Dessert plate depicting the battlefield of Vitoria, Spain, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service...
Carlotta Grisi and Jules Perrot in La Polka by Cesare Pugni , Between 1844 and 1847. Private Collection.
Dessert plate depicting the battlefield of Salamanca, Spain, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner...
Dessert plate depicting the Battlefield of Talavera, Spain, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service...
Dessert plate depicting the crossing of the Mondego, Portugal, 1810 . Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner...
Dessert plate depicting the battlefield of Vitoria, Spain, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service...
Dessert plate depicting the Lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1810s. This series of forts was built in secret in 1809-1810 to defend Lisbon. Item in...
Dessert plate depicting the Lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1810s. This series of forts was built in secret in 1809-1810 to defend Lisbon. Item in...
Dessert plate depicting the battlefield of Vimeiro, Portugal, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner...
Dessert plate depicting the battlefield of Roleia , Portugal, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner...
Dessert plate depicting the British headquarters at Vimeiro, Portugal, 1808 . Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a...
Dessert plate depicting Toulouse, France, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service which was given...
Dessert plate depicting the Battle of Bussaco, Portugal, 1810 . Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service...
Dessert plate depicting the Battlefield of Bussaco, Portugal, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner...
Dessert plate depicting the Battlefield of Badajoz, Spain, 1810s. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service...
Portrait of the French chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault , illustration by L Massard, from Know Yourself, Notions of physiology to youth...
Tin can containing foodstuff, featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria , dating from the Boer War . Nicholas Appert, a French chef, was the first to...
Engraving by William Raddon, c 1831, after an original painting by Samuel Lane, c 1810. Thomas Telford , Scottish engineer, was responsible for some...
Photograph of Sir Hugh Allen , relaxing with his family on board his yacht on Lake Memphremagog in Belmere, Canada, taken by William McFarlane Notman...
Engraving by James Thomson, from a drawing by Henry Corbould, after an original bust by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey. John Rennie was a civil engineer...
Engraving by R Cooper of Pierre-Charles-François Dupin . While still an undergraduate he discovered 'Dupin's cyclides'. On graduation in 1803 he...
Engraving by William Holl after a portrait by Samuel Lane, c 1810. Thomas Telford was responsible for some of the finest feats of civil engineering...
Photograph of the servants of the household of Sir Hugh Allen , posed on the lawn of Allen's villa by Lake Memphremagog in Belmere, Canada, taken by...
The romantic landscape of the Penllergare estate was created in the 1830s-1840s by John Dillwyn Llewelyn . As well as landscape design and...
Photograph of Sir Hugh Allen with his family, relaxing on the lawn of their villa in Belmere, Canada, taken by William McFarlane Notman . This...
Portrait of Telford who was responsible for some of the finest feats of civil engineering in the early 19th century. His Caledonian Canal was...
Engraving by J Pass of William Herschel�s 40-foot telescope in Slough, Berkshire, assembled in 1787 and dismantled in 1839. The massive reflecting...
The romantic landscape of the Penllergare estate was created in the 1830s-1840s by John Dillwyn Llewelyn . Llewelyn had an orchid house on the estate...
Plate taken from the Illustrated London News . The Crystal Palace was built to house the 'Great Exhibition of the Works of the Industry of all...
Plate from the Illustrated London News . 'Section of the Thames Embankment, showing The Subway, The Low level sewer, The Metropolitan Railway, and...
Carte-de-visite by Mayall of Queen Victoria . John Jabez Edwin Mayall was an American photographer who travelled to England, first managing the...
Engraving by R Cooper of Pierre-Charles-Francois Dupin . While still an undergraduate he discovered 'Dupin's cyclides'. On graduation in 1803 he...
Carte de visite portrait by J E Mayall of Queen Victoria . John Jabez Edwin Mayall was an American photographer who travelled to England, first...
Battle of Busaco, Portugal, 27th September 1810 . British and Portuguese troops commanded by Wellington repulsed the French under Massena. From The...
Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen , Count of Doggersbank, c. 1810. Found in the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Artist : Anonymous.
German Composer Robert Schumann, by Carl Jaeger. Around 1890. [Robert Schumann, dt. Komponist, * 1810, 1856; wirkte in Leipzig, Dresden, Duesseldorf;...
Kamehameha I , also known as Kamehameha the Great, conquered the Hawaiian Islands formally establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810. The statue...
Dollars of Buenos Aires. Caricature published in London, 1819. Buenos Aires, Museo Histórico Nacional Del Cabildo De La Ciudad De Buenos Aires Y De...
Portrait of Count Michael Johann von der Borch . Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
John Leslie, Scottish natural philosopher and physicist, 19th century. Leslie invented a number of scientific instruments and in 1810 created...
John Leslie, Scottish natural philosopher and physicist, lecturing, 19th century. Leslie was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh in 1805...
Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher . Original Artwork: Engraving by F C Grogen and T W Hailand.
Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher . Original Artwork: Engraved by T Vendramini, after the drawing by P E Stroehling, historical...
Portrait of Sir Colin Campbell . Baron Clyde, British army officer, served in Peninsular War, 1810-13, War of 1812, the West Indies, 1819-26, China,...
Sir Walter Scott . 1st Baronet Scott. Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer. Best known for his historical novels including 'Rob Roy'...
Sir Walter Scott . 1st Baronet Scott. Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer. Best known for his historical novels including 'Rob Roy'...
John Langdon . American Revolutionary leader, member, Continental Congress, 1775-76, organized Stark's expedition against Burgoyne president of New...
John Randolph, of Roanoke . American politician. Member, US House of Representatives 1779-1813, 1815-17, 1819-25, 1827-29, member, US Senate 1825-27,...
Hannah Hoes Van Buren , wife of American president Martin Van Buren. She died of tuberculosis eighteen years before her husband's inauguration.
Delhi with an encircling wall seen from the surrounding countryside. In the foreground an elephant with howdah and passengers. Original Artwork:...
German composers Robert Alexander Schumann and wife Clara Schumann who is playing the piano. Original Artwork: An engraving from a daguerreotype .
Greek vases , women's necklaces , bracelets , and earrings ; sandals , shoes , pallium , rings and bust of Greek queen . Thessalian hat . Handcolored...
Six famous German realist authors. Friedrich Hebbel 18 March 1813 - 13 December 1863; 19 July 1819 - 15 Jult 1890; Gustav Freytag 13 July 1816 - 30...
