1853 Collection (page 11)

Turkey Bosphorus
The northern end of the Bosphorus at its junction with the Black Sea, viewed from the Giants Hill

Switzerland Bern
The Corps Historique march through the streets, celebrating the Fifth Grand Centennial Fete

School for the Blind
A sketch of the female work room at the School for the Indigent Blind in St Georges Fields, founded in 1791

Trovatore - 1
Manrico the troubadour serenades Leonora but is overheard by the Count di Luna who of course is also in love with Leonora

Trovatore - 2
Manrico the troubadour and the Count di Luna confront each other and prepare to fight a duel

Trovatore - 5
Leonora tells Manrico he is free, but at the price of giving herself to the Count

Cricketer, Wood
Henry Wood Cricketer - Surrey

Grand Dinner to General Sir Charles J. Napier, at the London
Banquet held by the directors of the East India Company at the London Tavern in honour of Sir Charles Napiers appointment as commander of the British army in the East Indies

Mecca Pilgrims at Alex
Pilgrims camp at Alexandria on their way to Mecca

The Eagle in Love
Commemorating Napoleon IIIs wedding to Eugenie -- she is clipping his sharp claws

City of London Dining
A busy scene in a City of London dining room

Large Lanteen-Rigged Dhow on the Nile, 1853
Engraving of a large passenger-carrying lanteen-rigged dhow, on the Nile, Egypt, 1853

Miller & Water Mill C19
An elderly miller carries his corn to the mill on his back

Giacomo Bove
GIACOMO BOVE Italian explorer, sailed to the Antarctic with Nordenskjold, fell sick in Africa and took his own life while ill

Racial / Navajo Wigwams
Navajo wigwams

William Flinders Petrie
SIR WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS PETRIE English Egyptologist. Developed principle of sequence dating of potsherds

Cricket Match 1853
A village cricket match. Date: 1853

Sir Marcus Samuel
SIR MARCUS SAMUEL Viscount Bearset, petroleum entrepeneur. Lord Mayor of London from 1902-3

7th Duke Beaufort
HENRY SOMERSET, seventh duke of BEAUFORT statesman

Off to the Panto
The whole family are off to the pantomime - but lawks ! will they all manage to fit into a single cab ?

Fete at Bern
The fifth grand centennial fete at Bern - ceremony at the reception pavilion. Date: 1853

Fete at Bern - 2
At the fifth grand centennial fete at Bern the Corps Historique process grandly in the market place

Japan Shimonoseki
General view

French Rag Collector
A French chiffonnier - rag-gatherer

Java Blacksmith
A Javanese blacksmith at his anvil

Abbas I / Egypt / Anon Eng
Abbas I/Egypt/Anon Eng

Charlotte Bronte / Vilette
VILLETTE Lucy Snowe and Paul Emanuel, and the nun

Bear with Sore Head
Conflict with Turkey : the Russians are defeated at Oltenitza, leaving tsar Nikolai I a bear with a sore head : war in the Crimea is imminent

Russia and Turkey both seek to dominate Eastern Europe - their conflicting ambitions will lead to war in the Crimea, with French and British intervention

Magistrates Court
A British magistrate presides in a kutchery - local court - in Oudh (now part of Uttar Pradesh) : at this time Oudh was independent, but it was

Myanmar Tenasserim
Thien (1852) is unfindable today, but my guess is that it is Tenasserim, on the southern coast of Myanmar

Honduras Bay Islands
Proclamation of the British colony of Bay Islands, Honduras

W Indies Islas De Bahia
(also known as the Bay Islands) Coastal view

Election Bribery 1853
Bribery at election time

LA MODE 1853
Lace trimmed black pardessus, pale grey skirt & a cap adorned with ribbons & flowers. Brown outfit: skirt trimmed in the pyramid style, caraco body worn over a habit-shirt

Franklin Pierce 4
FRANKLIN PIERCE American statesman, President 1853-1857

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet and artist, DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882), at the age of twenty-five

Male Type / Forbes Actor
A typical late Victorian: Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor-manager (1853-1937)

Dakota Medicine Man
A Dakota medicine man treats a patient with medicine and magic

Sir Charles James Napier
SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER friend of Byron, suppressed Chartist riots, in India commanded Sind conquest

Alphonse Bertillon
ALPHONSE BERTILLON French criminologist PORTRAIT : FRONT & PROFILE

Cricket at Corfu
The soldiers stationed at the garrison on Corfu play a cricket match. Date: 1853

Nat Langham, Boxer
Langham (1820 - 1871) entered boxings hall of fame by defeating Tom Sayers in 1853. He was the only man to ever do so

Foxhunting (Leech)
A huntsman in full flight

The Meet (John Leech)
The huntsmen gather to smoke and drink before the days action begins

Herbert Draper Beerbohm Tree, British actor
Sir Herbert Draper Beerbohm Tree, British actor

Franklin Pierce, President of the United States
Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (1853-1857)

Mother, Child, Parrot
Mother and child with a tame parrot on a perch

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