1859 Collection (page 19)

Verdi / Ballo / Liebig 5
Act 3 scene 8 : at the masked ball Oscar reveals what costume Riccardo will be wearing

Verdi / Ballo / Liebig 3
Act 2 scene 5 : Amelia reveals her identity to the plotters

Verdi / Ballo / Liebig 1
Act 1 scene 5 : Riccardo, governor of Boston, holds court

Jaures Caricature
JEAN-JOSEPH-MARIE-AUGUSTE JAURES French radical statesman, caricatured as a firebrand

Faust - Liebig
FAUST Mephistopheles, summoned by magic, shows Faust a vision of Marguerite, offering him his youth restored in exchange for his soul

Faust - Liebig - 5
FAUST Mephistopheles finds Marguerite, now pregnant, in church, trying to repent in prayer; he prevents her and predicts her damnation

Faust - Liebig - 3
FAUST Faust courts Marguerite in her garden, and now she is more disposed to be friendly

Faust - Liebig - 2
FAUST Faust - once again a handsome youth, accosts Marguerite in the market-place : she refuses, but Mephistopheles promises she will yield

Barthelemy / Sew Machine
French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier with his machine : he patented the first practical sewing machine in France in 1830

Sappho in Rough Sea
British sailing warship, depicted encountering heavy seas off the coast of Honduras. However, she survives another ten years before sinking in 1859

Gounod / Faust
Mephistopheles, magically summoned by the scholar Faust, proposes a deal... youth restored, in exchange for his soul

Grimm Bros / German Mag
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM German folklorists and philologists

Grimm Bros / Sichling
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM German folklorists and philologists

Washington Irving / Brown
WASHINGTON IRVING American writer

Customs / Scotland / Burns N
Brown entertains his friends wi a haggis by stabbing it and splattering them all as they sit around the table on Burns Night !

Samuel Smiles Le Lieure
SAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859, at the age of 78

Samuel Smiles Walker
SAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859, at the age of 58

Samuel Smiles Dag type
SAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859, at the age of 28

Samuel Smiles Carte Vis
SAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859

Confessional, Peru
A Catholic priest hears a confession in a church at Lima, Peru

German Mail Coach Snow
A German mail coach makes its way through heavy snow, the horses slipping on the icy road. Young Bismarck is inside the coach, if you care

Alexander Cockburn / Anon
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1802-1880), 10th Baronet British jurist who became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1859

Great Eastern / Lifeboats
Lifeboats on the starboard quarter of the Great Eastern

Mother / Chatterbox Dtr
A mother scolds her daughter for being a terrible chatterbox

Shooting Wild Turkey
Shooting wild turkey for the Thanksgiving Dinner, where they will be served with cranberry sauce

Vogue for Antique Jewels
Satire on the fad for classical jewellery: a woman back from the Grand Tour is laden down with reproduction antique Roman jewellery

Dickens / Tale of 2 Cities
Sydney Carton - lawyer who gets a charge of treason reversed for Charles Darnay due to a strong physical resemblance; he takes Darneys place at the guillotine

USA / Washington / Birds-Eye
A bird s-eye view of Washington, with the Capitol building dominating the city

Saltash Viaduct Opened
Prince Albert opens Brunels magnificent viaduct, which also inaugurates the rail link to Cornwall

LOSS OF INDIAN QUEEN
This sailing vessel strikes an iceberg in the South Pacific

Riot at Church Closure
Crowds riot outside the Mission House over the closure of St Georges in the East church

Johann Von Oesterreich
ARCHDUKE JOHANN OF AUSTRIA Son of Leopold II, commanded Austrian Army in Napoleonic Wars, statesman who played a prominent role in the 1848 uprisings, chosen Regent

SIR SIDNEY LEE 1859-1926
SIR SIDNEY LEE An eminent English man of letters who edited the Dictionary of National Biography and wrote the life of Shakespeare

Lon Miss Soc Museum
This museum is full of weird and wonderful objects acquired by missionaries in various far-flung corners of the world. Whatever happened to them, I wonder ?

Wilhelm & Vicky
WILHELM II, as a Prince, reading a book with his mother, Victoria (1840 - 1900), eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and later Empress of Germany

Oldham Market Place 1860
The drinking fountain in the market place at Oldham, Lancashire, erected in 1859 and providing refreshment to all who thirst

Ivo Bligh / Eng Cricketer
IVO FRANCIS WALTER BLIGH 8th Earl of Darnley Led the English touring side to Australia in 1882, meeting his future wife in Melbourne

I K Brunel / Mayall
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL Designer and builder of railroads, bridges, tunnels, steamships, docks &c

Costume / Men 1859
Three gentlemen meet & talk in a park. They wear: evening dress (rear view); day dress of pale grey trousers, S-B waistcoat, blue coat; check trousers & brown S-B overcoat

Sydney University / 1859
A view of Sydney University, founded in 1852

Curies on Bikes
MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE The two scientists set out on a Sunday afternoon cycle ride

Cobden Honoured
RICHARD COBDEN Radical statesman, honoured at a soiree at Rochdale, Manchester

Jean Jaures, Speaking
JEAN JAURES depicted singing the revolutionary song La carmagnole, which contains the words Tous les bourgeois on les pendra ! (we shall hang every bourgeois)

Perils of Crinolines No4
A young lady in a cage crinoline is confronted with the folly of the new fashion as she is prevented from negotiating a staggered stile on a country walk

Perils of Crinolines No3
The High Style (Stile): a woman is thankful that no one is looking as she struggles over a country stile in a cage crinoline, thereby exposing her legs

Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
SIR CECIL SPRING-RICE British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, he also wrote the text to the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country

Unification of Italy
ITALIAN WAR OF UNIFICATION: During the war for Italian independence French troops land at Genoa

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