1868 Collection (page 17)

Ludwig I / Bavaria / Miniatu
LUDWIG I OF BAVARIA King of Bavaria

Ernst Ludwig / Duke Hesse
ERNST LUDWIG CARL ALBRECHT WILHELM Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, grandson through his mother to Queen Victoria of Britain

Mayne / Richard / Sepia Pho
SIR RICHARD MAYNE Police Commissioner

Ludwig I / Bavaria / Fursten
LUDWIG I OF BAVARIA King of Bavaria (reigned 1825-48)

Ellis Jeffreys / Players
ELLIS JEFFREYS Actress in The Sacrament of Judas

Grinding Corn Ethiopia
An Ethiopian woman uses a saddle quern to grind corn

Costume Photo Late 1860S
A dress typical of the late 1860s (possibly 1868-69) with low, square neckline worn with a chemisette, a waistband, under-skirt with a single flounce & fringed over-skirt

Fashions May 1868
White paletot with peplum points. Girl: habit shirt with a puff at the sleeve top, skirt with pyramid trim, tunic with peplum skirt ends. N.B use of broad ribbon trimmings

Newest Bonnets for 1868
Spring & summer bonnets designed to be worn at the front of the head. Trimmings: lace, flowers, an aigrette & veils. All have lappets while some resemble small lace caps

Fashions October 1868
Girl: pleated skirt, front buttoning tunic, cape collar & skirt ends caught up. Blue dress: double skirt, train, pelerine cape, over skirt with diagonal rows of puffings

Polonaise Dresses 1868
Polonaise dresses: double skirts, chemisettes & low bodices & over-skirts caught up with bows. The girls dress has a sack back & the over- skirt opens at the front

Wedding Dress 1868
Dress with tight sleeves, a trained double skirt - the over-skirt overlaps at the front & is bordered with a flounce & rows of flat trim. The veil is extremely long

Voting / General Election
A general election scene in Britain before the introduction of the secret ballot: voters coming to the poll at Westminster

Entranceway at Angkor
A close-up view of the Eastern entrance to the central building at the temple complex of Angkor Wat

Balmoral Castle and surrounding country

Ethiopia / Gulf of Zula
Gulf of Zula (Annsley Bay), East Africa, where an English expedition disembarked

Costume May 1868
Lastest Paris fashion of 1868

Thomas / Hamlet / Liebig 6
Act 5 scene 4 : the final duel leaves the stage littered with bodies

Thomas / Hamlet / Liebig 5
Act 4 scene 2 : Ophelia has been driven mad, and distributes herbs with a commentary

Thomas / Hamlet / Liebig 2
Act 2 scene 7 : Hamlet with the players - he plans this evenings entertainment

Thomas / Hamlet / Liebig 1
Act 1 scene 2 : Hamlet asks his companions to leave him alone with the ghost of his father

Events / Africa / Ethiopia
The body of King Theodore is discovered after the attack on Magdala

Homage to Theodore
Ethiopian insurgents doing homage to Emperor Theodore

Ethiopia / Rassam-Theodore
Rassam negotiates with King Theodore

Ethiopia / Magdala / 1868
The attack on the forces of King Theodore at Magdala

Rossini / Rumpf
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI Italian composer in middle age

Rossini / Anon Eng
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI the Italian composer in middle age

Rossini Woolnoth
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI the Italian composer in middle age

Benjamin Lee Guinness
BENJAMIN LEE GUINNESS Irish brewer; manager (from 1825), sole proprietor (1855) of brewing business founded by his father; first lord mayor of Dublin (1851)

Penny Royal & Columbine
MENTHA PULEGIUM (Pennyroyal) & AQUILEGIA (Columbine) depicted with cabbage white butterflies & a yellow butterfly

Bonnet / August 1868
A bonnet of the shape then fashionable worn at the front of the head and with lappets fastened beneath the chin. Trimming include yellow flowers & a pom-pon

Little Women / Singing
Tink ob yer marcies, chillen, tink ob yer marcies !;

Little Women / Amy / Ice
Amy falls into the ice but is saved by Laurie with the aid of a hockey stick

Little Women / Meg / Packing
Meg goes to Vanity Fair - packing her things

Alcott / Women - 18
Jos sacrifice : she has her hair cut short

Alcott / Women - 15
The cover of the 1912 edition

Landseer Lion
One of the four bronze lions, on granite plinths, sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer, and cast by Marocchetti. They were unveiled in 1868. St-Martin- in-the-Fields church is behind

Antimacassar - 1
Antimacassar in Gobelin stitch, intended to protect furniture from the macassar oil widely used as hair dressing. It has become the archetypal Victorian symbol

Death / Funerals / Rossini
His funeral cortege leaves Trinity church, Paris

Oxford & Cambridge Run
The Oxford and Cambridge Sports in the Christchurch Meadows, Oxford

Bullying Husband / Watson
Bewhiskered ogre of a husband threatens his small and meek looking wife with his fist!

Charles Kean / R3 Gloster
Charles Kean as Gloucester in Shakespeares Richard III Act I Scene I

Emperor Meiji
When Shogun Keiki abdicates, civil war breaks out, but the emperor Meiji is able to seize control and makes a triumphal entry into Yedo (Tokyo). Now Japan starts to modernise

Alexandre Walewski
ALEXANDRE FLORIAN JOSEPH COLONNA, comte WALEWSKI natural son of Napoleon I and countess Walewska : French diplomat, ambassador to Britain

Spanish Revolution 1868
REVOLUTION: Hanging out the flag of the Revolution at the Public Offices in the Puerta Del Sol, Madrid. A jubilant crowd gives it support

Revolution in Spain 1868
REVOLUTION: People reading a proclamation of the Provisional Government in the Puerta Del Sol, Madrid

Albert Memorial 1877
Designed by George Gilbert Scott. The main structure was completed 1868, edifice opened to the public in 1872. Alberts statue installed two years previous to this photo

Throwing Javelin
Le tir du javelot - hurling the javelin - at the Fete Federale des Gymnastes, held at Locle, Switzerland

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