge / Adolphus 1793
ADOLPHUS FREDERICK, duke of CAMBRIDGE 7th son of George III

W Murray Earl Mansfield
1ST EARL OF MANSFIELD William Murray M.P. and lord chief justice

Chappe Optical Telegraph
The optical telegraph of Claude Chappe and his brother, erected on the Eglise de Montmartre, is tested by the French authorities and his system is widely adopted

Macready / Lear / Act 5 Sc 3
William Charles Macready, the English tragedian plays King Lear in Shakespeares play of the same name

Plants / Aster Alpinus
ALPINE ASTER

Karl J L Almquist
KARL JONAS LUDWIG ALMQUIST Swedish writer with his autograph

Hedwige Nordenflycht
HEDWIGE CHARLOTTA NORDENFLYCHT (or Nordenfleicht) Swedish poetess

Daughters of Albion
VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION A criticism of the sexual morals and organised religion of Blakes time

Mesmer and Bailly
Mesmer, whose work had been unfavourably reported by Bailly, salutes the latter as he is led to the guillotine

Victims of Terror
The names of imprisoned aristocrats are read out, summoning them to the guillotine

Chambarlhac in Alps
General J J F Chambarlhac distinguishes himself in the Alpine campaign, leading his men to capture the defences of Mont Carmel

Battle of Kircksberg
Antoine Arnaud, general de brigade, leads his men into battle in the finest heroic tradition in the course of the fighting in the Netherlands

Hedwige Nordernflycht
Hedwige Nordenflycht Swedish Poet

Marat / Raffet / Bosselman
JEAN-PAUL MARAT French revolutionary statesman

DUC D ORLEANS (-1793)
Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d ORLEANS (known as Philippe Egalite ) despite his revolutionary sympathies, he was guillotined for supposed treason

Jean-Marie Roland
JEAN-MARIE ROLAND de la PLATRIERE French revolutionary

Juan Manuel De Rosas
JUAN MANUEL DE ROSAS Argentinian dictator

Countess of Barry
JEANNE BECU, COMTESSE DU BARRY Paris shopgirl who became mistress to Louis XV but was guillotined during the Revolution

Siege of Toulon 1793
THE SIEGE OF TOULON The French besiege Toulon, held by the British : Napoleon, making his first notable appearance, is largely responsible for the success

Napoleon at Toulon
His successful siege of Toulon forces the English to evacuate the town

N Commands Artillery
He obtains the command of the artillery at Toulon, and explains his plans to his superiors

J a B D entrecasteaux
JOSEPH ANTOINE BRUNI d ENTRECASTEAUX French navigator

Louis Xvi / Hersent / Lefevr
LOUIS XVI Louis XVI displays charity in the winter of 1788

Jean-Marie Roland De LA
JEAN-MARIE ROLAND DE LA PLATRIERE - French royalist during the French Revolution (husband of Mme Roland )

Marie Antoinette (Cost)
MARIE ANTOINETTE in plain dress and holding a rose

Custine / French Military
ADAM-PHILIPPE DE COMTE CUSTINE French Army Officer

Plants / Nigella Damascena
Love-In-A-Mist, or Devil-In-A-Bush, or Garden Fennel

Hunting Deer 1793
Stag at Bay

John Hunter / Reynolds?
JOHN HUNTER Scottish medical

John Hunter / Bones
JOHN HUNTER Scottish medical, with some bones

Whitneys Gin
WHITNEYs COTTON GIN which enabled cotton fibre to be separated from the seeds mechanically

Napoleon 1793 Supper
NAPOLEON in 1793 at the Supper of Beaucaire where he developed his political ideas in a conversation subsequently written up as a book

LAING (1793 - 1826)
ALEXANDER GORDON LAING - British traveller in Africa

Louis XVI, King of France, full length portrait
Louis XVI, King of France (1754-1793, reigned 1774-1792). A full length portrait in royal robes

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French Jesuit missionary to China
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, a French Jesuit missionary to China

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