1840s Collection (page 6)

Queen Victoria Young Family 1841
Queen Victoria at the age of 22 with her two eldest children, Princess Victoria her first child and Prince Bertie her first son heir to the throne later Prince of Wales and then King Edward VII

Exterior of the publishing office of The Illustrated London News, at 198 Strand on the corner with Milford Lane London. When it was first established the weekly news magazine was publishing every

Exterior of the new Coal Exchange, London. Date: 1849

Private View at the Royal Academy 1843
A Private View of the Royal Academy annual exhibition. Date: 1843

Christmas-Eve dinner time in the East End club-house, where everyone brought their own dinner to cook themselves, over the community oven with one frying-pan

Victorian taking a walk in St James's Park, London, in the summer months. Date: August 1844

Horses racing, with thousands of spectators. Date: 1844

Exterior of the Haymarket Theatre, London. Date: 1846

Constructed by the South Western Railway Company for the conveyance of Queen Victoria and her family to their residence in the Isle of Wight. Date: 1844

Woman Working a Foot Pedalled Power Loom 1854
Factory woman seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a handloom. At the time the population of upwards of 18, 000 people

Old Floating Church for Seamen, London
Sailors Floating Church was moored near Tower Hill in London, the ship was a well attended place of worship, with religious teachings for the seafarers that docked there. Date: 1846

Macclesfield Factory Girl Preparing Warp 1845
Factory girl seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a power-loom in a large manufacturing town in the county of Chester

Charles Sherwood Stratton known by everyone as General Tom Thumb (1838 - 1883), American dwarf, who achieved great fame. Wearing court dress, appearing at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly

Victorian visitors around the Old Horse Armoury in the Tower of London. Date: circa 1840s

FASHION & FLOWER BOOK
Grey patterned robe with long tight sleeves; a matching pelerine-mantelet with the lappets tied behind to form a bustle. A crucifix on a black ribbon is also worn. circa 1840

A French barber puts his male client's hair into curling papers Date: 1840

Blackwall Extension Railway Bridge over the Commercial-Road East. The new link in the metropolitan system of railways was to bring the Eastern Counties and other lines terminating at Shoreditch

Cartoon, The Seven-league boots 1846
Cartoon, The Seven-league boots; or, Death of Giant Monopoly. A satirical comment on the repeal of the Corn Laws, depicting Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister

Japanese people in mourning dress
A group of Japanese people in mourning dress. Date: 1846

Iroquois burial in sitting posture
The Iroquois people of North America bury their dead in a sitting posture. Date: 1846

Coffee Stall 1841
Winter scene on a corner of London street a coffee stall, with people sitting on upside down baskets drinking a hot coffee. Date: 1841

On May 1st, 1843 English Academic painter and illustrator John Callcott Horsley designed the first commercially produced and printed Christmas card

Native Youth of India pleading for Christian Instruction Date: 1848

The Caricaturists Scrap Book, H Heath Date: circa 1840

British Troops entering Multan, during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-1849), 22 January 1849. Date: 1849

Battle of Ferozeshah, India, during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846), 21-22 December 1845. Date: 1845

Sir Joseph Thackwell, British Army officer, at the Battle of Sobraon, First Anglo-Sikh War, 10 February 1846. Date: 1846

British Army Crossing the Sutlej River, India, during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846), 10 February 1846 Date: 1846

Bombardment of Acre, Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839-1841), 3 November 1840 Date: 1840

Signing the Treaty of Nankin (Nanking, Nanjing), ending the First Opium War, 29 August 1842. Date: 1842

The Squadron before Amoy, First Opium War (1839-1842). Date: early 1840s

Page from the Illustrated London News, 14th June 1845, featuring Ascot prizes the Royal Hunt Cup, the Emperors Cup, and the Queens Vase

Ascot prize - The Emperors Cup
Amongst the Ascot prizes for 1845 is the Emperors Cup, a gift of the Emperor of Russia on his 1844 visit to Queen Victoria

Reopening of Sadlers Wells Theatre, Sermon
Reopening of Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, 26 July 1845, Sermon by Rev William Owen of Chadwell Street Chapel Date: 1845

Taking the veil at the church of the convent of the most Holy Trinity at Bermondsey, which opened for the reception of the sisterhood of the Order of our blessed Lady of Mercy in November 1839

The Epping Hunt. Date: 1843

Two Peasant Girls ? Ireland
Two Peasant Girls - Ireland. Date: 1843

Railway Mania - illustration by Alfred Crowquill - a steam train running out of track as it heads to the edge of the precipice... Date: 1845

Railway Mania - written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. Date: 1845

Railway Mania - text written by Alfred Crowquill. Date: 1845

Fisher House, Islington, London. Date: 1845

Lady Eliza Deane at Dundanion, 1847
Lady Eliza Deane commencing, at Dundanion, the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway. Date: 1847

Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum
An early view of girls in front of the Female Orphan Asylum on Myrtle Street, Liverpool. Date: 1840s

Mrs Henry Baldwin and child. circa 1840s

Ghat and Temple at Gokul, India. 1840

Flying Machine, Aerial Steam Carriage
Aircraft, Flying Machine, Aerial Steam Carriage by W S. Henson. 1843

Cartoon, Lord Palmerstons Unpopular Exhibition -- a satirical comment on the Foreign Secretarys activities and interests, including a Spanish Marriage, the Confiscation of Cracow

Cartoon, A Parcel of Old ------ Frightened at a... Bill
Cartoon, A Parcel of Old ------ Frightened at a Nasty! Great! Ugly! Jew Bill. A satirical comment on the House of Lords rejection of the Jewish Disabilities Bill

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