1810 Gallery

The Light Dragoons 1790 - 1992

The evolving uniform of The Light Dragoons. From Left - 13th Light Dragoons 1790, 18th Light Dragoons 1810, 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) 1930, The Light Dragoons 1st December 1992, 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars 1930, 15th Light Dragoons 1815 and the 19th Light Dragoons 1790. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

© Mary Evans/Malcolm Greensmith Collection

Saartje Baartman, also known as The Hottentot Venus

Saartje ('Sarah') Baartman (1789-1815), also known as The Hottentot Venus - an African servant girl from South Africa's Eastern Cape of the Khoisan tribe brought to London in 1810 & exhibited at freak shows and private events there and in Paris, where she died 1815, with sections of her body preserved and displayed at Paris's Museum of Man (until 1974). Her remains were repartriated to South Africa and re-interred in 2002. Date: 1811

© Mary Evans Picture Library

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). History of Mexico

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). History of Mexico: from the Conquest to 1930. 1929 - 1931. Detail of the central wall with scenes and characters from the conquest of Cort鳬 the War of Independence of 1810 and the Zapatista revolution. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. National Palace

© CAGP/Iberfoto/Mary Evans