1866 Collection (page 6)

Gavarni (Lorentz)
SULPICE HIPPOLYTE GUILLAUME CHEVALIER, known as GAVARNI Brilliant French illustrator, best known for his sketches of social life and character. Date: 1801 - 1866

Lewis Cass - 3
LEWIS CASS American soldier and statesman, one-time presidential candidate. with his autograph Date: 1782-1866

Lewis Cass - 2
LEWIS CASS American soldier and statesman, one-time presidential candidate. with his autograph Date: 1782-1866

Lewis Cass - 4
LEWIS CASS American soldier and statesman, depicted in the Senate, Washington, 1856. Date: 1782-1866

Joseph Bellange Artist 1
JOSEPH LOUIS HIPPOLYTE BELLANGE French artist in 1840. Date: 1800 - 1866

Roger De Beauvoir
ROGER DE BEAUVOIR (Eugene Auguste Roger de Bully) French writer and dandy. Date: 1806 - 1866

Antoine Louis Barye
ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE (1795-1875) French sculptor, towards the end of his life, looking proud and prosperous. Date: 1866

Massimo Marchese Azeglio
MASSIMO TAPARELLI, marchese d AZEGLIO Italian statesman, aide-de- camp to Vittorio Emanuele, king of Sardinia. Date: 1798 - 1866

Preraphaelite Model
The quintessential preraphaelite model - here depicting the Lady of Shallott, but she could pose for countless other Victorian femmes fatales or doomed. Date: 1866

Fountain of the Virgin
At Nazareth you can take water from the self-same fountain as Jesuss mother : hence its name the fountain of the Virgin, Date: 1866

Path of a Drunkard
The path of a drunkard is a story of degradation from polite civility to filthy clothes and unruly behaviour. Date: 1866

Go-Cart and Pram 1866
Technological progress in the field of infantile transportation - yesterdays go-cart gives way to todays perambulator. Date: 1866

Womens Public Baths
Public baths for women, Golden Lane, London. Date: 1866

Disraeli / Reform 1866
Political " Economy" Disraeli thinks the old Reform Bill 1859 banner will do nicely for the opening scene if its spruced up a bit Lord Derby is not so sure. Date: 1 December 1866

Rail Accident Beckenham
Wreckage from the rail accident near Beckenham, on the London, Chatham and Dover railway line Date: 1866

Gaiety Theatre / Strand
This theatre on the Strand, London, opened on 21 December 1868. The principal entrance and foyer in the Strand was the site of the Strand Music Hall, demolished in 1866. Date: 1921

Stupendous Chignon
CHIGNONS: A fashion conscious woman, no doubt employing a prodigious amount of false hair, sports a large chignon. Her horse likewise is completely chignoned! Date: 1866

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

Johns Rarey / Aguado 1858
JOHN SOLOMON RAREY American horse doctor, tamer and trainer Date: 1827 - 1866

KATE RORKE English actress and drama teacher Date: 1866 - 1945

Koeniggratz - Victory
BATTLE OF KOENIGGRATZ (aka Sadowa) - the victorious kaiser congratulates his men Date: 3 July 1866

Battle of Skalitz
BATTLE OF SKALITZ The Austrians are overwhelmed by a charge of the Prussian cavalry Date: 28 June 1866

Koeniggratz - Bayonets
BATTLE OF KOENIGGRATZ (aka Sadowa) - bayonet charge by the Prussian infantry Date: 3 July 1866

Richard Le Gallienne
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE romantic writer Date: 1866 - 1947

The Asylum of Peace
THE ASYLUM OF PEACE Exile:-" Ah, Dear Britannia, it is with you, only, I can be certain of a safe home!" Date: 2 June 1866

Disraeli / Cricket Innings
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Lord Derby advises Dizzy to bat carefully against the Liberal opposition (Gladstone, Russell and Bright are waiting to bowl) Date: 7 July 1866

Lewis Cass (Chappel)
LEWIS CASS American lawyer and statesman Date: 1782-1866

Winfield Scott (Chappel)
WINFIELD SCOTT U.S. military Date: 1786-1866

Junction at Smithfield
The new Metropolitan Line (underground) meets the London, Chatham and Dover Railway near Smithfield Date: 1866

Aldersgate Station
Aldersgate Street station, one of the original stations of the first Metropolitan Railway Date: 1866

Mania / Rail Projector
A railway projector - depicted as a circus acrobat - hides from the anger of the investors whose money he holds in his bags... Date: 1866

Maud Gonne / Tatler / 1904
MAUD GONNE Irish actress and patriot with her husband Major MacBride and their son, in Paris Date: 1866 - 1953

Helena / Whitehall
HELENA, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN Daughter of Queen Victoria; married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein in 1866 Date: 1846 - 1923

John Keble / Halpin
JOHN KEBLE English clergyman and poet Date: 1792 - 1866

Fb Busoni / Graphic 1924
FERRUCCIO BENVENUTO BUSONI Italian pianist and composer Date: 1866 - 1924

P H Sheridan (1866)
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831 - 1888) - American military, from a photo taken 1866

Frontispiece, Legends of the Wandering Jew and the Sixteen Queens of Munster -- the Wandering Jew and the tailor Jean de Leyde (John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader). Date: published 1866

The New Foreign and India Offices - The Quadrangle Date: 1866

The New Foreign and India Offices - The Park Front Date: 1866

Antoinette Powell-Cotton with Miss May Glass
Antoinette Powell-Cotton (1913-1997) by a tennis net in the garden at Quex Park with her fathers secretary, Miss May Glass in August 1916

Major PHG Powell-Cotton, Quex Park on his 50th birthday
Major PHG Powell-Cotton of Quex Park wearing a head wreath of fuschias for his 50th birthday. His journal records D.(Diana, his eldest child, b. 1907) had made me a head wreath of fushias

Hannah Powell-Cotton, Commandant of Kent / 178
A studio photograph of Hannah Powell-Cotton in her uniform as Commandant of the Birchington Voluntary Aid Detachment, without hat. This jacket survives at Quex Park today (2015)

Christening 1918 Tree Planting Proxy Godfathers group
Christopher Powell-Cotton (1918-2006) was christenend at All Saints Church, Birchington on 20 April 1918. Afterwards a tree was planted in the grounds of Quex Park

Egg & spoon race, Quex House garden
Patients on crutches, some with amuputated legs, are seen taking part in a race in Quex House garden. They are holding a spoon with an egg in their mouths

Five Imperial patients, Winter Garden, Quex Park
Five Imperial patients outside the front of the Winter Garden, Quex Park. They are wearing hospital blues the uniform worn by patients who were in the Imperial forces

Hannah Powell-Cotton in donkey cart outside the front door of Quex House. The cart is being driven by an Imperial hospital patient. Standing alongside is a member of the Quex House domestic staff

Mrs Mary Holmes and a Belgian patient
Mrs Mary Holmes (Lady Superintendent) and an unknown Belgian patient standing outside the Winter Garden, Quex Park. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

Quex House in the snow in February 1916. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment

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