1817 Collection (page 7)

Dancing Lesson at Home
A well-to-do family employ a dancing-master to teach them the quadrille - proficiency in dancing was a necessary accomplishment for anyone with social pretensions

Watchmen and Wild Boys
Three young London men-about- town get into trouble with the law, and defend themselves against two watchmen (seven years later they will be replaced by peelers )

Music / Instruments / Harp
A harpist entertains an evening party

Sir Henry George Elliot Diplomat

Anne-Louise De Stael
ANNE-LOUISE DE STAEL, French writer and talker - one of the most singular-looking foreign monsters that I ever beheld

Theroigne De Mericourt
A J THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT French revolutionary heroine

Tadeus Kosciuszko
TADEUS ANDRZEI BONAWENTURA Polish patriot who joined the American forces during the War of Independence

Newcastle / Cavendish / 1817
WILLIAM CAVENDISH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE Cavalier & author of works on horsemanship

James Monroe / Scrap
JAMES MONROE 5th American President 1817-25

Massena (Millet)
ANDRE MASSENA French military commander

Mege-Mouries / Cig Card
HIPPOLYTE MEGE-MOURIES French inventor of margarine

PAUL FEVAL
Paul-Henri-Corentin FEVAL French writer

C M G Jourdain
Charles-Marie-Gabriel JOURDAIN BRECHILLET French philosopher

C-E Brown-Sequard / 1894
CHARLES-EDOUARD BROWN-SEQUARD French physiologist

SPARRING
Two pugilists spar as a gathering of men enjoy the action

Abraham Gott. Werner
Abraham Gottlieb WERNER German geologist and mineralogist

John Leech / Caldesi Cdv
JOHN LEECH Artist and cartoonist

John Delane / Times / Cdv
JOHN THADEUS DELANE Editor of The Times

Fanny Cerrito / Alma 1842
FANNY CERRITO Italian ballet dancer, seen here in Alma

Jan Kilinski
JAN KILINSKI Polish revolutionary and patriot

Madame De Stael
ANNE-LOUISE DE STAEL French salon hostess, writer and patron of the arts

Insanity / Delusion / Cartoo
Delusion

Lili Schonemann
LILI (ANNE ELIZABETH) SCHONEMANN Briefly engaged to Goethe in 1775; later Baroness von Turckheim (pictured here with Baron von Turckheim)

Mme De Stael (Meyer)
ANNE-LOUISE baroness DE STAEL French writer and saloniste

Mme De Stael (Lebrun 2)
ANNE-LOUISE baroness DE STAEL French writer and saloniste

Massena / Philippoteaux
ANDRE MASSENA Duc de Rivoli, prince d Essling French general

Princess Charlotte (Hub)
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE - Princess of Wales and daughter of King George IV with Prince Leopold of Cobourg

Princess Charlotte (Fry)
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE - Princess of Wales and daughter of King George IV

Treadmill / Coldbath Field
Prisoners working at the treadmill and others exercising in the vagrants prison, Coldbath Fields. The first treadmill was installed in Brixton Prison in 1817

Charles Fr. Daubigny - 2
CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY French artist, circa 1865

Charles Fr. Daubigny - 1
Charles Francois Daubigny French Artist

Vincent Benedetti
Count VINCENT BENEDETTI French diplomat : ambassador to Torino, Italy, subsequently ambassador to Prussia

Elegancies of Quadrilles
Moulinet - a quadrille step with linked hands. Ladies & gentleman, in an elegantly furnished room, enjoy a dance, while a man in cossack trousers chats up a large bosomed lady

Quadrille Inconveniences
Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing: a short gentleman struggles on tiptoe as he tries valiantly to turn two tall women with tall hairstyles

Quadrille Accidents 2
Accidents in Quadrille Dancing Mishaps to avoid on the dance floor: a man with two left feet trips dragging the woman opposite down with him to the amusement of a rival female

Quadrille Accidents
Accidents in Quadrille Dancing Mishaps to avoid on the dance floor while doing a back-to- back or dos a dos. A lady & gentleman bump backsides to the amusement of the band

Arthur Hill Hassall
ARTHUR HILL HASSALL Naturalist, chemist, physicist

Mme De Stael
ANNE-LOUISE baroness DE STAEL French writer and saloniste

Regency Theatre 1817
Interior of the Regency theatre, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, built on the site of the Kings Concert Rooms. Tonights play is Othello

Jakob Serenius
JAKOB SERENIUS Swedish churchman and writer

Theodor Storm
THEODOR STORM German writer

Henry David Thoreau
HENRY DAVID THOREAU American writer

Robert Porrett Collier
ROBERT PORRETT COLLIER, later first baron Monkswell judge and landscape painter

Italy / Archae / Aruntii Cat
The catacombs of Aruntii

L a F Maury
LOUIS FERDINAND ALFRED MAURY French antiquarian, scholar, noted for books on dreams and folklore

Captain Bligh
WILLIAM BLIGH Naval officer; victim of the mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Adolphe Wurtz
CHARLES ADOLPHE WURTZ French scientist

Boston Sea Serpent
The sea-serpent seen at Gloucester Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, on several occasions

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