Chapman Gallery

Sailing Barge Match on the Thames, July 1864

Engraving of a sailing barge match on the Thames, from the Illustrated London News, 23rd July 1864. This match was hosted by the Prince of Wales Yacht Club over a course from Erith to the Chapman Light and back, with 40 topsail and stumped-rigged barges taking part. Topsail barge, Matilda won first prize of an 18 cup for her owner and 10 10s for her cre."

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Guy, Earl of Warwick, from a basso-relievio in Warwick Lane

Guy, Earl of Warwick, from a basso-relievio in Warwick Lane. Crusader hero killed the Danish champion, the giant Colbrand, for Athelstan of England. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries from his J.T. Smith's Antiquities of London and its Environs, J. Sewell, R. Folder, J. Simco, London, 1791

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Chimpanzee kidnapping an Angolan girl

Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, carrying off an Angolan girl, as a man with bow and arrow tries to save her. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Chapman after an illustration by Johann Jakob Ihle from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, London, 1795. Date:

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