1849 Collection

Frederic Chopin / Etude
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his C minor Etude

Karl Marx in his Study
KARL MARX German political theorist - working in his study in London in 1849

Frederic Chopin / Preludes
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his preludes

Edgar Allan Poe (Cole)
EDGAR ALLAN POE American writer

The fancy fair, Princes Park, Liverpool, August, 1849. Print shows a festival and balloon ascension during the campaign to raise funds in support of the Northern and Southern Hospitals in Liverpool

HARRODS 1953
A large expensive car approaches the Knightsbridge store, which is now somewhat larger than the original grocers shop of 1849

Balloon event, Charles Green, Stowmarket
Charles Green ballooning poster, advertising his 413rd ascent, from the Vicarage Grounds, Stowmarket in his Royal Victoria Balloon

City of London Union Infirmary, Mile End Road
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clements Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse

The Enterprise and Investigator surrounded by ice, Barro
Engraving showing the Enterprise and Investigator surrounded by pack ice in Barrows Straits, September 1849. These two ships were used by Sir James Clark Rosss Expedition of 1848-1849 to search

General Von Mackensen
GENERAL AUGUST VON MACKENSEN German military commander wearing the famous Deaths Head headgear

Chopin [Anon]
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician

Ancient Greek Game
Ancient Greece: game of Mora

Blunt / Cygnus & Lyra / Pl32
The constellation of Cygnus - a flying swan - and Lyra - that of an ancient Greek lyre

Madame Recamier
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD Also known as MADAME RECAMIER, influential French social and political hostess

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). American writer. Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Tales). Spanish edition

Harbour / Belfast Opening
Opening of the New Channel, Belfast Harbour - the start of the procession

The Wolverton Mechanics Institute soiree
The anniversary meeting of the Wolverton Mechanics Institute in the large engine room of Wolverton Station.1, 500 people attended the soiree

Dickens / D. Copperfield
David arrives at the home of his aunt, Betsy Trotwood

George Eliot (Durade)
GEORGE ELIOT nee Mary Ann Cross, later Evans. Writer, painted in 1849 - her most appealing portrait

Whaling Ship / 1849
The Samuel Enderby, a whaling ship depicted departing for the Auckland Islands

India / Sikh War / Multan
British forces capture 2 Sikh standards during hand-to-hand fighting in Mooltan (Multan)

Blunt / Full Moon / Plate 13
The Moon at the full

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV Russian physiologist

David Copperfield / Phiz
David Copperfield frontispiece

View of Providence R. I. from the south. 1849
View of Providence R.I. from the south. 1849

Blunt / Pisces / Plate 49
The constellation of Pisces, the fish

India / Sikh War / Multan
Bombay European Fusiliers storm the fort at Mooltan (Multan) at the Khoonee Boorj

Miners Dancing Together
A miners ball in California Date: 1849

The Illuminations in Sackville Street, Dublin
The illuminations in Sackville Street, Dublin with an electric light shining on the Nelson Column during the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in 1849

Sketch for Le Peintre, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). The artist leans back to view his work, resting his head on a womans shoulder

Winson Green Prison, Birmingham
The castle-like entrance to Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, built in 1849 as a local gaol for adult male offenders

City of London Workhouse, Bow Road, East London
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road in East London, the City of London Union Workhouse opened in 1849. The palatial building, designed by Richard Tress

City of London Infirmary, Bow Road, East London
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clements Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse

Union Workhouse, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
The Union workhouse erected in 1849-50 at Chamber Hills, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, on what is now Fountain Street. The site is now Tameside Hospital

Blunt / Ophiucus / Plate 36
The constellation of Ophiucus - the figure is that of a man wrestling with a serpent

Frederic Chopin / Deathbed
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician on his deathbed

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1849
The Italianate exterior of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London). The foundation stone was laid in 1849 by Prince Albert

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall interior, 1849
The interior of the then-new Liverpool Philharmonic Concert Hall, at the time of the Liverpool Music Festival, 1849. The building was eventually replaced in 1939 after its predecessor burnt down in

Village of Moveen during the 1840 s
A landscape view of the village of Moveen during the forced evictions of the 1840 s. Dwellings, some of them without a roof, appear without human habitation

Passengers on the deck of an Emigrant Ship, 1849
Engraving showing emigrants on the deck of their ship, at sea, 1849. A group of children are being taught their lessons by a school master whilst a small crowd gathers around the ships galley

Edmund Pendleton Gaines
EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES American military commander who served in the 1812 war, the Seminole war, the Mexican war, the Black Hawk war etc

Mme Recamier / Cig Card
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD French society beauty and wit

Charlotte Bronte / Shirley
Shirley Keeldare sits pensively at the window

Crowned Pidgeon
CROWNED PIDGEON

Blunt / Planet / Parallax
A diagram showing the parallax of the planets

Monoceros Etc Constell
The constellation of Monoceros - a unicorn - and Canis Minor - a small dog

Frederic Chopin / Krzesz
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician the last notes

Cartoon, Disraeli Measuring the British Lion
Cartoon, The State of the Nation, Disraeli Measuring the British Lion. Mr Disraelis motion for a Select Committee to consider the state of the nation, in consequence of the repeal of the Corn Law

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