1856 Collection (page 2)

Greece Styx
The river Styx was believed to flow down to Hades, hence the adjective Stygian, beloved of poets, for hellish darkness

Madame Vestris
LUCIA ELIZABETH VESTRIS (nee Bartolozzi), actress, singer and manager : as Venus in The Paphian Bower

Midshipmens Mess
Midshipmen eat, read and study in their mess on the Royal Navy warship Caesar

Louis Napoleon / Jeune Cdv
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON PRINCE IMPERIAL as a young boy

Louis Napoleon / Disderi
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON PRINCE IMPERIAL as a boy, on his rocking horse

Petticoat Lane, 1856
Petticoat Lane market on Sunday morning - a policeman casts a cold eye on the street traders, some of whom may not be wholly law-abiding citizens

Louis Gustave Binger
LOUIS GUSTAVE BINGER French explorer and administrator in West Africa and the Sudan

William Willett
WILLIAM WILLETT A wealthy builder who was the originator of daylight saving

Gb Shaw / Munsey 1905
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish writer Sitting down leaning on the arm of a chair

Chippewa Magician
A magician of the Chippewa people attempts to destroy a girl by a beam of sunlight and the spirit of a fox

Opium Wars / Arrow
Chinese officials arrest the crew of the British ship Arrow as pirates sparking off the war

Foden Steam Wagon AN9568 London Pride (msn 13138), built 1928, at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. (Foden Trucks was a British truck)

Mid-19th cetury brass signal cannon
MILITARIA: a mid-19th century brass signal cannon, with cylindrical barrel on a shaped truckle base, inscribed PEACE 1856 TRUST IN PROVIDENCE AND KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY with two large spoked front

17, Red Lion Square, London
A photograph of 17, Red Lion Square in London, a significant location for artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelites

April Love
A Pre-Raphaelite portrait painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, a depiction of young love, showing a girl holding her scarf, as she looks around a corner

Marquis Philippe de Massa in uniform
Marquis Philippe de Massa (1831-1910) in sub-lieutenant's uniform, French cavalry officer and author of theatrical entertainments. Date: 1856

Programme, Imperial Theatre, Rue de Courcelles, Paris
Programme, Le Maitre d'Ecole (The Schoolmaster), by Lockroy, performed by a group of young amateur comedians, Imperial Theatre, Rue de Courcelles, Paris, 15 March 1865

Theatre programme, Compiegne Palace, 29 October 1856, two one-act comedies played before the Emperor. Date: 1856

Ocean Liner - new steamship, Persia
Ocean Liner - print of Royal British and North American Mail-Packet Company's (Cunard) new steamship Persia, 9 February 1856. At the time she was the largest steamship in the world

Advert, Turner's Oat Crushing and Bean Splitting Mill, St Peter's Iron Works, Ipswich Date: 1856

Advert, Samuelson's lawn mowing machines
Advert, Samuelson's Registered Budding's lawn mowing machines, Britannia Works, Banbury Date: 1856

Advert, J Tylor and Son's registered garden syringe, small and large sizes Date: 1856

Advert, Isaac James liquid manure distributor or water cart
Advert, Isaac James of Cheltenham, liquid manure distributor or water cart Date: 1856

Advert, Parkes steel digging forks and draining tools
Advert, Messrs Burgess and Key, wholesale agents for Parkes steel digging forks and draining tools Date: 1856

Advert, William Dray and Co, Reaping Machine
Advert, William Dray and Co, Upper Thames Street, London, Patent Reaping Machine Date: 1856

Advert, T Green's lawn mowing and rolling machines
Advert, T Green's New Invention in Lawn Mowing and Rolling Machines Date: 1856

Advert, John Warner and Sons, London
Advert, John Warner and Sons, Jewin Street, London, Galvanised Iron Tub Garden Engine with Warner's Registered Spreader Date: 1856

Advert, B Samuelson, Britannia Iron Works, Banbury - Turnip Cutters, Chaff Cutters and Corn Bruising Mills Date: 1856

The carlist conspirator, 1856 - Valeriano Dominguez Becquer
Valeriano Dominguez Becquer (1833-1870). Spanish painter. The carlist conspirator. Oil on canvas, 1856. Museum of Romanticism. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Santander wet nurse, 1856, by Valeriano Dominguez Becquer
Valeriano Dominguez Becquer(1833-1870). Spanish painter. Santander wet nurse, 1856. Museum of Romanticism. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Sir Saul Samuel and Sir Alfred Stephen
A minimalistic pencil sketch of two gentlemen. Sir Saul Samuel, an Australian colonial merchant, member of parliament, pastoralist and prominent Jew

The Lion Hunt, 1855 or 1856, by Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). French painter. The Lion Hunt, 1855 or 1856. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:

George Bernard Shaw in a group photograph
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist. Seen here in a group photograph, with a large number of people in a garden. He is sitting in the second row, just off-centre to the left

Epstein portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
A portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist, by Jacob Epstein (this is the second portrait bust made by this sculptor). Date: 20th century

George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and dramatist
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist. Seen here on the right, in old age. Date: circa 1940s

Keir Hardie, socialist politician, giving a speech, London
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish socialist politician and labour leader, a founder of the Independent Labour Party and of the British Labour Party

Keir Hardie, socialist politician, as a young man
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish socialist politician and labour leader, a founder of the Independent Labour Party and of the British Labour Party. Seen here as a young man. Date: circa 1880s

Keir Hardie James 1856 1915 Scottish Socialism
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Tom Mann, trade unionist and public speaker
Head and shoulders portrait photograph of Tom Mann (1856-1941), British trade unionist and popular public speaker. This photograph was presented to Nellie Rathbone. Date: early 20th century

Rorqual Whale captured in the River Dart, Devon 1856
Pike-headed rorqual whale being attacked by a local cottager on the north shore of Millbay Creek, River Dart. The whale had beached itself when the tide fell

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

Opening of Parliament by Queen Victoria 1856
Queen Victoria opening of Parliament with Prince Albert by her side. Date: 31st January 1856

BRAMWELL BOOTH'S FUNERAL
The funeral of Bramwell Booth (1856 - 1929), son of General William Booth, who founded the Salvation Army. Bramwell Booth was chief of staff from 1880 and General from 1912 - 1929. Date: 1929

POOLE CEMETERY
An ornate gateway invites you into Poole cemetery Date: 1856

Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths

Carlo Poerio (1803 - 1867), Italian poet, Risorgimento and 1848 Revolution activist, politician. Date: 1856

Bombas Big Brother. Emperor of Russia: "They shan t take away his playthings
Bombas Big Brother. Emperor of Russia: " They shan t take away his playthings, that they shan t." Ferdinand II (1810-1859), King of the Two Sicilies

Queen Victoria visits maritime centre, Dartmouth in 1856. Date: 1856

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