1808 Collection (page 7)

First Wolrd War (1915)
NAPOLON III, Charles-Louis Napol on Bonaparte (1808-1873). President of the 2nd Republic (1848-1852) and emperor of France (1852-1870)

BONAPARTE, Joseph (1768-1844)

DAVID, Jules (1808-1892)

Spain (1808). The Mutiny of Aranjuez. Charles IV abdicates and gives the crown to his son Ferdinand (19th March 1808)

Darley, Fox Octavius Carr
ESPRONCEDA, Jos de (1808-1842). Spanish romantic poet. Anonympus portrait supposedly of young Espronceda (midd. 19th c.)

MURAT, Joachim (1767-1815). French military man and politician, King of Naples (1808-1815). Litography

SPAIN. Pealba de Castro. Cliff. Mutiny of Aranjuez (19th March 1808). Seize and prison of Manuel Godoy. Litography

PILLEMENT, Jean (1728-1808). Landscape. Neoclassicism. Oil on canvas

The Old Doorwoman by DAUMIER, Honor (1808-1879). Realism. Painting; Oil on canvas

Spain. War of Independence. Siege in Zaragoza (June-August 1808). Etching

Duncan Alex Cameron
Sir DUNCAN ALEXANDER CAMERON Scottish soldier, notably in New Zealand 1861 Date: 1808 - 1888

Napoleon III out Riding
LOUIS NAPOLEON III out riding with his wife Date: 1808 - 1873

Sir Guy Carleton
SIR GUY CARLETON First baron Dorchester Military commander and administrator. Date: 1724 - 1808

Anne Brunton, Actress
ANNE BRUNTON - actress wife of writer Robert Merry, as Monimia in The orphan. Date: 1769 - 1808

George Baron Bramwell
GEORGE WILLIAM, baron BRAMWELL judge, sketched in court. Date: 1808 - 1892

Echinus, or Sea Urchin
Six examples of the Echinus (of the class Echinoidea), or Sea Urchin. 1808

Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 1808
Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, 1808. Date: 1808

French army in the Portuguese mountains, 1808
The French army, under Jean-Andoche Junot, in the mountains of Portugal during the Peninsular War. Date: 1808

Jefferson Davis
JEFFERSON DAVIS American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy. with his autograph Date: 1808 - 1889

James Nasmyth
JAMES NASMYTH Scottish engineer, inventor of the steam hammer - hence this caricature. Date: 1808 - 1890

Marshal Macmahon
MARIE-EDMOND-PATRICE-MAURICE, comte de MACMAHON, duc de Magenta, marechal de France, President : a fine soldier but a disappointing statesman. Date: 1808 - 1893

William L Alexander
WILLIAM LINDSAY ALEXANDER Scottish theologian, Professor of Theology at Edinburgh University. Date: 1808 - 1884

Thieving Lane
Old buildings in the lane

Claude Anthime Corbon / Gill
Claude Anthime Corbon (1808-1891) French politician, deputy of the Seine (1871) and senator (1875)

Rev. Henry Mackenzie (1808-1892)
Engraved portrait of the Right Rev. Dr. Henry Mackenzie (1808-1892), then Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, pictured in 1870

John Scott Russell, 1858
Engraved portrait showing John Scott Russell (1808-1882), the Scottish engineer and naval architect, pictured in 1858

Napoleon and Son
NAPOLEON III contemplates his son and wonders what their future will be : he has good reason to be pessimistic - four years from now, they will both be in exile in England

Charterhouse School Room
The School Room at Charterhouse School at the original site in Newgate (the site of a Carthusian Monastery)

Gerard De Nerval
GERARD DE NERVAL (real name G Labrunie) French writer, always eccentric, finally insane

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
Portrait of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States during the American Civil war of 1861-65

Caroline Norton / Carrick
CAROLINE NORTON nee SHERIDAN English writer

Caroline Norton / Hayter
CAROLINE NORTON nee SHERIDAN English writer, writing

Alexander Dalrymple
ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE Hydrographer to the Admiralty with his autograph

Sir Henry Cole
SIR HENRY COLE Civil servant, museum director, artist, editor

James Anderson, Economist
JAMES ANDERSON - Scottish economist and inventor : actively concerned with the Scottish fisheries, and in agricultural reform, where he made valuable innovations

Duc De Persigny
Jean Gilbert Victor Fialan, duc de PERSIGNY French diplomat, statesman, nobleman, depicted here as a court monkey in Napoleon IIIs entourage

Elizabeth Alexander 106
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Oxford-born resident of Hanway Street, Tottenham Court Road, London : she had 9 children and was supposed to be the oldest woman in England

After Battle of Baylen
The people of Baylen raise their flag after their Patriotic Army defeats a (much larger) French force under Dupont, who surrenders his whole army to the Spanish

Napoleon III as Vulture
NAPOLEON III caricatured as a vulture, with France as his bleeding victim

Macmahon / Comte / Gill
Marie-Edme-Patrice-Maurice, comte de MACMAHON French soldier and statesman, a good soldier but a hopeless statesman

Maria Felicia Malibran
Singer, born in Paris. Eldest daughter of Manual Garcia. In 1825 performed for the first time in London with the Italian Opera Company

Sultan Selim III
SELIM III - a keen reformer, he angers vested interests with his ideas, is deposed in 1807 and murdered by strangulation after a years imprisonment

Hamburg Flowerseller
A flower-seller of Hamburg invites you to buy a bunch

Custom House 1808
The Custom House seen from the Thames, with a variety of river boats and shipping

Asylum Dining Hall
The dining room of the Asylum, or House of Refuge, at Lambeth, for the reception of friendless and deserted girls

Cold-Bath Fields Prison
The Water-Engine Court, where prisoners at hard labour work for an hour at a stretch

Liberty Rouses Europe
Liberty, pointing to the success of Spain and Portugal (with a little help from England) in resisting France, urges the rest of Europe to arise against tyranny !

Coal Exchange, London
The Coal Exchange is where the 960, 000 chaldrons of coal (each of 36 bushels) imported from Newcastle etc each year to keep Londoners warm, are regulated and, of course, taxed

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