1872 Collection

Grigori Rasputin in 1912
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Russian mystic and court favourite in 1912

The wild Hunt of Odin, 1872. Creator: Arbo, Peter Nicolai (1831-1892)
The wild Hunt of Odin, 1872. Found in the Collection of Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo

CITY OF LONDON KEY, 1872. The key of Temple Bar City Gate at Fleet Street, the westernmost end of the City of London. Wood engraving, English, 1872

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

Claude Monet (1840 1926). Impression, Sunrise (Impression
Claude Monet (1840 1926). Founder of French impressionist painting. Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). 1872. Oil on canvas. Museum of Marmottan Monet. Paris. France

GURDJIEFF (1872-1949)
Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Russian spiritual leader

Map of Wessex
A map of the Wessex of the novels

Colour / Walrus / Carpenter
The Walrus and the Carpenter

Fingerprint types, 17th century
Fingerprint types. 19th-century artwork showing three of the fingerprint types (arch, loop and whorl) identified by British scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911), who wrote on the subject from 1888

Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams Composer

A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a Lawn
Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a typically convoluted method of weeding a garden lawn. A man is hosted by ropes supported by a teepee configuration of poles worked by

GURDJIEFF
Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Russian spiritual leader

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Musician

Vaughan Williams Photo
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS musical composer

Rasputin Caricature
GRIGORI RASPUTIN caricatured as the sinister leader of Russias ruling house, looming over the puppet-like figures of Nicolas II and Alexandra

Scriabin / Hull 1914
ALEKSANDR SCRIABIN Aka Skryabin Russian composer

Grigori Rasputin in 1908
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Russian mystic and court favourite in 1908

Jabberwock Colour
" The jabberwock, with eye of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood"

Alice and Humpty Dumpty
" If he smiled much more the ends of his mouth might meet behind, " she thought

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Photograph of Captain Roald Engelbreth Gravning Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, in his cold weather clothing and skis, Antarctica, 1912

BLACK SENATORS, 1872. The First Colored Senators and Representatives in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States. Lithograph, 1872, by Currier & Ives

Scotland vs. England Football Match, 1872
Illustrations from the Scotland vs. England Friendly of 30th November 1872, played at West of Scotland Cricket Club Ground, Partick, near Glasgow

The West London Jewish Synagogue, 1872
Engraving showing the interior of the West London Jewish Synagogue in Upper Berkeley Street, near Edgware Road, London, 1872

Folklore / Wild Hunt
Asgaardsreiden, Norwegian myth of the Wild Hunt

EMILY DAVISON Died after throwing herself in front of the King's horse at the Derby in June 1913, She is wearing a prisoner's brooch & another medal. 1872 - 1913

DORE: LONDON: 1872. Newgate - Exercise Yard. Wood engraving after Gustave Dore from London: A Pilgrimage, 1872

A Game of Bowls, England, c. 1872
Engraving showing a close game of bowls on a bowling lawn somewhere in England, c.1872. Four players appear to be vigorously contesting the result

Wedding Feast by William Heath Robinson
Finely detailed colour illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a wedding feast amid a rural setting. Robinson would follow this image with two more in subsequent years

Carthusian monks process to matins at 2 am
Carthusian monks in cowls and habits process to matins at 2 am

Nikolai Grundtvig
NIKOLAI Fs GRUNDTVIG Danish theologian and poet with his autograph Date: 1783 - 1872

Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich (1872-1916). Siberian monk, Tsar Nicholas IIs councillor. Portrait of Rasputin. Photography. RUSSIA

Bertrand Russell
BERTRAND RUSSELL, 3rd Earl Russell - British philospher and author, smoking a pipe whilst sitting at his desk in the study of his home, Plas Pendryn, Wales. Date: 1872 - 1970

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Photographic portrait of Roald Engelbreth Gravning Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage and reach the South Pole

GURDJIEFF (1872-1949)
Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Russian spiritual leader (in 1935)

Between Berlin and Rome - Otto von Bismarck and Pope Leo XIII play a straegic game of chess. Cartoon from Kladderadatsch, 1875

Birds eye view of the city of Charleston South Carolina 1872. Print showing a bird s-eye view of Charleston, South Carolina, at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers

Archbishop Manning on Clerkenwell Green, London, 1872
Engraving showing Archbishop Manning administering the pledge, before a large audience on Clerkenwell Green, London, 1872

Rasputin in Hospital
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Russian priest and intriguer in hospital after Khina Gussevas attempt on his life

Ranjitsinhji / Spy / V. Fair
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Rajput nobleman and English cricketer who played for Sussex

SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904). English journalist and explorer. Photographed in full tropical kit, probably on his triumphant return to England in 1872 after finding David Livingstone

Bertrand Russell
BERTRAND RUSSELL, 3rd Earl Russell - British philospher and author, lying down smoking a pipe during one of his hikes into the Welsh countryside. Date: 1872 - 1970

Bertrand Russell / C 1924
BERTRAND RUSSELL 3rd EARL RUSSELL English mathematician and philosopher

John Cowper Powys
JOHN COWPER POWYS English Author of novels such as Owen Glendower (1940), poetry, philosophical and critical works

Alice / Walrus & Carpenter
Walrus & Carpenter address the oysters

Alice: lion and Unicorn
LION AND UNICORN Alice with the Lion and the Unicorn - and a plum cake

Tenniel / Alice & Glass / Bw
Alice looking through the looking glass 1 of 2 : this side

Law / Police / Britain
Duty and Pleasure A policeman on duty on a snowy night in a fashionable London square, while some of the residents set off for an evening of leisure

Exotic dancer by Rene Bull
A stylised illustration by Rene Bull (1872-1942) showing a scantily clad exotic dancer in a beautiful garden hanging with fruits

Kentucky Railroad Shares
Kentucky and Great Eastern Railway Company - thousand collar share certificate

Boat Race Hammersmith
The boat race, as viewed from Hammersmith Bridge

Mazzini / Perrin
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI Italian patriot

John King / Explorer
JOHN KING Explorer; part of the Burke and Wills expedition to Australia

Emily Davison
The Late Miss E.W Davison Postcard published in commemoration of EMILY DAVISON showing her in academic garb

Over London by Rail From Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold London: A Pilgrimage London 1872. Back view of typical 19th century London artisan terrace houses with washhouses

Christopher Columbus at La Rabida, 1872. By F. Adam
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Genoese navigator. Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida, 1872. Copy by F. Adam of the homonimous painting by Eduardo Cano de la Pena. Maritime Museum. Barcelona

Sir Francis Crossley, businessman, philanthropist and MP
Sir Francis Crossley (1817-1872), 1st Baronet of Halifax, British carpet manufacturer, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician. Date: 1860s

CARL SCHURZ: CARPETBAGGER. Schurz, an American army officer, politician, and reformer, vilified as a carpetbagger in an 1872 cartoon by Thomas Nast

DODGSON: LOOKING GLASS. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room

DODGSON: LOOKING GLASS. Alice found the glass was beginning to melt away. After the design by Sir John Tenniel for the first edition, 1872, of Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking Glass

BANK OF ENGLAND, 1872. Entrance to the gold bullion vaults at the Bank of England in London. Engraving, English, 1872

Bramley Workhouse, Armley, Leeds
The porter stands in front of the Bramley Union Workhouse on Green Hill Road, Armley near Leeds. The building, opened in 1872, was designed by CS and AJ Nelson. C.1910s

SISLEY: LOUVECIENNES, 1872. La route du coeur volant a Louveciennes en hiver. Canvas, 1872, by Alfred Sisley

CURRIER & IVES WINTER SCENE. Frozen Up. Lithograph, 1872, by Currier & Ives

Sugar beet
Ad for Lanes Improved Imperial Sugar Beet, B.K. Bliss & Sons, New York, 1872. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Birkenhead / Fe Smith / 1919
FREDERICK EDWIN SMITH 1st EARL of BIRKENHEAD Lawyer and statesman, depicted with a copy of Samuel Smiless Self Help Date: 1872 - 1930

ROBERT i YARZABAL, Bartomeu (1842-1902). Catalan physician and politician. MESTRES I BORRELL, F鬩 x (1872-1933). Painting. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Gallery of Famous Catalans

CARROLL: LOOKING GLASS. Alice at the Looking-Glass. Illustration by John Tenniel from the first edition of Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking Glass, 1872

Mary Celeste 1872
The ship as it was encountered by the Dei Gratia

Leeds Rail Excursion
Flyer issued by the Midland Railway announcing a Cheap Excursion Train from Sheffield to Leeds for the Leeds Horticultural Show Date: 1872

On board the Indus emigrant ship
The cover of The Graphic, 29 June 1872, including five illustrations of life on board the Indus emigrant ship, one of the London Line of Queensland Packets, which set sail from Gravesend

Salmon-pink hyacinth hybrid, Hyacinthus Excelsior.. Handcolored botanical drawn and lithographed by W.G. Smith from H.H. Dombrains Floral Magazine 1872. Worthington G

String quartet, 1872
Mr.L.Ries, Madame Norman-Neruda, Herr Straus and Signore Piatti performing at one of the Monday popular concerts at St Jamess Hall. Date: 1872

NEW YORK: SYNAGOGUE, 1872. The Jewish synagogue on the corner of 57th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, New York. Wood engraving, American, 1872

MONET: REGATTAS, C1872. Regates a Argenteuil. Oil on canvas, Claude Monet, c1872

CARROLL: LOOKING GLASS. Alices kitten, Dinah. Wood engraving after Sir John Tenniel for the first edition of Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking Glass, 1872

BELFAST: RIOT, 1872. Orangemen (Irish Protestants) attacking a Catholic procession in Belfast, Ulster, August 1872. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

COUNTRY STORE, 1872. Interior of a country store. A general store in North Carolina during Reconstruction. Wood engraving, American, 1872

CANADA: MAP, 1872. Map of the boundary between British and American territory on the Pacific coast, settled by the decision of the Emperor of Germany by arbitration in 1872

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Houndsditch. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

RAILROAD SNOW SCENE, 1872. American Railroad Scene-Snow Bound. Lithograph, 1872, by Currier & Ives

Entrance to Ashford Residential School, Surrey
Located on Woodthorpe Road, at Ashford, near Staines, Surrey, and opened in 1872 as the West London District School, it provided accommodation away from the workhouse for pauper children from

Princesses of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Marie-Louise and Princess Helena Victoria (Thora) of Schleswig-Holstein, the daughters of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

The Latest Spelling Test by William Heath Robinson
A desperate effort to instil good luck into a five-franc plaque before returning to the Casino. Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

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"1872: A Journey through Time and Artistic Marvels" Step into the realm of imagination as we embark on a wild hunt alongside Odin himself in Peter Nicolai Arbo's masterpiece, "The Wild Hunt of Odin, 1872. " Feel the thrill and awe as mythical creatures gallop across the canvas, bringing Norse mythology to life. In contrast to this fantastical scene, William Heath Robinson presents us with his ingenious invention - "The Kinecar. " This whimsical contraption showcases Robinson's unique blend of creativity and humor, reminding us that even in 1872, innovation knew no bounds. Shifting our gaze towards Claude Monet's iconic painting "Impression, Sunrise, " we witness the birth of Impressionism. The vibrant colors dance upon the canvas like brushstrokes from a walrus wielding a painter's palette. Monet captures not just an image but an entire movement that would forever change the art world. Delving deeper into history, we explore fingerprint types from the 17th century. These intricate patterns reveal individuality and remind us that each person leaves their mark on society in their own distinctive way – much like a carpenter meticulously crafting a masterpiece. As we stroll through gardens guided by experts' wisdom on extracting weeds from lawns, we encounter GURDJIEFF – a mystic philosopher who sought to awaken humanity's potential for self-transformation. His teachings inspire introspection and growth amidst nature's beauty. Navigating further through time brings us to Wessex on an enchanting map. Thomas Hardy’s literary landscapes come alive as we traverse rolling hills and picturesque villages – immersing ourselves in tales woven with love and tragedy. Our journey takes an unexpected turn when Grigori Rasputin emerges before our eyes in 1912. Controversial yet captivating, this enigmatic figure holds sway over Russian politics while simultaneously being subject to caricatures depicting him as both a savior and a villain.