1826 Collection (page 7)

Menai Suspension Bridge
Thomas Telfords graceful suspension bridge over the Menai Straits, looking towards the Carnarvonshire mountains, Wales. Date: built 1819 - 1826

Ivar Hallstrom
IVAR HALLSTROM Swedish pianist and composer Date: 1826 - 1901

L-G Suchet / Hopwood
LOUIS-GABRIEL SUCHET DUKE of ALBUFERA French military Date: 1770 - 1826

Buckland & Fish
FRANK BUCKLAND naturalist, depicted at home with a big fish and various other fauna Date: 1826 - 1880

F Siemens / Cassell 1893
FRIEDRICH SIEMENS German-English engineer Date: 1826 - 1904

American Officers Dress
JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN military commander in the U.S. Army Date: 1826 - 1886

3 Gothick Chairs
Three chairs in the fashionable Gothic style favoured by the Romantics - suitable furniture for Jane Austens Northanger Abbey Date: 1826

15th Earl of Derby / Pound
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of DERBY statesman Date: 1826 - 1893

Samuel Bowles, Journal
SAMUEL BOWLES American editor whose vigorous promotion made the Republican a leading journal in its day. Date: 1826 - 1878

Thomas Alexander Browne
THOMAS ALEXANDER BROWNE Australian novelist (nom-de- plume ROLF BOLDREWOOD) Author of Robbery under arms, The squatters dream and many more. Date: 1826 - 1915

F a Boissy D anglas - 3
FRANCOIS-ANTOINE, comte de BOISSY D ANGLAS French statesman in later life, after surviving the Revolution. with his autograph Date: 1756 - 1826

F a Boissy D anglas - 2
FRANCOIS-ANTOINE, comte de BOISSY D ANGLAS As a young man at the time of the Revolution, when he is one of those who will overthrow Robespierre. Date: 1756 - 1826

Walter Bagehot / Graphic
WALTER BAGEHOT the English political economist and journalist, editor of The Economist and author of The British Constitution (1867) Date: 1826 - 1877

Engine for Messrs Peels, Ainsworth and Co
Plan of an engine for Messrs Peels, Ainsworth and Company, 5 April 1787 Date: 1826

Newcomens engine, unidentified drawing Date: 1826

Newcomens engine, drawing no 4 Date: 1826

Victorian man standing by a mirror
A Victorian man standing by a mirror. It is probably Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (1826-1881), around the time of his wedding to Emily Frances Barron in 1852

Peerless Pool, London
A natural pond off the City Road, at one time a fish pond, and a favourite bathing place

Dionys Ordinaire / Demare
Dionys Ordinaire (1826-1892) French author

Weber, Carl Maria von 1786 - 1826
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber. German composer and one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school

Ernest Hamel / Gill
Ernest Hamel (1826-1898) lawyer, writer and historian relating especially to the French Revolution and the Empire - is the author of a monumental biography of Robespierre

London Bermondsey
Mill Pond Bridge

John Brown (1826-1883)
Engraved portrait of John Brown (1826-1883), Queen Victorias personal attendant at Balmoral for 34 years, pictured in his Highland garb

Eugenie Tea Party
The empress has a few friends in for tea

Robin Redbreast / Bewick
The Rrobin-redbreast, or Ruddock Motacilla rubecula

Turks Take Missolonghi
After several tries, the Turks under Ibrahim Pasha take Missolonghi (now Mesalongion) from the Greeks, massacring many - 3000 Greek heads are displayed on the walls

Eugenie at Lyon
In the summer of 1869, she pays a kindly visit to an old folks home in Lyon

Tartar Woman & Child
Tartar mother and child

Snake Handlers - China
Chinese snake handlers

Chinese Ferryman
A Chinese ferryman aboard his vessel, with a large mounted gong and hammer to alert passengers to his imminent departure or perhaps to other boats to warn of his passage

Chinese Percussion
A variety of Chinese percussive instruments, including a hanging rack of square bells, a tensioned drum and a percussion instrument in the shape of a tiger

Chinese Infantryman
A Chinese Fantassin (foot soldier) called the Tiger of War with his brightly coloured tiger-stripe costume and fierce shield motif

Chinese Shrine
A little rustic pagoda outside a village

Horse-Drawn Tram Wagon
An old wooden horse-drawn tram wagon, one of many built in 1826 and used on the Stratford to Moreton-in-the-Marsh Railway, which was in use until 1859, carrying coal etc

Grammes dynamo-electrical machine
Engraving by W. Bazzett Murray showing Grammes direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826-1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869

Henry Wylie Norman
sir HENRY WYLIE NORMAN military and colonial administrator, photo 1894

Nigerian Women
Two Shouaa ladies of the Bornu district of Nigeria, one with an infant on her back : both are wearing fashionably striped garments looking surprisingly modern

Empress Eugenie
EUGENIA MARIA DE MONTIJO Wife of the French Emperor, Napoleon III and mother of the Prince Imperial. Renowned beauty and arbiter of taste. Lived to a ripe old age

Rt. Hon. Henry Matthews
HENRY MATTHEWS Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff, politician and lawyer. Home Secretary in Lord Salisburys first government

Gramme Dynamo / 1870
A dynamo (electricity generator) developed by Belgian engineer Zenobe Gramme (1826-1901) in 1870

St. Leger at Doncaster
The Great St Leger race at Doncaster ( & Characters on the turf )

Distilling, China
A Chinese distillery

Mattocks as Catherine
ISABELLA MATTOCKS actress as Catherine in Shakespeares Henry V wearing a splendid 18th century dress

Chinese Stop for Food
Chinese porters stop for their mid-day meal

Mattocks as Elvira
ISABELLA MATTOCKS actress as Elvira in John Drydens The Spanish Friar

Chinese Children Eat
Chinese children at their mid-day meal

Eating in China
Chinese workmen (hauliers on canal) stop for their mid-day meal

Menai Bridges / Hawkins
The Britannia Tubular Bridge (foreground) designed by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1850 and the Menai Suspension Bridge designed by Thomas Telford, opened in 1826

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