1813 Collection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soren Kierkegaard
SOREN aBYE KIERKEGaRD Danish philosopher

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

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

Giuseppe Verdi Ackermann
GIUSEPPE VERDI Italian opera composer

Wilhelm Richard Wagner
WILHELM RICHARD WAGNER German composer

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

Wagner / German Mag
RICHARD WAGNER German composer

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

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

Churches / Brigstock / 1813
Brigstock Church, Northamptonshire. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barts Hospital Gateway
The principal entrance Date: 1813

Spencer House
facing Green Park Date: 1813

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

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

Claude Bernard
CLAUDE BERNARD French physiologist who made important medical discoveries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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