C18th Collection

Chatsworth House C18Th
Chatsworth House & its extensive, landscaped grounds in the middle of the 18th century. Avenues of trees, walled gardens, waterworks & fountain are depicted

Stowe House C18Th
Sir Richard Temples House at Stowe, designed by William Cleere & begun in 1676. This view dates from a later period when many improvements have been made. Now Stowe School

French Tailors C18Th
An elegant Frenchman has a fitting for a new coat. A tailor, down on one knee, makes some adjustments. Another, sewing buttons, sits cross legged on a bench

C18th Highwaymen / Robbers
John Everett & Richmond Bird rob a coach on Hounslow Heath

C18TH COSTUME / 1913
C18th costume for a masked ball: gold dress with panniers & echelles, white petticoat ornamented with a garland of roses, black lace engageantes, a high white wig with roses

Sussex Smugglers / C18Th
SUSSEX SMUGGLERS Daniel Cater chained in the Turff House at Old Mill s. John Cobby is kicking him and Benjamin Tapner is cutting him across the eyes and nose while he is saying the Lords Prayer

Great sea serpent seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734, Scoliophis atlanticus. From a description by Hans Egede. Steel engraving by W.H

Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), German zoologist and botanist. Portrait engraved on steel by W.H. Lizars, from Sir William Jardines The Naturalists Library, 1833, Edinburgh

Inside view of the Watch Tower discovered near Ludgate Hill, May 1, 1792. Barbican or part of the old City wall of 1276. Copperplate engraving drawn

South entrance of Dukes Palace, 1790. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1814

18th century Mercer - Costume
A travelling salesman hawks his wares: ribbons, buttons, pins, feathers, braids, cloth & all manner of trinkets for female adornment. Date: 18th century

Grace Lane with fan
Edwardian actress Miss Grace Lane in C18th costume for an unspecified part holds a lace folding fan - this item being an essential part of a ladys toilet during this period. Date: circa 1905

12TH NIGHT / VIOLA C18TH
Act I, Scene V Viola, disguised as a boy, enters the house of Olivia Date: 1793

COUNTRY DANCING C18TH
Two couples perform astar or hands across movement within a country dance at an English country fair. Date: late 18th Century

COUNTRY ESTATE / C18TH
Couples meet, individuals take a brisk walk and groups congregate in the formally designed parkland of a grand country estate. Date: 18th century

BRITAIN / C18TH / RURAL
Country people leaving a village due to enclosures

Aristocratic Dress C18Th
Fontange headdress, petticoats are lavishly & horizontally trimmed with lace & jewels, over-skirts anticipate the polonaise of the late C18th. N.B handscreen & face patches Date: 1700 - 1707

Narcissus Etc C18Th
A posy of NARCISSUS, including a double white variety; ANEMONE; JASMINUM, a variety described as Yellow Indian, tied with a striped ribbon. Date: 18th century

Siamese Twins / C18Th
Siamese twins sharing one set of legs. Date: 18th century

Bavarian C18th Costume

Whitehall C18Th
Built in 1786-8 by Samuel Peyps Cockerall as a residence for the First Lord of the Admiralty Date: 18th century

Spa / Germany / Leuk / C18Th
At the healing waters in Leuk, where people were provided with floating chess boards and writing tables due to the long periods of time spent in the water Date: Eighteenth century

London / Tower / C18Th
18th century perspective of the Tower. Date: Circa 1780

Shutter Telegraph C18Th
An optical telegraph system, using 6 shutters

Pisa Bridge Game / C18Th
PISA : the long-ago defeat of the Saracens is celebrated by two groups of warriors who battle it out on a bridge over the Arno

French Skittles / C18Th
Une partie de quilles : French skittles

Sandford & Merton / C18Th
A humourless, moral tale in which the unpleasant & rich Tommy Merton is contrasted with the virtuous Harry Sandford

C18th Century Revival
Fine feathers in wartime: dress designers attempt to counter the practical move of wearing shorter, fuller skirts by employing impractical styles of previous centuries

French Signwriter C18Th
A French signwriter astride a wooden plank pauses from painting a carved inn sign to accept a glass of red wine from a barmaid who leans precariously from a balcony. Date: 18th century

Malaka, Malaysia C18Th
A view of Malaka from the sea showing sailing ships and other smaller vessels, rows of small houses, a walled area of the town & a building set up on stilts in between

Docks at Haarlem C18Th
View of a busy dock scene on the River Spaarne at Haarlem. Sailors use poles to guide their ship through the Bascule bridge which is opening in the distance

Sainte-Menehould C18Th
A panoramic view of the walled city of Sainte-Menehould in North-Eastern France

Port of Barcelona C18Th
A view of a section of the port of Barcelona including Moorish (North African) & European merchants & their ships

Belvoir Castle C18Th
Belvoir Castle, home of the Dukes of Rutland, as it was prior to the fire of 1816 and the surrounding Leicestershire countryside

View of Gloucester C18Th
A perspective view of the city looking down & across the surrounding countryside. The cathedral, local sailing boats, the river Severn & turnpike road are all depicted

Elegy on a Mad Dog / C18Th
The dog & man at first were friends, But when a pique began, The dog to gain his private ends, Went mad & bit the man

Month of July C18Th
This month is personified as colourful and plentiful. He holds some grapes to indicate prosperity

January C18Th
This month is shown as a man in purple robes burning incense. This month is named after the god Janus and considered sacred and an auspicious birthdate

August C18Th
This month is named after the Roman emperor Augustus, who is shown as a god drinking from a golden dish

September C18Th
This month is shown as a man holding fruit, perhaps to suggest harvest time

February C18Th
This month is shown as a water carrying maiden. The ritual of Romulus occurs in February according to the Latin text

Month of March C18Th
This month is personified as a man in wolf skin

Month of April C18Th
This month is honoured by a wreath of myrtle and burnt incense given as offerings to the goddess Ceres

Month of May C18Th
A man collects roses

Haus Surenbergs C18Th
Moated mansion 27 miles north of Munster. Bought in the 18th century by Carl van Zuydtwyck, a Dutch aristocrat and is still lived in by his descendants

Italian Lakes C18Th
Volcanic lakes Lucrino and Averno, Gulf of Cuma and part of Baia in the Bay of Naples

Coat of Arms C. 18Th
An unidentified coat of arms containing within it small coats of arms with various devices including a crowned eagle, castles, an owl etc all surmounted with a canopy

Cobra Engraving C18Th
The Hooded Serpent. A cobra puffs out his hood to ward off any preditors

C18th Ladies Drinking
Three well-bred ladies in a walled garden partake of a glass or two of wine. One lady rises from her seat holding the other ladies by the hands to bid a fond farwell

Britain / C18Th / Rural
Country people leaving a village due to enclosures

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