1813 Collection

WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883). Parsifal. Poster by Regg advertising the performances at the Zurich Opera (1913). Painting;

Porter Rockwell / Cdv
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL American frontiersman, Utah pioneer and reputed Mormon Destroying Angel, photographed in June 1866

Battle of the Pyrenees, 1813. Watercolour by Richard Simkin. The 95th Rifles (now Rifle Brigade) Pyrenees, 1813. Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Date: 1813

Napoleonic / Leipzig Batt
NAPOLEONIC WARS Battle of Leipzig The charge of the Brandenburg Hussars Regiment overwhelms the French

Wagner / Balestrieri
RICHARD WAGNER Composing his opera cycle, the Ring of the Nibelungen

Pride and Prejudice
Mr Darcy finds Elizabeth Bennet tolerable

Tecumseh, Native American chief of the Shawnee tribe
Tecumseh (Tecumtha, Tekamthi, 1768-1813), Native American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe. He became the chief spokesman for the Indians of the Ohio Valley

Leipzig Battle Charge
NAPOLEONIC WARS Battle of Leipzig The charge of the Brandenburg Hussars Regiment overwhelms the French Date: 16 October 1813

Pride and Prejudice
I have not an instant to lose says Elizabeth Bennet to Mr Darcy

Pride and Prejudice
Mr Darcy enters a room in which Elizabeth Bennet is seated at her writing desk

Ascent of Mr Sadler, Nottingham
The Ascent of Mr Sadler the celebrated British Aeronaut at Nottingham. 1 November 1813

Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet refuses Mr Darcy

Wagner / Gill / Ring Cycle
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in a satirical comment on his four-part opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen

WAGNER
RICHARD WAGNER German musician, at age 70, with his wife Cosima

Soren Kierkegaard
SOREN aBYE KIERKEGaRD Danish philosopher

Verdi Last Photo
GIUSEPPE VERDI the Italian opera composer: the last photograph taken of him

Battle of Leipzig
BATTLE OF LEIPZIG - a delightful popular print of the decisive battle which ended Napoleons attempt to subdue Germany and forced him to retire across the Rhine

Wagner / Schalk / Leipzig
RICHARD WAGNER German composer and his son, Siegfried, slay the Critic Dragon and gain the treasure it was guarding, in a parody of the Nibelungen story

Wagner / German Mag
RICHARD WAGNER German composer

Male Riding Dress 1813
Double-breasted cut-away coat worn open to reveal a white waistcoat with stand collar, shirt frill & white stock, leather breeches with falls, top boots, spurs & top hat

Giuseppe Verdi / Boldini
GIUSEPPE VERDI Italian composer

Yorkshire Farmhouse Int
A Yorkshire farmers wife makes oatcakes in her kitchen

Wilhelm Richard Wagner
WILHELM RICHARD WAGNER German composer

Giuseppe Verdi Ackermann
GIUSEPPE VERDI Italian opera composer

Battle of Salamanca - Peninsular War
Battle of Salamanca. One of four coloured engravings, nd. Associated with Peninsular War (1808-1813)

Map of St Marylebone, London
Map of St Marylebone, from a plan of London published by Richard Phillips. Date: 1813

BESSIERES, Jean-Baptiste (1768-1813). Marshal of the French Empire. Duke of Istria. He fought with Napoleon in the campaigns of Egypt, Spain and Russia

Wordsworth / Old Rectory
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH English poets home from 1811 to 1813, The Old Rectory, which was demolished in the 1890s Date: 1770 - 1850

Dutch hookbill duck, Anas boschas var curvirostra
Dutch hookbill duck, Anas boschas var. curvirostra.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Battle of Goldberg 1813
Prinz Carl von Mecklenburg at the battle of GOLDBERG

Churches / Brigstock / 1813
Brigstock Church, Northamptonshire. Date: 1813

Sir Isaac Pitman
SIR ISaC PITMAN Inventor of a system of shorthand Date: 1813 - 1897

Claude Bernard
CLAUDE BERNARD French physiologist who made important medical discoveries

Johanna Rosina Wagner (1774 - 1848), mother of the composer (1813) ;after Wagner
Johanna Rosina Wagner (1774 - 1848), mother of the composer (1813); after Wagners father died, she married Ludwig Geyer, who thus became the composers stepfather. 1813

Puffing Billy engine
Puffing Billy, steam engine invented by William Headley in 1813. Headley solved the problem of slippage on the iron tracks by applying power through two sets of driving wheels

Battle of Gross-Gorschen
Battle of Gross-Goerschen - the German First Regiment of Guards in action against the French

Benjamin Rush / Sully
BENJAMIN RUSH American medical practitioner, signatory to the Declaration of Independence

Scarborough Castle 1813
Scarborough, Yorkshire: a ladys parasol is blown away by the wind after a visit to the ruined castle

Battle Hanau Oct 1813
NAPOLEONIC WAR Battle of Hanau - the Bavarian cavalry charge the French Garde Imperiale

Wagner / Materna / Kikeriki
RICHARD WAGNER German composer, with the celebrated opera singer Mme Materna, taking part in a Wagnerian performance on a hot day in Paris in 1890

Wagner / Gill / L eclipse
RICHARD WAGNER A satire implying Wagners music may perforate ones eardrum!

William Hedleys engine, 1813. Listed in RE Bleasdales Locomotive Engines catalogue, entry 1259. Long held at Crag Head, Newcastle and photographed there in 1881

Indian Puppet Show for European Children
Kaut-pootlies, or Puppets exhibited by Native Jugglers, for the amusement of European children. (Plate 18 of 20). Date: 1813

Verdi Falstaff Paris
GIUSEPPE VERDI the Italian opera composer rehearsing Falstaff at Paris in 1894 Date: 1813-1901

Aa Parmentier / P Journal
ANTOINE-AUGUSTIN PARMENTIER Centenary celebration of the man who introduced the potato to France

Barts Hospital Gateway
The principal entrance Date: 1813

Spencer House
facing Green Park Date: 1813

Te Deum of Victory
On the battlefield near Toplitz, a grand Te Deum is sung, thanking God for victory at Leipzig (16- 19 October) effectively driving the French from Germany

Richard Wagner / Dawson
RICHARD WAGNER German composer

George Gilfillan / Cdv
GEORGE GILFILLAN Scottish writer

Cavendish Square 1813
Cavendish Square: north side

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 3 / 1858
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in 1858, at the Wesendonck villa, Zurich

Wagner / Faustin
RICHARD WAGNER German opera composer and conductor extraordinaire, astonishing everybody with his Music of the Future

Andoche Junot
ANDOCHE JUNOT duc d Abrantes French marshal

Livingstone / Annan
DAVID LIVINGSTONE Missionary and explorer

Prussian Iron Cross
Two examples of the Prussian decoration of the Iron Cross. One from 1813 and on from 1870

Retreat after Leipzig
After their defeat at Leipzig, the French are compelled to retreat to the west

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

Giuseppe Verdi / Photo
GIUSEPPE VERDI Italian composer

Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape (1813â??1895). Royal Prussian infantry Colonel-General with the special rank of Generalfeldmarschall. Portrait. Engraving. Detail

Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria (1813-1862). Grand
Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria (1813-1862). Daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine by her marriage to Grand Duke Ludwig III (1806-1877). Drawing by C

Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria (1813-1862). Grand
Mathilde Karoline of Bavaria (1813-1862). Daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine by her marriage to Grand Duke Ludwig III (1806-1877). Drawing by C

Abbas I of Egypt (1812-1854). Wali of Egypt under
Abbas I of Egypt (1812-1854), also know as Abbas Pasha. Wali of Egypt under the Ottomans from 1848 to 1854. Portrait. Lithography by Martinez. Reyes Contemporaneos (Contemporary Kings). Tomo II

Species of bats and flying fox
Endangered large flying fox, Pteropus vampyrus 1, long-eared bat, Plecotus auritus 2, Asian ghost bat, Megaderma spasma 3, greater bulldog bat, Noctilio leporinus 4 and faux vampire

Species of weevils
Species of weevil: Tournotaris bimaculata 1, South American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum 2, pecan gall curculio, Conotrachelus elegans 3, Cholus annulatus 4, Brazilian diamond beetle

Species of pomfret, tube-eye, hairtail, swordfish, etc
Pomfret, Pampus cinereus 1, black pomfret, Parastromateus niger 2, tube-eye or thread-tail, Stylephorus chordatus 3, largehead hairtail, Trichiurus lepturus 4, diaphanous hatchetfish

Species of catfish, weatherfish and four-eyes
Bloch's catfish, Pimelodus blochii 1, Raphael catfish, Platydoras costatus 2, suckermouth catfish, Hypostomus plecostomus 3, weatherfish, Misgurnus fossilis 4, largescale four-eyes

Species of cod, saithe, blenny and humphead fish
Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua 1, saithe, Pollachius virens 2, poor cod, Trisopterus minutus 3, oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau 4, butterfly blenny, Blennius ocellaris 5, and Indian humphead

Salamander, chamaeleon and other lizards
Fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra 1, tinos green lizard, Lacerta citrovittata 2, chamaeleon catching flies with its tongue, Chamaeleo chamaeleon 3, sand lizard

Bengal tiger and African leopards
Critically endangered Bengal tiger, Panthera tigris 1, and vulnerable African leopard, Panthera pardus 2, 3. Copperplate engraving by J

Sir Christopher Myngs, English naval officer and privateer
Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, English naval officer and privateer, 1625-1666.. Sir Christopher Minns

Antique sofa and table, 1813.. Made of satin, coromandel, rosewood, ebony or mahogany, decorated with bronze, ormolu or carvings in contrasting woods. Table with folding leaves

Fashionable woman outside a hat shop, Paris, 1813
Fashionable woman window-shopping for bonnets outside a milliners, Paris, 1813. She wears a bonnet, high-waisted dress with full sleeves, holding a parasol and drawstring bag or ridicule

William Blake, English visionary poet and artist
Portrait of William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827. Blake seated on a bench in coat, waistcoat, cravat, holding a graver

Caerois chorinaeus, Cape lappet moth and obrina olivewing
Caerois chorinaeus 1, Cape lappet moth, Eutricha capensis 2, and obrina olivewing, Nessaea obrinus, dorsal 3, ventral 4. Papilio arcesilaus, Phalaena capensis, Papilio ancaea

Whitebeam and wild service trees
Whitebeam tree, Aria edulis 1 and wild service tree, chequers, and checker tree, Sorbus torminalis 2. Branch with blossom, flower, leaf, fruit and seed

Aborigine people of Tasmania, 1807. Paraberi in animal-skin cloak 3 and Ouriaga with scarification to shoulder, hair dyed red 4. The Tasmanian people were exterminated by the British colonists

Eora (Yura) men Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erran-gou-la-ga
Eora (Yura) men Cour-rou-bari-gal 1 and Y-erran-gou-la-ga 2. Aborigines of New South Wales, both with scarification and body painting. The tribes were decimated by smallpox from the colonists

The London Monument, 1800s
The London Monument, flame-topped 61m-tall Doric column erected in 1677 by architect Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London of 1666. Le Monument de Londres

Exotic moths and butterflies
Luna moth or American moon moth, Actias luna 1, Phyllodes conspicillator moth 2, Asian comma butterfly, Polygonia c-aureum 3, and blue pansy or eyed pansy, Junonia orithya 4

Snowy mespilus and snow pear
Snowy mespilus, Amelanchier ovalis 1, and yellow pear or snow pear, Pyrus nivalis 2. Blossom A and fruit B. The botanicals were drawn by Henriette and Conrad Westermayr, F. Götz and C. Ermer

View of Paris seen from Montmartre, 1800s
View of Paris, France, seen from Montmartre. Les Tuileries 1, Le Louvre museum 2, le Dome des Invalides 3, the Pantheon 4, and Notre-Dame Cathedral 5

View of Paris, France, seen from the suburb of St. Cloud, 1800s
View of Paris, France, seen from the suburb of St. Cloud. Notre Dame cathedral 1, the Pantheon 2, Saint-Paul Saint Louis church 3, and Montmartre hill with the Basilica of the Sacre Coeur 4

Chelsea Hospital viewed from the River Thames, London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a home for veterans of the British Army founded in 1692. L'Hopital de Chelsea

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