Corsican Collection

Calvi Beach, Corsica
Sumptuous and colourful beach scene advertising the Corsican resort of Calvi, showing a 1920s lady in her bathing suit against beach and town

Blucher and Napoleon
Blucher the Brave extracting the Groan of Abdication from the Corsican Bloodhound

Corsica, A view of Vivario
A view of Vivario in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Date: circa 1903

Young Napoleon has his fortune told by a gipsy
The young Napoleon, later Emperor of France, has his fortune told by a gipsy in Corsica

May Collection, Saxonia, Mauretania, Corsican silk postcards
THE MAY COLLECTION: Five silk postcards, Saxonia, Mauretania and Corsican

Bastia, Corsica, France - The New Town
Panoramic view of Bastia, Corsica, France - The New Town viewed from the sea. Date: circa 1910s

Place du March (Market Square), Bastia, France
View down on the Place du Marche (Market Square), Bastia, Corsica, France - dominated by Eglise St-Jean Baptiste. Date: circa 1910s

Ocean liners, collection of five silk postcards
THE MAY COLLECTION: Five silk postcards, featuring the Saxonia, Mauretania and Corsican

RMS Corsican and RMS Olympic, silk postcards Date: early 20th century

SAMPIERO CORSO Corsican soldier Date: 1498 - 1567

Crocus minimus (Corsican crocus, Crocus minimus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after W. Herbert from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Corsican mouflon, Ovis aries musimon (Corsican musmon, Ovis orientalis). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library

Corsican pine tree, Pinus nigra subsp. laricio. Pin Laricio. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Law Courts and Fleet Street, London, on a busy day. Date: circa 1900

Man from Corsica, smoking a long pipe Date: circa 1820

Young Napoleon has his fortune told by a gipsy
The young Napoleon, later Emperor of France, has his fortune told by a gipsy in Corsica. Date: 1769 - 1821

The Corsican Brothers by Dion Boucicault
Dion Boucicaults The Corsican Brothers, based on the novel by Dumas: Act II - The Masked Ball scene Date: 1880

Ajaccio, Corsica, France, The Home of Napoleon - The Salon (Living Room). Date: circa 1910s

Ajaccio, Corsica, France, The Home of Napoleon - The Bedroom Date: circa 1910s

Ajaccio, Corsica, France, The Home of Napoleon - The Boudoir Date: circa 1905

Ajaccio, Corsica, France - Exterior of the Home of Napoleon. Date: circa 1903

Antoine Bellacoscia - The King of the Corsican Bandits
Antoine Bellacoscia (1827 - 1907) - The King of the Corsican Bandits. Date: circa 1905

Cartoon, Henry Irving and Charles Kean
Cartoon, The Corsican Brothers. Showing Henry Irving kneeling in front of the ghost of Charles Kean (1811-1868), in whose footsteps he was following by performing in the play

Pascal Paoli (Etching)
PASCAL PAOLI Corsican patriot Date: 1725 - 1807

Carlo Bonaparte
CARLO BONAPARTE Corsican lawyer, father of Napoleon I Date: 1746 - 1785

J. Boswell / London Mag
JAMES BOSWELL Scottish lawyer and biographer of Samuel Johnson, pictured here in the dress of a Corsican chief. Date: 1740 - 1795

Cartoon, British Tars, towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; the Broadbottom Leviathan trying to swamp Billys old Boat, & the little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Tiddy Doll the great French Gingerbread Baker, drawing out a new Batch of Kings, his Man, Hopping Talley [Talleyrand], mixing up the Dough, by James Gillray

Pascal Paoli
PASCAL PAOLI Corsican soldier and statesman Date: 1725 - 1807

French (Corsican) Opera star - Agnes Borgo, Soprano
Corsican soprano Agnes Borgo (1879 - 1958) Date: circa 1910

Corsica - Corsican woman with bucket on her head
Corsica - Corsican woman carrying a hard timber wooden bucket on her head, her other hand holding a jar (possibly containing oil?). Date: 1920s

Sitta whiteheadi, corsican nuthatch
Corsican nuthatch egg specimens

Mathieu Buttafuoco
MATHIEU, comte de BUTTAFUOCO Corsican soldier and statesman, who opposed the Revolution, Date: 1730 - 1806

Anti-bandit campaign in Corsica
Armoured cars and armed guards protect the police and army officers as they scour the countryside around Calcatoggio, during the anti-bandit campaign in Corsica. 1932

Guiseppe Fieschi
The Corsican criminal, Guiseppe Fieschi, would-be assassin of King Louis Philippe of France. Date: 1835

Various Insects
Butterflies and other insects, also a man-made beehive. Date: circa 1880

Adaccio, Corsica
View of Adaccio, Corsica

The Bone of Contention or the English Bull dog and the Corsican Monkey

Fox and Napoleon
CHARLES JAMES FOX in his last year rejects Bonapartes friendly overtures, calling him a little Corsican reptile whereas formerly they had been friendly

Napoleon the Gardener
Napoleon, the little Corsican gardener, plants what he hopes will be a new dynasty

Bulldog and Bloodhound
AN ENGLISH BULL-DOG and a CORSICAN BLOODHOUND John Bull savages his enemy

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