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Woman of SalamancaA woman of Salamanca
1798 Rebel Leaders HeldThe Capture of Colclough and Harvey - English troops offer gentlemanly assistance to woman during arrest of rebel leaders
Ploos Van AmstelJACOB CORNELIS PLOOS VAN AMSTEL Dutch art collector and engraver
French Dancers 1798French couple dancing, during the Directoire. The man is not a war cripple, but holds his left arm behind his back
French DuellistA confident French duellist, from the period of the Directoire
Frenchwoman, DirectoireWell-dressed Frenchwoman of the Directoire period
Soldiers CookingSOLDIERS COOKING British troops in camp - the men take care of the cooking, while their womenfolk do the laundry in the river and hang it out to dry
Delacroix Self-PortraitFERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE DELACROIX French Romantic painter
Pitt Belabours FoxPitt chastises Fox for his support of the French Revolution
Suffering ChilblainsAn unfortunate man rubs ointment on his chilblained feet, while his wife looks on sympathetically
Ladies SkippingThe Fashionable Amusement of Skipping
Sandals in FashionThree ladies compare their sandals - this years fashionable footwear
Adam MickiewiczADAM MICKIEWICZ Polish poet and radical
Charles Wilkes (Chappel)Charles Wilkes U.s. Naval
Egyptian Campaign 1798EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon urges his men across the desert from Alexandria to Cairo, taking the short route via Damanhour
Delacroix / MassonFerdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix French Artist
16th Century TownhousesHouses in Butcher Row, London; the building on the right, demolished in 1798, is supposed to have been where the Gunpowder Plotters did their plotting
Sphinx (Denon)A head-on view of the sphinx as it was found by the French army during Napoleons Egyptian campaign, and recorded by scholars
Napoleon and SphinxNapoleon takes time off from campaigning in Egypt to ponder the Riddle of the Sphinx
Science / Rumford / MunichCount Rumford inspects the cannon production at the military arsenal in Munich. Rumford was interested in the new processes of metallic milling
Fighting for SupremacyEngland and France fight for world supremacy
S. Rosa Di ViterboSanta Rosa of Viterbo has her uncorrupted hand kissed by pope Pius VI, who then as a thank-you to the nuns, allows them to kiss his feet
French Take Malta 1798On his way to Egypt, Napoleon stops at the island of Malta and takes it : the British will take it away from him in 1800, though
Naval Action 1798NAVAL ACTION OFF CANDIA Engagement between the British warship Leander and the French Le Genereux
Jules Michelet / ColletteJULES MICHELET French historian
Jules Michelet / LafosseJULES MICHELET French historian
Events / Ireland 1798Rebels massacre prisoners at Scullarborgue
Battle of Ross 1798Rebels defeated at the Battle of Ross
Auguste Comte / ToulliouAUGUSTE COMTE French philosopher
Auguste Comte / TrinquartAUGUSTE COMTE French philosopher
French Camel Corps 1798Trooper of the Camel Corps of Napoleons Egyptian campaign
Alexander Dyce / CdvAlexander Dyce Scholar
Stanislaw Ii / PolishSTANISLAW II AUGUSTUS PONIATOWSKI Last independent King of Poland (1764-95)
Family on HorsebackA family on horseback
Full Dress 1798Two ladies in full dresses - on the left, lilac dress with green net CURRICLE and yellow muslin BANDEAUX; on the right, a simpler dress but a turban head dress
Working Class Dress 1798Clothing worn by a young, working class woman (a milkmaid) and a young boy and girl who are her customers, at the end of the eighteenth century
Map / Africa / Egypt / AboukirMap of Egypt: Aboukir Bay, scene of the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1798)
Johann & Georg ForsterJOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER and GEORG FORSTER (1754 - 1794) Father and son travellers and writers, who accompanied Cook on his second world voyage
Benjamin Lee GuinnessBENJAMIN LEE GUINNESS Irish brewer; manager (from 1825), sole proprietor (1855) of brewing business founded by his father; first lord mayor of Dublin (1851)
Edward Jenner & PatientEDWARD JENNER In 1798 he announced that if a child is inoculated with cowpox, two months later s/he won t contract smallpox even though inoculated with it
Uprising against FrenchThe populace of Naples rise up against the French
Mariner, Albatross ShotThe Mariner shoots the albatross with his crossbow
Mariner, Two SpiritsThe two spirits powering the ship onwards at great speed over the ocean
Mariner, Boat Spun RoundThe rescue boat gets caught up in the whirlpool created by the sinking ship: Upon the whirl where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round
Naval Combat 1798When Edmond Richers corvette La Bayonnaise is attacked by English frigate Embuscade, a fierce combat is terminated when the French board the English ship and it surrenders
Battle of SedimanAlbeit unlisted in any of our reference books, the battle of SEDIMAN is almost certainly an incident of Napoleons ill-starred Egyptian campaign
French Dromedary CavalryRegiment des Dromadaires, during Napoleons Egyptian campaign