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1850s Collection (page 7)

Background image1850s Collection: Cutting and grooving pencils

Cutting and grooving pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Background image1850s Collection: The Bombardment of Odessa

The Bombardment of Odessa, 22 April 1854. The boats of the fleet, going to the French steamer, Vauban, to assist in extinguishing the fire caused by the red hot shot fired from the Russian batteries

Background image1850s Collection: Gallant Affair of the Hecla and Arrogant

Gallant Affair of the Hecla and Arrogant, 20 May 1854 - cutting out a Russian barque from under the batteries of Eckness. The Arrogant, anchoring off the batteries, kept up a furious cannonade

Background image1850s Collection: Bombardment of Odessa by the English and French

Bombardment of Odessa by the English and French, 22 April 1854 - the explosion of the Imperial Mole Date: 1854

Background image1850s Collection: Grandfather's Dream of Christmas

Grandfather's Dream of Christmas Date: 1858

Background image1850s Collection: Michelangelo in His Studio visited by Pope Julius II

Michelangelo in His Studio visited by Pope Julius II, by Alexandre Cabanel. Date: 16th century

Background image1850s Collection: The Crossing Sweeper, by William Powell Frith

The Crossing Sweeper, by William Powell Frith, showing Victorian wealth and poverty. Date: 1858

Background image1850s Collection: Eastward Ho! by Henry Nelson O'Neil

Eastward Ho! by Henry Nelson O'Neil
Eastward Ho! Soldiers bidding farewell to family members as they set out for India, at the time of the Mutiny (War of Independence). Date: 1857

Background image1850s Collection: View of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, 1851

View of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, 1851
View of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, The Great Industrial Exhibition, Hyde Park, London Date: 1851

Background image1850s Collection: Statue of Godfrey de Bouillon at the Great Exhibition

Statue of Godfrey de Bouillon at the Great Exhibition
Statue of Godfrey de Bouillon, The Great Exhibition of 1851, Hyde Park, London Date: 1851

Background image1850s Collection: Yere Batan Serai, underground cisterns, Istanbul, Turkey

Yere Batan Serai, underground cisterns, Istanbul, Turkey
Yere Batan Serai, underground cisterns, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey Date: 1858

Background image1850s Collection: Stockman cattle driving in Australia

Stockman cattle driving in Australia Date: 1850s

Background image1850s Collection: Stockman's hut in Australia with aboriginal man

Stockman's hut in Australia with aboriginal man
Stockman's hut in Australia with two white men and an aboriginal man. Date: 1850s

Background image1850s Collection: Scottish women washing clothes in the open air

Scottish women washing clothes in the open air Date: circa 1850

Background image1850s Collection: Liverpool Clipper Ship

Liverpool Clipper Ship Date: circa 1850

Background image1850s Collection: Apsley Pellatt Glass Manufacture, London

Apsley Pellatt Glass Manufacture, London. Date: 1852

Background image1850s Collection: Apsley Pellatt Cut Glass Chandelier Manufacture, London

Apsley Pellatt Cut Glass Chandelier Manufacture, London. Date: 1852

Background image1850s Collection: Portrait of Sir William Fairbairn

Portrait of Sir William Fairbairn. Date: circa 1850s

Background image1850s Collection: Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a group of men dining at a table

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a group of men dining at a table, with a boy standing on the left. Date: first published 1850s

Background image1850s Collection: Queen Victoria naming the ship Royal Albert at Woolwich Dockyard in London. Date: 1854

Queen Victoria naming the ship Royal Albert at Woolwich Dockyard in London. Date: 1854

Background image1850s Collection: Victorian Sheet Music Cover Warrior Return Alfred

Victorian Sheet Music Cover Warrior Return Alfred
victorian, sheet, music, cover, warrior, return, alfred, lord, tennyson, john, blockley, carry, carrying, body, bridge, medieval, middle, ages, people, procession, home, brought, dead, words

Background image1850s Collection: Baby's funeral coffin carried by young girls in white

Baby's funeral coffin carried by young girls in white dresses. circa 1850

Background image1850s Collection: Graveside Grave Death Burial Headstone Woman

Graveside Grave Death Burial Headstone Woman
graveside, grave, death, burial, headstone, woman, women, child, children, grief, grieving, bereavement, mourning, angels, angel, wings, people, family, hovering, faith, belief, religion, 1850s

Background image1850s Collection: Funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, London

Funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, London
The funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, 18 November 1852, on its journey from Chelsea Hospital to St Paul's Cathedral, London. 1852

Background image1850s Collection: Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

Background image1850s Collection: Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London

Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London. The 1, 250 tons of telegraphic cable being laid out in five coils to go on-board the H.M.S

Background image1850s Collection: Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black

Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black
victorian, death, bereavement, mourning, white, black, 1850s, embossed, card, religion, religious, belief, faith, tree, trees, cemetery, urn, urns, funerary, rectangle, rectangular, woman, women

Background image1850s Collection: Highgate Cemetery and St Michael's Church, North London

Highgate Cemetery and St Michael's Church, North London
View of Highgate Cemetery, North London, with St Michael's Church in the background. Engraving in the Illustrated News of the World. Date: 1859

Background image1850s Collection: Embossed Victorian mourning card, three daughters

Embossed Victorian mourning card, three daughters
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a grieving woman, an urn above and a church on the right. In Memory of Louisa, fourth daughter of Edward and Louisa Paris, who died January 8th, 1858

Background image1850s Collection: Cartoon, Railway Undertaking

Cartoon, Railway Undertaking. An undertaker offers a puzzled traveller a business card: a comment on the dubious safety of rail travel. Date: 1852

Background image1850s Collection: Victorian Birds Eye View Burial Death Customs

Victorian Birds Eye View Burial Death Customs
victorian, birds, eye, view, burial, death, customs, england, 1850s, london, necropolis, national, mausoleum, brookwood, cemetery, woking, 1853, surrey, the, of, and, as, at, this, from, 10643643

Background image1850s Collection: The slitting room for steel pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

The slitting room for steel pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Background image1850s Collection: Rolling the steel for pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Rolling the steel for pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Background image1850s Collection: Bronzing steel pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Bronzing steel pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Background image1850s Collection: The grand naval review-excursionists on the floating-bridge in Portsea Island, Portsmouth

The grand naval review-excursionists on the floating-bridge in Portsea Island, Portsmouth. Date: 1856

Background image1850s Collection: Two Children in the Mines 1854

Two Children in the Mines 1854
Two young colliers helpers pulling a cart full of heavy coal upwards in the dark mines. Date: 1854

Background image1850s Collection: Longitudinal section of the Great Eastern Steam Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Longitudinal section of the Great Eastern Steam Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. To be launched on 3 November 1857 but there was major logistical issues. Date: 1857

Background image1850s Collection: Halfway House, Kennsington 1850

Halfway House, Kennsington 1850
Exterior of Halfway House, Kennsington

Background image1850s Collection: ROYALLY-OWNED CHARABANC

ROYALLY-OWNED CHARABANC
Thrupp and Co, of Oxford Street, London, have just made this elegant charabanc for the Queen of Portugal to go picnicking in. Date: 1850

Background image1850s Collection: Admirers - Crinoline 1850s

Admirers - Crinoline 1850s
Promotional music sheet for A Few Words About The Crinoline, by Thomas Walker. A young man leans forward in an attempt to obtain a kiss from a woman in a an extraordinarily wide crinoline who stands

Background image1850s Collection: View of St. Paul's Cathedral from Cannon Street. Date: 1858

View of St. Paul's Cathedral from Cannon Street. Date: 1858

Background image1850s Collection: Rowing boats going out to sea from Worthing. Date: 1858

Rowing boats going out to sea from Worthing. Date: 1858

Background image1850s Collection: WELLINGTON FUNERAL CAR

WELLINGTON FUNERAL CAR
The funeral car which carried the corpse of the Duke of Wellington to its final resting-place in St Paul's cathedral, London. Date: 17 November 1852

Background image1850s Collection: Native Australians

Native Australians
The hazards of a settler's life - a night attack by native Australians. Date: 1850s

Background image1850s Collection: Interior of the new museum, Royal College of Surgeons, located at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London

Interior of the new museum, Royal College of Surgeons, located at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Date: 1854

Background image1850s Collection: The commencement of the season. Date: 1858

The commencement of the season. Date: 1858

Background image1850s Collection: Father Christmas a peace-maker: 'Come, come Russ! You are a Christian

Father Christmas a peace-maker: "Come, come Russ! You are a Christian
Father Christmas a peace-maker: " Come, come Russ! You are a Christian, set a good example to the Turk!" Comment on Nicolas I of Russias aggression in the Crimean War against the Ottoman

Background image1850s Collection: Disadvantages of a short cut. 'I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time

Disadvantages of a short cut. "I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time
Disadvantages of a short cut. " I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time! - but this short cut will soon bring me to her enchanting presence;



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