1849 Collection (page 18)

Blunt / Cassiopeia / Pl 30
The constellation of Cassiopeia, a woman seated on a chair, lightly clothed, with both hands raised, holding a palm branch

Blunt / Gemini / Plate 40
The constellation of Gemini, the twins

Blunt / Taurus / Plate 39
The constellation of Taurus, the head, neck, shoulders and forelegs of a horned bull

Blunt / Ursa Major / Pl 24
Ursa Major : the constellation is composed, at first sight, of seven conspicuous stars, four of which are in a rectangular figure and form

Blunt / Aquila / Antinous / 37
The constellation is that of Aquila and Antinous

Blunt / Bootes / Plate 35
The constellation of Bootes - the figure is that of a man holding a club in his right hand and leading two hounds with his left

BLUNT / HERCULES / 34 / 1849
The constellation of Hercules

BLUNT / CEPHEUS / 33 / 1849
The constellation of Cepheus which takes the form of a regal personage, seated, having a diadem on his head, a sceptre in his right hand, with his left hand extended

BLUNT / PEGASUS / 31 / 1849
Lying near the head of the figure of Andromeda lies the constellation of Pegasus

BLUNT / ANDROMEDA / 29 / 1849
The constellation of Andromeda is that of a woman unclothed to the girdle, her arms extended, and each attached to a fragment of rock by a chain

Blunt / Auriga / Plate 27
The constellation of Auriga which lies between Gemini and Perseus

Blunt / Lynx / Plate 26
The constellation of the Lynx, which belongs to the Northern Hemisphere

BLUNT / PERSEUS / 28 / 1849
A line passing through the three great stars of Andromeda marks the head of the constellation of Perseus

Blunt / Ursa Minor / Pl 25
Ursa Minor and Draco : the pole star is situated at the extremity of the tail of Ursa Minor. Draco separates Ursa Major from Ursa Minor by a portion of its tail

Blunt / Constellations / 23
Constellations of the Northern Hemisphere

Blunt / Sun from Planets
The Sun as seen from different planets

Blunt / Relative Planets
The relative sizes of the planets. A-Mercury, B-Venus, C-Earth D- Mars, H-Uranus, top-Jupiter and bottom-Saturn

Blunt / Phases of Saturn
Phases of the planet Saturn

Blunt / Waning Moon / Pl 19
The waning moon shown over a mountainous landscape

Blunt / Crescent Moon / Pl17
The crescent moon - a view over a landscape

Blunt / Suns Disc / Plate 7
The nomenclature of the lunar spots

Blunt / Uranus / Plate 12
A view of Uranus, or Herschel as it was also known

Blunt / Saturn / Plate 11
A view of Saturn

Blunt / Two View of Mars / 9
Two views of Mars

Blunt / Venus / Plate 8
Two views of Venus

Blunt / Earth & Asteroids
The Earth in relation to the Sun and inferior planets and asteroids

Blunt / 1st 4 Planets / Mvem
A diagram showing Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

Blunt / Planetary System
The planetary system

Blunt / Earths Rotundity
The Earths rotundity

Blunt / Earths Dimensions
The Earths figure and dimensions

The Fixed Stars
The fixed stars

Blunt / Three Rainbows
Three rainbows over a river with a bridge in the background and ships in the foreground

Volcano and Eclipse
An eclipse of the moon seen above a smoking volcano

Polluted London Water
THE CITY NARCISSUS Punch accuses Londons officials of being too self-satisfied to realise the danger to the the citys health from the polluted water of the Thames

Buying Poison
Buying laudanum and arsenic over the counter in a chemists shop

Anne Bronte / Profile
ANNE BRONTE Author of novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Hungary / 1849 / Shaumla
Hungarian emigrants marching towards Shaumla

Zachary Taylor President
ZACHARY TAYLOR known as Old Rough-and-Ready 12th American President (1849-50)

Blunt / The Cause of Tides
High and low tides are caused by the combined attraction of the Sun and Earths Moon

Marc Isambard Brunel
MARC ISAMBARD BRUNEL enginner, notably the Thames Tunnel

Randolph Churchill Spks
LORD RANDOLPH SPENCER CHURCHILL speaking in the Birmingham Town Hall

Narrow Plank Bridge
Though rudimentary in design, this bridge, consisting of a single wooden plank, provides the pedestrian with a simple yet efficaceous means of traversing a narrow stream

Womens Rights / Satire
Wishful thinking: " The ladies Trying a Contemptible Scoundrel for a Breach of Promise". Indigant mothers & jilted brides hold the would- be husband to account

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

Charles John Darling, Judge

Miners Playing Faro
Miners gamble their money playing the card game Faro in California

William Hunter Kendal
WILLIAM HUNTER KENDAL actor-manager, with his wife, MADGE KENDAL (nee Robertson) (1849 - 1935) actress

British Take Trujillo
To secure repayment of debts, the Royal Navy ship Plumper captures the port of Trujillo and briefly occupies it, destroying property etc

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