1812 Collection

Dickens / Empty Chair
HIS HOME AT GADSHILL His desk and empty chair after his death, dated 9 June 1870

Dickens & his Creations
Charles Dickens Writer

Charles Dickens / Bibby s
Charles Dickens Writer

Charles Dickens
CHARLES DICKENS English writer, at his writing desk, circa 1860

Little Turtle / Miami
Chief of the Miami tribe who led a number of raids on settlers in the Northwest Territory. He was forced to sign the Treaty of Greenville in 1795

Sergeant - Royal North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Napoleonic War Cartoon
NAPOLEON OVER-REACHES HIMSELF He makes a giant stride from the Peninsula to Russia - but this time he has gone too far

Napoleonic War - Hussar of the French 7th Hussars

Charles Dickens, by Andre Gill, 1868
Engraved caricature of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the English writer, produced by the French artist, Andre Gill, first published in 1868

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote " David Copperfield" etc

Battle of Salamanca
Wellington decisively defeats the French under Marmont at Salamanca, destroying the French army at relatively little cost

Peninsula War: Badajoz
PENINSULA WAR British troops under Wellington and General Picton, storm the garrison at Badajoz

Gads Hill House
The fine red brick house at Gads Hill, near Rochester, Kent. It was here that Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, while writing his novel " Edwin Drood"

Alexander Herzen
ALEXANDER HERZEN Russian revolutionary, editor and writer, son of nobleman, exiled in the west, espoused socialist principles

Napoleon at Moscow
He watches Moscow burn

Samuel Smiles Vanity Fr
SAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859

Robert Browning / Quinnell
ROBERT BROWNING Colour portrait

Maps / Pacific Ocean
Map of the Pacific Ocean on Mercators projection

Napoleonic War - Grenadier of the French Imperial Guard

The Grave of Charles Dickens, Westminster Abbey, 1870
Engraving showing a large group of Victorian visitors to Westminster Abbey crowding round the grave of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), to pay their last respects to the English writer

Squalus maximus, Basking shark taken at Brighton 5 Dec 1812
Watercolour and ink

Napoleon / Moscow Retreat
The French retreat from Moscow Date: 1812

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon
Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse or industry house for up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Edmund Pendleton Gaines
EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES American military commander who served in the 1812 war, the Seminole war, the Mexican war, the Black Hawk war etc

Jullien / Cruikshank / 1852
LOUIS-ANTOINE JULLIEN Satire on the popularity of the French musician and the concerts which he conducted in Britain from 1840 to 1859

Soho Square, London 1812
Soho Square, with cattle

Carcel and his Lamp
BERTRAND GUILLAUME CARCEL, French clockmaker, in 1800 demonstrates his oil lamp which incorporates wheels and pistons. Its a good lamp, but he dies in poverty

Edward Lear
EDWARD LEAR Artist and nonsense poet, showing a stranger who thought that Edward Lear was merely a pseudonym, the inside of his hat with his name in the lining

Spencer Perceval / Picart
SPENCER PERCEVAL son of 2nd Earl Egmont, opposed Catholic emancipation, insisted on continuance of Napoleonic war, made banknotes legal tender, assassinated

FRENCH GRENADIER 1812
A GRENADIER A CHEVAL of the Garde Imperiale, in campaign uniform Date: 1812

Browning / Vanity Fair
ROBERT BROWNING writer Date: 1812 - 1889

Dickens Weger Eng
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens in 1868. Date: 1812 - 1870

A most stupendous basking shark caught within one league of
Advertising flyer for the public exhibition in London of a basking shark caught in Brighton

Athena / Minerva Bust
A colossal head of Minerva, an example of very early Greek sculpture. The goddess is shown in a heavily restored form with later additions of a helmet crest and owl motifs

Home of Charles Dickens in Devonshire Terrace, London
The home of Charles Dickens, English novelist, at 1 Devonshire Terrace, London

Awn Pugin / Herbert
AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE PUGIN English architect and designer who championed the gothic style

Salamanca 1812 (Kelly)
At SALAMANCA Wellington scores a great victory, destroying a third of the French army in 45 minutes : British losses were only one-third of the French

Wroxeter (Vriconium)
A surviving section of the Roman wall of Wroxeter, the largest Roman city to survive completely without any modern development. Only the Roman Baths are on public display

Dickens Left Profile
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens in thoughtful mood

Dickens Gurney Photo
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens at his desk in 1867

French Enter Moscow
Napoleon enters Moscow - but he will soon have to retreat

Henry Martyn
HENRY MARTYN English missionary and orientalist; translated the New Testament into Hindustani and Psalms into Persian

London / Hyde Park
Dr Syntax in Hyde Park

BADAJOZ 1813
Badajoz, supposed impregnable, surrenders to Wellington after a sustained siege

The triumphal entry of the Duke of Wellington into Madrid in 1812. Engraving based on the painting by W.Hilton from 1825. Engraving

Luddites smash weaving machinery in a Nottingham textile factory. The Luddites were a movement of radical group of English textile workers

The Russian Mountains, Les Montagnes Russes, Paris, 1812
Fashionable couple at the Russian Mountains rollercoaster, Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville, built in 1812. (The first switchback, Year VII, 1799). Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

JAN WILLEM DE WINTER Dutch Admiral Hands over his sword after his defeat at the hands of the British off Camperdown, 11 October 1797 Date: 1761 - 1812

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