1840 Collection (page 36)

Newcastle Bookshop
A grand Victorian bookshop - W & T Fordyces Publishing Establishment, Newcastle upon Tyne

Zola / Chartran / Vf 1880
EMILE ZOLA French novelist

Spanish Gipsy Musicians
Two Spanish gipsy girls play guitar and tambourine

Levitation / Vintras
The alleged levitation of EUGENE VINTRAS, noted French occultist

Wilfred & Anne Blunt
WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT English poet and traveller LADY ANNE BLUNT his wife (1858) who travelled with him on many expeditions in search of horses for their stud farm

Johann Blumenbach
JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH German zoologist and anthropologist and professor of medicine

Dead Sea & Jericho C1840
View of the Dead Sea, Jericho and the mouth of the River Jordan

Bell Ringer
The bell-ringer

The Poacher Detected
THE POACHER DETECTED. He will probably be hanged, but if the magistrate is merciful he may simply be transported to Australia for the rest of his life

French Officer, C1840
An officer of the French Soldiers of the Guard (2nd Empire)

Hippolyte Bernheim
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

Medical / Primitive
An itinerant Chinese doctor at Tien-Sing, impressing the audience by handling snakes

Opium Wars / Ting-Hai
British take Ting-hai

England / London / Strand
View of the Strand looking eastward, with Somerset House on the right; the church facing us is St Mary-le-Strand

Death / Funerals / Napoleon
The funeral cortege of Napoleon I passing through the place de la Concorde, 15 December 1840

C19 Harp Player
Lady (Miss Coape) plays merrily on her harp

Sir Benjamin Baker
SIR BENJAMIN BAKER English civil engineer Planned London underground railways, designed Forth Bridge, consulted Aswan Dam

Folklore / Vampires
BURIAL AT A CROSSROADS with sinister figure to the left

Zola / Paris Theatre 1878
EMILE ZOLA French writer

Wedding Dress
Bridal dress

Wedding Dress 1840
A young bride about to sign the register wears a dress with 3 lace edged flounces, pointed waist, bell shaped upper sleeves worn over a tightfitting under sleeve

Tea Cultivation
China : second stage of drying, in heated shallow pans

COPE / HARPERS / 1897
EDWARD DRINKER COPE American naturalist

Queen Victoria in her Osborne House sitting room
Queen Victoria in her sitting room at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight

Emperor Tao-Kuang reviewing forces, Peking
Emperor Tao-Kuang reviews his armed forces in Peking

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