1805 Collection (page 11)

Auguste Bournonville
AUGUSTE BOURNONVILLE Danish dancer and choreographer

Trafalgar / Graham
The battle rages

The Waltz, Circa 1805
Two Parisian couples whirl around the dance floor

S Wilberforce / Beattie Cv
SAMUEL WILBERFORCE Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester, noted opponent of Darwins theory of natural selection

Ira Aldridge / Aaron
IRA FREDERICK ALDRIDGE known as THE AFRICAN ROSCIUS American actor playing the part of Aaron in Shakespeares Titus Andronicus

Dresses of 1805
Blue day dress with embroidered hem & fingerless gloves, deep red evening robe with melon sleeves, low square corsage with vandyked tucker worn with a turban

S Wilberforce / Mowbray Cv
SAMUEL WILBERFORCE Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester, noted opponent of Darwins theory of natural selection

S Wilberforce / Caldes Cdv
SAMUEL WILBERFORCE Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester, noted opponent of Darwins theory of natural selection

Rosslyn / Wedderburn
Alexander Wedderburn 1st Baron Loughborough 1st Earl of Rosslyn Lord Chancellor

White Gown Blue Slippers
white gown with self- embroidered hem & white scarf worn like braces. Accessories: straw & blue cloth bonnet, folding parasol & green shawl with patterned border

Windsor Theatre 1805
Theatre Royal, Windsor

Norwich Theatre 1805
Theatre at Norwich

Pink Full Dress 1805
A short white transparent tunic with self-coloured embroidery & fringing worn over a pink slip. Worn with long white gloves & a lace handkerchief in her hair

Franz X Winterhalter
FRANZ XAVIER WINTERHALTER Distinguished German portrait painter who worked for Queen Victoria and Napoleon III among many others

Fidelio - Liebig
FIDELIO Act 3 scene 3; Fidelio reveals herself as Leonora, Florestans wife, and menaces the wicked Don Pizarro with a pistol

Fidelio - Liebig - 6
FIDELIO Act 3 scene 7 - Fidelio/Leonora and Florestan are re-united, he is released, Don Pizarro is led away in chains, all is resolved

Fidelio - Liebig - 5
FIDELIO Act 3 scene 3 - Fidelio/Leonora reveals her identity to the evil Don Pizarro and threatens him with a pistol

Fidelio - Liebig - 4
FIDELIO Act 3 scene 2 - Fidelio/Leonora helps Rocco dig a grave for her imprisoned husband Florestan

Fidelio - Liebig - 3
FIDELIO Act 2 scene 8 - the wicked Don Pizarro orders Rocco to dig Florestans grave : he is overheard by Leonora, disguised as Fidelio

Fidelio - Liebig - 1
FIDELIO Act 1 scene 4 : Leonora (disguised as a man) in the home of the jailer Rocco, whose daughter Marcellina fancies her/him

Strawberry Seller
A woman in Covent Garden sells strawberries from a basket balanced on her head and distributes them in cones

French Sailors, Nap. Era
Crewmen on board a French warship sight a cannon on the gun deck

Sporting Fashions C. 1805
A group of ladies enjoy a spell outdoors. Two ladies wear their hair in the fashionable titus cut. Their gowns have half-length sleeves & low, square necklines

Franconi Performs / Circus
Laurent Franconi performs in Paris. Standing on one leg on the back of his black horse, he canters around the outdoor ring

Claude Chappe / Sch Card
CLAUDE CHAPPE French engineer, invented a telegraph system using visual semaphore signals

Napoleon / Pitt / World / 1805
The Plumb-pudding in danger Napoleon and Pitt carve up the world at dinner

Hermopolis Temple
Ruins of the Temple of Hermopolis, Upper Egypt, one of the sites surveyed by the French during Napoleons Egyptian campaign

Lord Nelson / Polar Bear
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officers encounter with a fierce polar bear

Lord Nelson / San Josef
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer receiving the Spanish Admirals sword on board the San Josef, Teneriffe, 14 February 1797

Lord Nelson / Privateer
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer: boarding an American privateer in a violent gale, while a Lieutenant on the Lowestoft in 1777

Writing / Examples / Nelson
HORATIO, LORD NELSON Part of a letter from the English naval officer to Emma, Lady Hamilton, dated 19 and 20 October 1805, before the Battle of Trafalgar

Lord Nelson / Young Boy
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer as a young boy

Fanny Mendelssohn
FANNY CAECILIE MENDELSSOHN sister of Felix Mendelssohn, and a composer in her own right - later Fanny Hensel

Fanny Mendelssohn / Scrib
FANNY CAECILIE MENDELSSOHN sister of Felix Mendelssohn, and a composer in her own right - later Fanny Hensel

Ferdinand De Lesseps
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS French engineer, responsible for the Suez Canal

SHILLER 1759 - 1805
Johann Christoph Friedrich German Writer

De Lesseps Amand
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS French diplomat and engineer responsible for the Suez Canal

De Lesseps Lafosse
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS French diplomat and engineer

Trafalgar Day
TRAFALGAR DAY Nelsons victory over the French, on 21 October 1805, is commemorated every year on the deck of his flagship, the Victory, at Portsmouth

French Interior
A French interior in the Napoleonic style

Man & 4 Ladies / Costume
Composite image based on fashion plates. Man: top hat, pantaloons, cut-away coat with M-cut collar, cane & striped waistcoat. Women: white muslin dresses with puffed sleeves

John Bull Goes to War
John Bull going to the Wars (probably the Napoleonic Wars)

BON GENRE NO. 20 C. 1805
Une soiree de Coblentz - French emigres flee France, and take refuge in Coblentz just across the German border, where they wait for the Revolution to blow over

Longchamp Gardens C. 1805
Pink robe with short puffed sleeves; white robe with coloured embroidery, Kashmir shawl & long brown gloves; white robe with wrap-over corsage & epaulettes

Frenchwomen C. 1805
Coloured slippers, white gown with ruff & patterned border, robe with low, V corsage & embroidered hem, green robe with white puffed sleeves, high ruff & kashmir shawl

French Dolls C1805
Two French dolls of the post- revolutionary period (Empire)

Royal Exchange (2Nd)
Interior of the second Royal Exchange, London, where business is transacted in the courtyard

DRAPERY 1805
Drapery for a dressing room in the classical style

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