1811 Collection (page 11)

James Young Simpson / Bing
SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON Scottish physician, first to use ether as an anaesthetic in obstetric practice

George Gilbert Scott / Iln
SIR GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT English architect

VINCENT EYRE 1811 - 1881
VINCENT EYRE Military figure. Was imprisoned in Afghanistan

Mosaic Pavement
A section of a marvellous collection of mosaics found at a Roman Villa site at Bignor, W.Sussex. This particular corner motif is a depiction of winter

Robert Raikes / Drummond
ROBERT RAIKES Promoter of Sunday Schools

Surgical Instruments
Variety of surgical instruments

Richmond Palace / Eastgate
Richmond Palace, Surrey, built by Henry VII

Merlins Wheelchair
Merlins Mechanical Chair has built-in controls enabling it to be adjusted and propelled in any required direction, at the pleasure of the operator

FUENTES D ONORO 1811
Battle of Fuentes d Onoro : Wellington manages to defeat Massena but comments If Boney had been there we would have been damnably licked

Gautier (Nadar)
THEOPHILE GAUTIER French writer

Liszt Cigarette Card
FRANZ LISZT the Hungarian composer and musician in old age

Liszt Mulnier Photo
FRANZ LISZT the Hungarian composer and musician in old age

Liszt / Pianist / Vie Parisi
A humorous comment on the Hungarian composers dramatic keyboard technique

Liszt Smiling
FRANZ LISZT the Hungarian musician in old age with a benign smile on his face

Game / Kissing / France 1811
Men have adopted English country clothes & wear cut-away coats with roll collars, the women wear white cotton robes with sleeves that extend over the knuckles

Vissarion Belinsky
VISSARION BELINSKY Russian critic, exiled from Moscow, staunch supporter of Russian culture and character

James Young Simpson / Bmj
SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON Scottish physician, first to use ether as an anaesthetic

Planetarium by Jones
A planetarium by Jones

Charles Kean / R3 Gloster
Charles Kean as Gloucester in Shakespeares Richard III Act I Scene I

Bougainville on River
LOUIS-ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE French naval, navigator, geographer, shown crossing the river of Santa Lucia in a canoe drawn by horses

L-A De Bougainville
LOUIS-ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE French naval, navigator, geographer

John Bright as Quaker
JOHN BRIGHT, statesman, depicted as a Quaker, opposing the territorial party (the landowners) and declaring that the Constitution may have to be reformulated or destroyed

Orazio Antinori
ORAZIO, marchese ANTINORI Italian traveller

Thackeray (Selfport)
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc

Fanny Kemble as Juliet
FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (later mrs Butler) as Juliet in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, depicted on the balcony awaiting the arrival of her new friend

MEHMET ALI / 1811
Mehmet Ali, Ottoman viceroy in Egypt, watches on as Mameluke leaders are massacred on his orders

Buck Fraying Antlers
A buck frays its antlers

Napoleon II Baptised
Baptism of Napoleons son, k.a. le Roi de Rome, in the chapel of the Tuileries, He will never actually reign, and after his fathers abdication will live in exile in Austria

Etienne Autie in Action
Colonel JEAN FRANCOIS ETIENNE AUTIE leads his men against the enemy during the Pyrenees campaign of the Revolutionary War

Churches / Banwell / 1811
Banwell Church, Somerset

John Lawrence / Vfair 1871
JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE 1st BARON LAWRENCE Governor-General of India

Battle of Fuentes Donoro
PENINSULA CAMPAIGN Battle of FUENTES DE ONORO Wellington defeats Massena, admitting If Boney had been there we would have been damnably licked !

Heinrich Von Kleist
HEINRICH VON KLEIST German writer

Napoleon Reviewing
He reviews the Imperial Guard

Comet of 1811 over Paris
A comet seen in 1811 from Paris, quite possibly the same one which was seen at daybreak from Otterbourne Hill, Winchester, England on October 15th

Horace Greeley / Hornet
HORACE GREELEY American statesman and journalist who advised young men to go West

John Bright (Hornet)
JOHN BRIGHT statesman

Louis Blanc / Goupil
LOUIS BLANC French statesman and writer

Boxing / Cribb V Molyneux
The Close of the Battle, or The Champion Triumphant

Henry Liddell / Silvy Cdv
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL English classical scholar ordained in Anglican church. It was for his daughter Alice that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland

William Thackeray / Centur
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY English novelist in 1855-56

William Thackeray / Chapel
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY English novelist

Louis Blanc / Moloch
LOUIS BLANC French socialist Caricature

Racial /s Africa / Hottentot
SaRTJE BaRTMAN, also known as The Hottentot Venus - African servant girl brought to London 1810 & exhibited there and in Paris, where she died 1815, her body preserved

Evariste Galois, French mathematician. Sadly, he died in a duel at the age of 20

Ambroise Thomas / 1875
AMBROISE THOMAS French musician

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