Victorians Collection

Victorian Silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes showing various Victorian pastimes and games including archery, croquet, skating and chess

Lily Langtry by G. F. Watts
Lillie Langtry (1852 - 1929), English actress, painted by the artist George Frederick Watts. Date: 1938

The End of the Henley Regatta, 1893
Engraving showing the melee of punts taking place at the end of the Henley Regatta, on the River Thames, 1893. Henley Regatta was part of the British social scene

Roasting of the baron of beef for the Christmastide Festival, held over a weekend in the first week in December each year. Date: 1900

Fireplace in the kitchen in Windsor Castle. Date: 1894

Victorian taking a walk in St James's Park, London, in the summer months. Date: August 1844

Bathing at Broadstairs 1857
Women taking a dip in the sea at Broadstairs, this was a cheaper destination to get to by train from London. Date: 1857

Broadstairs Jetty 1857
Victorains walking alone the jetty, on a summers day. Date: 1857

Engraving by Sir John Gilbert, featured in The Illustrated London News in 1932 to show how the painter Richard Sickert used Gilberts engravings as the basis for a series of paintings he called

British picture gallery, Paris International Exhibition
The British Picture Gallery in the Paris International Exhibition. Date: 1867

The new rooms in the National Gallery
Visitors admiring the new rooms in the National Gallery. Date: 1876

Exhibition of Art and Industry at Stockholm
View of the exhibition of Art & Industry at Stockholm, with a large and magnificent fountain to the fore. Date: 1866

Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition showing the south and north transept. Date: 1852

Great Exhibition - East Nave viewed from the south
The Great Exhibition - east nave viewed from the south. Date: 1851

Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. The Zollverein department, looking west. Date: 1851

Great Exhibition - The Mourners by John Graham
Visitors to the Great Exhibition pause to admire The Mourners sculpture by John Graham. Date: 1851

A family, three adults and a little girl, sitting in a rustic, trellis garden room outside. They re drinking wine so are likely to be French! Date: 1890s

Three women, probably from the same family, all in black, possibly in mourning. Date: c.1895

Conversazione of educational exhibition, St. Martins Hall
Prince Albert stopping by the Norway stand at the Educational Exhibition, held at St. Martins Hall in July 1854. 1854

The Mirage of Life - Theodore Hook playing the piano
Illustration of writer and wit, Theodore Hook, playing the piano to an admiring audience. From the Mirage of Life with illustration by John Tenniel. 1867

Cartoon, A hint for the seaside, no bathing machine required (just a wide crinoline). 1857

Hastings - the rocks 1857
Victorians clambering among the rocks. Date: 1857

Hastings - pleasure boat 1857
Men carrying wealthy people in their best attire onto a pleasure-boat. Date: 1857

The morning lounge at Biarritz
Scene on the beach at Biarritz in 1866, about a decade after the resort on the SW French coast was made fashionable by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie

The afternoon promenade at Biarritz on the SW coast of France, made into a fashionable resort by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie who built the Villa Eugenie here. Date: 1866

The Season in Cairo - at the Ghezereh Palace
The grounds of the Gezereh Palace Hotel, one of the most fashionable rendezvous in Cairo during the winter season when smart society flocked there

A Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice, 1898
A greeting on the water - a chap raises his boater and takes the hand of a lady passing in a gondola on the Grand Canal in Venice. Date: 1898

Part of Scarborough, drawn by John Leech 1857
Victorian mainly women and children having a ride on carriage around the beach. 1857

Christmas at Windsor Castle 1856
Bringing in the massive and varied pile of game from the forest for the Royals Christmas banquet. 1856

Winter Garden Exhibition, Dublin 1865
Winter Garden or Crystal Palace as it was known in Dublin, showing the exterior of the permanent building constructed of iron and glass. Date: 1865

Christmas at Windsor Castle, roasting beef 1856
Roasting the Royal baron of beef for the Christmas banquet, overseen by the careful superintendence of the roasting cooks, who coax the baron, with sufficient basting

Ice skating at St. Jamess Park, London 1844
Victorian man and women enjoying skating on St. Jamess Park lake. 1844

Butchers over Christmas period 1868
Exhibiting hanging beef for the Christmas. 1868

Grocers shop over Christmas period 1868
A London shop before Christmas day, the grocers preparations are all on the grand scale; Victorians looking through the window at the currants, raisins and sultanas heaped in mountainous slopes. 1868

John Dixon, civil engineer
John Dixon (1835-91), civil engineer. Responsible for building first railways in China, for constructing railways in the Rio Tinto mines and for successfully bringing Cleopatras Needle to Britain

Pedespeed 1870
19th century recreation early roller skates, fourteen or fifteen inches in diameter wheels attached below the knees with a foot piece. Date: 1870

Pleasure velocipede 1869
New World, pleasure, recreation or exercise, this newly invented contraption was used by young and old in public or private grounds

Granvale Church - collecting evergreen for Christmas 1869
Front cover of Christmas Supplement to The Illustrated London News, showing Victorian men, women and children receiving evergreen from a trader outside to decorate the church for Christmas. Date: 1869

Gigantic Christmas tree at Crystal Palace 1854
The gigantic Christmas tree at Crystal Palace, Sydenham which occupied the central transept. The general design was carried out by Mr Hurwitz, loaded with a variety of ornaments and nicknacks

Christmas Dinner, How it was stolen & what became of it?
Storyboard showing rich Victorians entertaining guests for Christmas dinner, while the cooks out of the kitchen the turkeys been swiftly stolen out of the window

Shadow Dance 1861
Christmas season, Victorian children being amused by the shadow theatre. Magic lanterns are at hand and many over apparatus profuse of grotesque figures that appear

Beach at Brighton 1859
Busy beach scene at Brighton. Date: 1859

Summer Afternoon in Kew Gardens 1870
Large number of Victorian visitors in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In the background of this image one can see the pagoda (centre) and the Great Palm House (right). Date: 1870

Hastings in October 1857
Victorians having an enjoyable day at Hastings. Date: 1857

New public pillar post box 1857
New freestanding public post box of 1857, set up in the streets of Metropolis, designed by A. Copper, C.E. of Great George Street and Mr. W. J Wills superintended the ornamentation. Date: 1857

Skating 1865
Wintery scene, with adults skating on a frozen lake. Date: 1865

Eight hours at the beach by John Leech 1875
Victorian men, women and children enjoying a day at the beach. Date: 1875

Sea side 1856
Victorian men, women and children enjoying a summers day at the beach. Date: 1856

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