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Blenkinsop Locomotive, 1812BLENKINSOPs LOCOMOTIVE. Also known as the Salamanca, as it was built in the same year as Wellingtons victory at the Battle of Salamanca. Date: 1812
Birmingham workhouse penny, 1812
Dr Syntax Title PageThe Tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the Picturesque, a Poem. Date: c.1812-1821
Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - sectionA sectional view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved
Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - elevationThe elevation view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved
Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - ground plan
Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - bed designsBed designs in Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved
Edwin John JamesEDWIN JOHN JAMES English lawyer, a volunteer with Garibaldis forces in Italy. Date: 1812 - 1882
Richard March HoeGeneral RICHARD MARCH HOE American inventor of printing machinery, including the rotary or lightning press 1847, the web press and the web-perfecting press. Date: 1812 - 1886
Emmanuel AragoEMMANUEL ARAGO French statesman and diplomat Date: 1812 - 1896
Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS Writer of books such as The women of England designed to improve the position of women in society. An important figure in feminist history. Date: 1812 - 1872
French Cuirassier 1812A cuirassier of the time of Napoleons invasion of Russia Date: 1812
Russian Cavalry OfficerOFFICIER DE L ETAT-MAJOR RUSSE (Russian staff officer) Date: circa 1812
BOX COAT 1812Man in striped breeches, black hessian boots, black double- breasted jacket & box coat with 5 capes. The other man wears a cut-away coat, striped waistcoat & silk stockings. Date: 1812
Military Review (Syntax)A military review. Date: 1812
Battle of Smolensk between Napoleon and Bagration; the Russians ultimately evacuate the town after firing it Date: 17 August 1812
British Landing RepulsedA British attempt to land troops on American soil is repulsed by American shore defences Date: 1812
Dickens Taylor EngCHARLES DICKENS Dickens giving a public reading. Date: 1812 - 1870
Carlton House / StaircaseCarlton House, London: the staircase Date: 1812
The Girl DrummersAn American Army of Two Patriotic Girl musicians. Date: 1812
MARGATE / 1812Margate, Kent: a rather cold-looking beach, with a few bathing huts Date: 1812
1, Chalk RoadNo.1, Chalk Road, Chalk, Kent. Over the doorway is a bust by Percy Fitzgerald :" Dickens spent his honeymoon in this house, 1836". etc. Date: 1812 - 1870
Setting out on JourneyA tourist sets out to visit the country on horseback. Dr Syntax proposes to visit the Lake District, then as now a favourite tourist destination. Date: 1812
Dickens by Gillies 1844CHARLES DICKENS Dickens as a young man, in 1844. Date: 1812 - 1870
CONSTITUTION VICTORYThe American warship Constitution - known as Old Ironsides - dismasts the British Guerriere, damaging her so severely that she is not worth towing back to port. Date: 19 August 1812
KRUPP PTGALFRED KRUPP German industrialist Date: 1812 - 1887
Ondine taken from the ship, leaving Palemon with BertaThe angry Tirrenio creates a storm and carries Ondine from the ship, leaving Palemon with Berta. Illustration to a fairytale by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, first published 1812
Palemon kisses Ondine and dies in her armsPalemon kisses Ondine, despite knowing that this will be fatal, and dies in her arms. Illustration to a fairytale by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, first published 1812
Sergeant of Fusiliers - 54th RegimentNapoleonic War Line Infantry (French) - Sergeant of Fusiliers of the 54th Regiment
Alphonse Peyrat / GillAlphonse Peyrat (1812-1890) French journalist and essayist
Officer - 95th Rifles (Peninsular War)
Sergeant - 1st Foot - Royal Scots Regiment - Light Infantry Battalion. The horn badge on his headdress indicates light infantry
Robert Browning, 1887Engraved portrait of Robert Browning (1812-1889), the English poet and playwright, pictured in 1887
William Ballantine (1812-1887)Photograph portrait of William Ballantine (1812-1887), Serjeant-at-Law, pictured c.1880. He was known professionally as Serjeant Ballantine
Satirical cartoon about the Russian ArmyAn exact representation of the various characters, Uniforms, and Attendants, also of the singular species of Horses, Composing the Russian Army under General Kutosoff
Samuel Smiles SambourneSAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859, helping himself to a large glass of champagne
Browning / WaddyROBERT BROWNING writer, depicted as the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Browning LehmannROBERT BROWNING the English poet in Rome in 1859
Catherine Gladstone, (1812-1900)Photographic portrait of Catherine Gladstone (nee Glynne), the wife of William Ewart Gladstone, the English Liberal statesman
Veterans of the War of 1812; New York, 1865Illustration showing two veterans of the American War of Independence (of 1812), greeting each other in the streets of New York, 1865
Jan Ladislav DussekJAN LADISLAV DUSSEK Bohemian pianist and composer
Crossing the BeresinaThe French retreat : the passage of the Beresina river, following which some 36 000 bodies were found in the river by the Russians
Classical Myth / AthenaA colossal head of Minerva, the Roman Goddess of Wisdom. She is often represneted as grave, wearing a helmet and with drapery over a coat of mail
Alfred Krupp / OvalALFRED KRUPP German industrialist in old age
Myth / Hercules BustA colossal head of Hercules, and a very fine example of Greek sculpture. This was probably a copy of a famous statue by Glycon found in the Baths of Caracalla
Ney & Retreating FrenchMarshal Ney endeavours to keep up the morale of his men
Loutherbourg, ArtistPHILIP JAMES DE LOUTHERBOURG French artist, known for his paintings of battles and other action-packed scenes, of which we have several in our files
Ras Al Khyma AttackedBritish attack on the pirate town of Ras-al-Khyma, on the Straits of Hormuz. (It will be attacked again in 1812 and subsequently.)
