1851 Collection (page 14)

Francis (Frank) Smyth Powell
Pencil drawing of Francis (Frank) Smyth Powell (1850-1931), one of the children of the Reverend Baden Powell and his third wife Henrietta, by the artist Carl Hartmann (1818-1857)

Bohemian glass at the Great Exhibition, 1851
A display of fancy Bohemian coloured glass on display at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Date: 1851

Battys Grand National Hippodrome, London, 1851
Engraving showing two female charioteers performing at Battys Grand National Hippodrome, Kensington, London, in 1851. Date: 10 May 1851

Great Exhibition, portion of south transept
A panorama of the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park : the south entrance west with people entering the building, the Royal Commissioners Room with a bronze group

Louisa Vctess Beresford
LOUISA, viscountess BERESFORD, wife of general William Beresford, viscount; widow of Thomas Hope. Date: ? - 1851

Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row, London. A plaque on the wall reads - The Reverend James Palmers Charity, founded 1656, rebuilt 1851. Date: 1930s

Peckforton Castle
Lodge Gate of Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, England, a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It was built for John Tollemache; designed by Anthony Salvin

The Lever Memorial, outside the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, in memory of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and his wife. Date: 1851 - 1925

Aristide Bruant Photo
ARISTIDE BRUANT French singer who came to personify the night life of Montmartre and the world of cafe satire, photo of 1901. Date: 1851 - 1925

Gavin Earl Breadalbane
GAVIN CAMPBELL, 7th earl of BREADALBANE Scottish peer. Date: 1851 - ?

Birmingham Botanic garden, 1851
Birmingham and the Great Exhibition-a fete champetre at the Botanic Garden in 1851. Royal commissioners and other officers of the Great Exhibition visited Birmingham to see its " manufacturing

The Great Exhibition: Bay of the Fine Art Court
The bay of the fine art court and the Great Exhibition which included glass mosaics, architectural models, decorations and designs. Date: 1851

Fellows of the Zoological Society by George Cruikshank. Cruikshank pairs the fellows up with their look-a-like animal. Date: 1851

Advertisement for Martell Cognac, featuring a ship at sea, powered by sail and steam, of the kind used to export the product in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition

Ariels Girdle
A light locomotive engine on four wheels, with carriages attached. Exhibited by W.B Adams, designer and patenter, during the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, 1851. Date: 1851

A street riot on Giltspur Street, London
Crowds attack the carriage in which Mr Sloane is riding as he travels to court, accused of horrendous cruelty to a servant girl

Interior of Old Crathie Church
Worshippers inside old Crathie Kirk in the Scottish village of Crathie in 1851, known as the place of worship of the British Royal Family when they are at nearby Balmoral

Great Exhibition Transept
A view of the interior of the Transept of the building constructed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, the Crystal Palace, looking north. Date: January 1851

Great Exhibition, Indian court
Statues in front of the Indian court at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park : Indian shawls and embroidered scarfs; statues including Satan Tempting Eve, the Jealousy of Medea

Common Snipe (Morris)

Rosebery / Whitehall
COUNTESS OF ROSEBERY British aristocracy - Hannah, only daughter & heiress of Baron Mayer de Rothschild; married 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1878 Date: 1851 - 1890

Gluck & King / Ruskin
Gluck & King/Ruskin

Morris / Duck / Goosander
(Mergus merganser) The largest of the British saw-bills. Date: 1851

Erards Grand Piano
Erards grand piano, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, and subsequently purchased by Napoleon III. Date: 1851

Geological Museum Inside
The Great Hall of the Economic Geology Museum, Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, London, (previously the Practical Geology Museum) Date: 1851

Turner / Cheyne Walk
JMW TURNER House in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, where the artist died on 19 December 1851 Date: 1775 - 1851

Shooting Apple Trees
In Devonshire, on Twelfth Eve, countryfolk go into the orchards and shoot at one of the best trees, to ensure a good fruit crop : much cider is drunk on this occasion... Date: 1851

Christmas Tree 1851
A Christmas tree decorated with international flags with the Crystal Palace in the background. Date: 1851

Joanna Baillie Silhouette
JOANNA BAILLIE Writer Date: 1762 - 1851

Mr Fox the Lawyer 1851

Steam hercules with Wilsons patent valve, side elevation Date: 1851

30 hp high pressure engine directly applied to rolls, front and side elevations Date: 1851

Double boiler tank engine, Grantham
Double boiler tank engine, side elevation and sections, Grantham Date: 1851

Locomotive passenger engine, sections Date: 1851

First cast-iron house in New York
The first cast-iron house constructed in New York, by James Bogardus, consisting of four floors

Applegath vertical printing press
The Illustrated London News being printed at the Great Exhibition on the patented Applegath (often mis-spelled Applegarth) vertical printing-press

Canterbury Association Ships
The Canterbury Association ships Bangalore, Dominion, Duke of Portland, Lady Nugent, Midlothian and Canterbury in the East India Docks, London

Furniture by Holland and Sons
Table with inlaid top, decorated with twining snakes, eagle and griffin claws and lily pads. This table featured in the 1851 Great Exhibition

A page from the Illustrated London News, 1951, showing a reconstruction of Dr. Merryweather of Whitbys Tempest Prognosticator, and an illustration detailing how the device works

Music cover for I Met Her In The Crystal Halls, a Ballad inspired by the Great Exhibition, with words by J E Carpenter (1813-1885) and music by Stephen Glover (1812-1870)

Music cover for The Grand International Lancers by C C Amos, depicting a crowd of people outside the Crystal Palace at the time of the Great Exhibition

Thames Bank Depository, Pimlico, London
The Thames Bank Depository, by the river at Ranelagh Road, Pimlico, London

Fire in Clock Tower
Fire threatens the new Clock Tower (housing Big Ben) in the rebuilt Parliament buildings

Gerard Leman / Stamp
GERARD MATHIEU LEMAN (1851 - 1920) Belgian general and Governor of Liege

Gerard Foch / Stamp
FERDINAND FOCH (1851 - 1929) Marshal of the French army during World war I

Ernest Augustus Hannover
ERNEST AUGUSTUS - Duke of Cumberland (1799) - 5th son of George III - became King of Hanover in 1837

Prince Ernst Augustus
ERNEST AUGUSTUS, Duke of Cumberland (1799) - son of King George III. Became King of Hanover in 1837

Marble Arch London
Nashs arch was originally built in 1827 and placed in front of Buckingham Palace, but was moved to its present site in 1851

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