1816 Collection

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

Medusa Raft - 1
When French ship wrecks on the African coast, all take to boats, towing a raft; but the boats abandon the raft with 157 on it, who suffer terribly and fight, only 15 surviving. Date: July 1816

Charlotte Bronte / Author
CHARLOTTE BRONTE British author

Jc Ryle / Anon Photo 1888
JOHN CHARLES RYLE bishop of Liverpool Date: 1816 - 1900

View of the River Wye and Old Wye Bridge at Chepstow
View of the River Wye (at low tide) at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. The scene is dominated by the Old Wye Bridge, constructed of cast iron during the Regency period in 1816

LUDDITES
THE LUDDITES Jeremiah Brandreth, known as the Nottingham Captain, planning a rebellion, meets followers at the White Horse Inn, Pentrich, Derbyshire

Large classroom, Harrow School
A large classroom at Harrow School with several classes held at once

Anne, Lady Byron (Anon)
ANNA ISABELLA MILBANKE Lady Byron (1815 to 1816)

Sir Francis Ronalds
Portrait of English inventor, Sir Francis Ronalds (1788-1873), inventor of the electric telegraph in 1816. He fitted his garden in Hammersmith with an electric telegraph but was refused when he

Ernst Werner Von Siemens
ERNST WERNER VON SIEMENS German engineer

Cologny / Villa Diodati 6 /
Cologny, near Geneva: the Villa Diodati which Byron rented in the summer of 1816; he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold here

Richard Trevithick
RICHARD TREVITHICK Railway engineer, in 1816

Plan and elevation of Stonehenge, Wiltshire.. Ancient stone circle at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, with original plan and elevation, and ruins as of 1816. Copperplate engraving by W

Lancaster County Asylum, Quernmore Road, Lancaster
The Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum was established at Quernmore Road, Lancaster Moor in 1816. It later became Lancaster County Mental Hospital and after 1948 was renamed Lancaster Moor Hospital

Dorothy Jordan / Romney
DOROTHY JORDAN English actress as Peggy in The Country Girl - she later became mistress to the Duke of Clarence (later William IV)

Talking on St Helena
Governor Hudson Lowe allows the exiled Napoleon to talk with a British admiral - but insist on being present

Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, inventor of the stethoscope in 1816 at the Hopital Necker in Paris, where he was working at the time. Seen here using a stethoscope on a patient

Warthog Phacochoerus africanus and South American
Warthog, Phacochoerus africanus, and South American tapir, Tapirus terrestris (vulnerable).. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals

George Hardinge
GEORGE HARDINGE writer and judge, MP for Old Sarum, most notorious of the rotten boroughs. Date: 1743 - 1816

FORTUNY, Francisco (19th century). The Congress of Tucuman from 1816. Constituent assembly that declared the Independence

Richard Watson - 1
RICHARD WATSON churchman, bishop of Llandaff Date: 1737 - 1816

Edme Pajot, Caricature
EDME PAJOT French medical

Augustus Leopold Egg
AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG English painter and friend of Dickens

Scottish Soldier 1816
Sergeant William Duff of the Black Watch

Jane Lewson (116)
JANE LEWSON a London widow as renowned for her eccentricities as her age, such as a belief that washing in water is unhealthy : she used pigs lard instead

Rossini Balestrieri
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI composing his opera Il Barbieri di Seviglia, first performed on 20 February 1816

DRESSMAKERs BILL C1816
Maids dress: melon sleeves, deep v corsage, chemisette & ruff, apron & turban. Lady: white pelisse with scallop edging & ribbon trim, dress with ruff & decorative hem

Charlotte Bronte / Brock
Charlotte Bronte Writer

City View of Ancient Sparta Greece 1816 Date: 1816

SPINNING STREET DOG
While its master plays the organ, a dog works a spinning wheel, to the admiration of passers-by in the streets of Paris Date: circa 1816

French women visting the Cossack bivouac in Paris, 1814
Woman in fur-lined coat with fur muff visting the Tatar and Kalmyk Cossack bivouas in Paris after the fall of Napoleon. Cossack encampment on the Champs Elysees, 1814. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Wivenhoe Park, Essex by John Constable (1776-1837) Date: 1816

Knight with the naval decoration of the Cruz de Distincion de la Diadema Real de Marina (Cross of Distinction of the Royal Naval Diadem)

Shadow Puppet Show, The Rabbit on the Wall, by Sir David Wilkie Date: circa 1816

Tenantry Column, Alnwick, Northumberland - a monument erected in 1816 by the tenants of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland in thanks for his reduction of their rents during the post-Napoleonic

LAWYERS ARRESTED
After the trial of general Travot, even his advocats are arrested : but he escapes the death penalty, sentenced to 20 years in prison, where he dies insane. Date: 1816

BONNAIRE DEGRADED
One of Napoleon's officers, Jean-Gerard Bonnaire is stripped of his Legion d'honneur in place Vendome, Paris, and condemned to prison where he dies two months later Date: 8 June 1816

FRENCH OFFICERS IN TEXAS
After the defeat of Napoleon, general Lallemand, condemned to death at the restoration, goes with other officers to Texas where he founds a colony of exiles run on spartan lines Date: 1816

VISITING FRENCH MORGUE
An assortment of visitors to a French morgue: a soldier in uniform and a mother and her son. A caretaker leans against the barrier smoking, unaffected by the corpses. Date: 1816

Capitaine Andriel fires his gun in salute as he passes the Palais des Tuileries, Paris, after sailing from London in his paddle steamer. Date: 29 March 1816

First Master's House at Harrow School. Date: 1816

The Vale of Health
View of the Vale of Health, Hampstead, London. Those who wished to attract visitors or new residents invented and promoted the Vale of Health name, which was first recorded in 1801

Bethlem psychiatric hospital or Bedlam in 1816
Bethlem Royal Hospital or Bedlam Hospital in St. Georges Fields, Southwark, 1816. Now the Imperial War Museum. Designed by surveyor James Lewis in the neoclassical style with portico

John Rennies design for Waterloo Bridge, 1816
John Rennies design for Waterloo Bridge, with elevation and plans for the superstructure and foundations. Copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1816

Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold with Dame Bewley
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of Belgium finding Dame Bewley at her cottage door reading her old Bible. circa 1816

Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816. 1816

Slaves working in a Sugar Mill in the West Indies. Date: 1816

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Tufted capuchin, Sapajus apella, and squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

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