1849 Collection

Grand Portico of the Temple of Philae - Nubia, 1842-1849 (tinted lithograph)
985994 Grand Portico of the Temple of Philae - Nubia, 1842-1849 (tinted lithograph) by Roberts

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall interior, 1849
The interior of the then-new Liverpool Philharmonic Concert Hall, at the time of the Liverpool Music Festival, 1849

Dickens / D. Copperfield
David arrives at the home of his aunt, Betsy Trotwood

Queen Victoria's departure from Kingstown Harbour, Dublin, 10 August 1849 Date: 1849

Frederic Chopin / Etude
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his C minor Etude

The Enterprise and Investigator surrounded by ice, Barro
Engraving showing the Enterprise and Investigator surrounded by pack ice in Barrows Straits, September 1849

Edgar Allan Poe (Cole)
EDGAR ALLAN POE American writer

Karl Marx in his Study
KARL MARX German political theorist - working in his study in London in 1849

FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849). Polish composer and pianist. Photographed in 1849

Frederic Chopin / Preludes
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his preludes

John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 A

The fancy fair, Princes Park, Liverpool, August, 1849

AUDUBON: VOLE. Eastern meadow vole, or meadow mouse (Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus, formerly Arvicola pennsylvanica)

Balloon event, Charles Green, Stowmarket
Charles Green ballooning poster, advertising his 413rd ascent, from the Vicarage Grounds, Stowmarket in his Royal Victoria Balloon

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall exterior, 1849
The exterior of the then-new Liverpool Philharmonic Concert Hall, at the time of the Liverpool Music Festival, 1849

General Von Mackensen
GENERAL AUGUST VON MACKENSEN German military commander wearing the famous Deaths Head headgear

HARRODS 1953
A large expensive car approaches the Knightsbridge store, which is now somewhat larger than the original grocers shop of 1849

Chopin [Anon]
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician

James Clarence Mangan Irish Writer

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV Russian physiologist

Ancient Greek Game
Ancient Greece: game of Mora

Blunt / Cygnus & Lyra / Pl32
The constellation of Cygnus - a flying swan - and Lyra - that of an ancient Greek lyre

Madame Recamier
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD Also known as MADAME RECAMIER, influential French social and political hostess

A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). American writer. Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Tales). Spanish edition

Harbour / Belfast Opening
Opening of the New Channel, Belfast Harbour - the start of the procession

The Wolverton Mechanics Institute soiree
The anniversary meeting of the Wolverton Mechanics Institute in the large engine room of Wolverton Station.1, 500 people attended the soiree

George Eliot (Durade)
GEORGE ELIOT nee Mary Ann Cross, later Evans. Writer, painted in 1849 - her most appealing portrait

Whaling Ship / 1849
The Samuel Enderby, a whaling ship depicted departing for the Auckland Islands

India / Sikh War / Multan
British forces capture 2 Sikh standards during hand-to-hand fighting in Mooltan (Multan)

Blunt / Full Moon / Plate 13
The Moon at the full

David Copperfield / Phiz
David Copperfield frontispiece

City of London Union Infirmary, Mile End Road
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clement's Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse

View of Providence R. I. from the south. 1849
View of Providence R.I. from the south. 1849

Blunt / Pisces / Plate 49
The constellation of Pisces, the fish

India / Sikh War / Multan
Bombay European Fusiliers storm the fort at Mooltan (Multan) at the Khoonee Boorj

John Everett Millais - Isabella 1849

Union Workhouse, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
The Union workhouse erected in 1849-50 at Chamber Hills, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, on what is now Fountain Street. The site is now Tameside Hospital

Brighton Belle
Martha Gunn an elderly woman who helps women bathers into the sea in Brighton, Sussex. Original Artwork: Artist - Robert Dighton (1752 - 1814) (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sketch for Le Peintre, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). The artist leans back to view his work, resting his head on a womans shoulder

NY: BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, 1849. View of New York from Brooklyn Heights. Lithograph, 1849, by Nathaniel Currier

1849 The antidiluvian world by reynolds
A rare British broadsheet with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

Panning for gold, California
Reenactor panning for gold on the American River, where the Gold Rush started, Coloma, California. Digital photograph

Winson Green Prison, Birmingham
The castle-like entrance to Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, built in 1849 as a local gaol for adult male offenders

Blunt / Ophiucus / Plate 36
The constellation of Ophiucus - the figure is that of a man wrestling with a serpent

Frederic Chopin / Deathbed
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician on his deathbed

Frederic Chopin / Krzesz
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician the last notes

IRVING: SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1820. Illustration of Ichabod Crane from Washington Irving s
IRVING: SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1820. Illustration of Ichabod Crane from Washington Irvings The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820. Etching by Felix O.C. Darley, 1849

MAP: UNITED STATES, 1849. A General Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Mexican Possessions: engraved map published, 1849, by Samuel A. Mitchell at Philadelphia

Miners Dancing Together
A miners ball in California Date: 1849

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1849
The Italianate exterior of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London). The foundation stone was laid in 1849 by Prince Albert

Faraday on magnetism and gravity, 1849
Faraday on magnetism and gravity. Page from the notebooks of British physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867), showing notes and a diagram of an apparatus for investigating magnetism and gravity

Ross Arctic search expedition, 1848-9 C016 / 4490
Ross Arctic search expedition. 19th-century artwork of the ships HMS Enterprise and HMS Investigator caught in pack ice in Baffin Bay off Devils Point in the Arctic

HINDU GODDESS: KALI. The Hindu goddess Kali, shown holding a bloody sword and the head of a giant while she tramples her consort, Shiva. Wood engraving, American, 1849

Prospectors panning for gold in the California Gold Rush. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

The Illuminations in Sackville Street, Dublin
The illuminations in Sackville Street, Dublin with an electric light shining on the Nelson Column during the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in 1849

Passenger Canal Boats at Paddington Basin, London, 1849
Engraving showing some of the canal boats, offering rides on the Grand Union Canal, at Paddington Basin, London, 1849

Village of Moveen during the 1840 s
A landscape view of the village of Moveen during the forced evictions of the 1840 s

Passengers on the deck of an Emigrant Ship, 1849
Engraving showing emigrants on the deck of their ship, at sea, 1849. A group of children are being taught their lessons by a school master whilst a small crowd gathers around the ships galley

Edmund Pendleton Gaines
EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES American military commander who served in the 1812 war, the Seminole war, the Mexican war, the Black Hawk war etc

Mme Recamier / Cig Card
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD French society beauty and wit

Charlotte Bronte / Shirley
Shirley Keeldare sits pensively at the window

Crowned Pidgeon
CROWNED PIDGEON

Blunt / Planet / Parallax
A diagram showing the parallax of the planets

Monoceros Etc Constell
The constellation of Monoceros - a unicorn - and Canis Minor - a small dog

Blunt / Jupiter & Moons / 10
A view of Jupiter showing its moons and satellites

Cartoon, Disraeli Measuring the British Lion
Cartoon, The State of the Nation, Disraeli Measuring the British Lion

Queen Victoria and her family, Windsor
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children in the grounds of Windsor Castle. 1849

Garibaldi at Rome, 1849 (engraving)
1619118 Garibaldi at Rome, 1849 (engraving) by Thomas, George Housman (1824-68); Private Collection; (add.info.: Garibaldi at Rome, 1849. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 1 July 1854)

Maria Edgeworth / Library
MARIA EDGEWORTH The novelist writing in her library at her home in Edgeworthstown, near Dublin

City of London Workhouse, Bow Road, East London
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road in East London, the City of London Union Workhouse opened in 1849

City of London Infirmary, Bow Road, East London
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clement's Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse

Giants Ring, Ballylesson, Co. Down (1849). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1849

David & the Micawbers
A young David Copperfield is presented by Mr Micawber to Mrs Micawber who clutches a baby Date: First published: 1849-50

Lady Blessingtons Tomb
The pyramid-shaped tomb of Marguerite, countess of Blessington, Irish writer, photographed by her lover, the count d Orsay. Date: 1849

Bay of San Francisco, Upper California
San Francisco was the scene of a gold rush in 1849, men made their way to California from all over the world

HARRY KELLAR 1849 - 1922
American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 1800s and early 1900s - the predecessor of Harry Houdini and successor to Robert Heller

Micawber & Copperfield
Young David Copperfield with swaggering Mr. Micawber, twirling his walking stick!

Houdin Levitation
Houdins son, supported only by one elbow, reclines in space

William Ernest Henley / Vf
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY English man of letters, editor of the Magazine of Art and other journals

Churchill / Randolph / Vf 80
LORD RANDOLPH SPENCER CHURCHILL MP speaking in Parliament while Wolff, Balfour and Gorst listen (or fall asleep, more like)

Copperfield / Mr Micawber
The inimitable Mr Micawber

Copperfield / Micawber
The inimitable Mr Micawber standing jauntily in a street with Georgian houses behind him

Mania / Hudson Blamed
Railway financier George Hudson, formerly known as the Railway King, is depicted as The Railway Clown and blamed by those who invested in his stocks

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"1849: A Year of Artistic and Intellectual Brilliance" In the year 1849, the world witnessed a remarkable convergence of artistic and intellectual brilliance. Frederic Chopin, renowned Polish composer and pianist, mesmerized audiences with his exquisite Etudes and Preludes. His music transcended boundaries, captivating hearts across continents. Meanwhile, Edgar Allan Poe's haunting tales continued to captivate readers' imaginations. Cole's vivid illustrations brought Poe's macabre stories to life, leaving an indelible mark on literature. Amidst this creative fervor, The Enterprise and Investigator found themselves trapped in icy waters during their daring exploration. Barro's depiction immortalized this treacherous journey as a testament to human resilience in the face of adversity. Karl Marx immersed himself in his study during this transformative year. His groundbreaking ideas would reshape political thought for generations to come. John William Waterhouse masterfully captured moments in time through his brushstrokes. On April 6th, 1849, he painted a scene that evoked nostalgia and longing - a reflection of the era's sentimentality. Across the Atlantic Ocean at Princes Park in Liverpool, August saw an extravagant fancy fair that delighted attendees with its grandeur and opulence. It was a celebration of artistry and craftsmanship that showcased society's growing fascination with beauty. Even Harrods made its mark in history by opening its doors for business in 1953 – becoming synonymous with luxury shopping experiences worldwide. Nature too had its own story to tell; Audubon documented the Eastern meadow vole or meadow mouse through meticulous observation – shedding light on the intricate wonders of wildlife flourishing amidst changing landscapes. Lastly but not leastly Charles Green took flight into uncharted skies during a balloon event held at Stowmarket.