1821 Gallery
Available as Prints and Gift Items
Choose from 511 pictures in our 1821 collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. All professionally made for Quick Shipping.
Featured Print
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Photograph of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the English explorer, linguist and diplomat. A master of up to 30 languages, Burton made a pilgrimage to Mecca disguised as a Pathan in 1853 and later explored Africa, settting out with John Hanning Speke, to search for the source of the Nile River. In later life he served as a British diplomat in Brazil, Syria and Italy
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Featured Print
Embassy at Tehran
Reception of the Embassy, near Tehran : following preliminary negotiations depicted here, a British mission (and subsequently an embassy) was set up in Tehran
© Mary Evans Picture Library/GROSVENOR PRINTS
1821, British, Depicted, Embassy, Events, Historical, History, Iran, Mission, Negotiations, Preliminary, Set, Subsequently, Tehran
Featured Print
Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus
Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus. . Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books
© Florilegius / Mary Evans
1821, Birds, British, Bubo, Copperplate, Engraving, George, Graves, Handcolored, Historical, History, Ornithology, Owl, Scandiacus, Snowy
