Barry Collection (#18)

COMTESSE DU BARRY (c1746-1793). Mistress of King Louis XV of France. Du Barry in male hunting costume. Line engraving

JOHN BARRY (1745-1803). American (Irish-born) naval officer. Steel engraving, 19th century, after Gilbert Stuart

Abraham Lincoln from a portrait taken from life by Charles A. Barry, Springfield, Illinois, June 1860. Print showing Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Date c1860

17th New York Battery Artillery Depot, Camp Barry, near Washington, D.C. Soldiers with horses and cannons. Date photographed 1863 May, printed later

George Felix & Lydia Barry in The vaudeville craze George Fe
George Felix & Lydia Barry in The vaudeville craze. Date c1899

Lydia Barry. Date c1899

Miss Octavia Barry
An almost full-length portrait of Miss Octavia Barry, a popular singer, in a colourful costume, with a feather fan in her hand. Date: early 20th century

Tower Bridge Open
The famous Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge, London, was designed by Horace Jones, who died in 1887, before it was completed. Sir John Wolfe- Barry completed it in 1894. Date: built 1886 - 1894

Tower Bridge 1939
The famous Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge, London, was designed by Horace Jones, who died in 1887, before it was completed. Sir John Wolfe- Barry completed it in 1894. Date: built 1886 - 1894

Gerald Barry, Director-General, Festival of Britain

General J M B Hertzog, South African Prime Minister
James Barry Munnik Hertzog (1866-1942), Boer general during the Second Boer War. He later became Prime Minister of South Africa (1924-1939). Date: 20th century

Gateway at Pentonville Prison
Portcullis gateway at Pentonville Prison, designed by Sir Charles Barry.. Date: 1862

Royal visit to Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
Scene at a royal visit to the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London. Here Princess Margaret is seen shaking hands with one of the exhibition officials

Princess Elizabeth at the Head of the River race, Devon
Princess Elizabeth is helped ashore from the launch Enchantress by Bert Barry, former world professional sculling champion, dressed in his red doggetts coat and badge regalia. Date: 17th March 1951

RAIN-IN-THE-FACE (d. 1905). Native American Sioux Chief. Oil over a photograph, 1885, by David F. Barry
RAIN-IN-THE-FACE (d.1905). Native American Sioux Chief. Oil over a photograph, 1885, by David F. Barry

GALL (c1840-c1894). Native American Sioux chief. Photographed by David F. Barry

FILM: MADAME DU BARRY, 1919. Pola Negri, in the title role, kisses the hand of King Louis XV of France (Emil Jannings) in a scene from the German film Madame Du Barry directed by Ernst Lubitsch, 1919

BOSTON RED SOX, 1916. Baseball players for the Boston Red Sox seated on a bench, 1916. Left to right: Babe Ruth, Bill Carrigan, Jack Barry and Vean Gregg

Locomotive no 90 four coupled tank locomotive

View of Barry Harbour with boats, South Wales
A view of Barry Harbour with boats, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales

Cannon Street Station - London
The elegant facade of Cannon Street Station - London - designed by Sir John Hawkshaw and J.W. Barry. A fine building, sadly heavily damaged during the Second World War

Privy Council Office, Whitehall, 1846
Engraving showing the exterior of the Privy Council Office in Whitehall, London, 1846. The facade of this building was greatly altered that year, to the designs of Barry

Comtesse Du Barry
JEANNE BECU, COMTESSE DU BARRY Paris shopgirl who became mistress to Louis XV but was guillotined during the Revolution

Du Barry Drinks Coffee
Madame Du Barry, mistress of Louis XV of France, is served a cup of coffee by her page

Switchback Railway, 1909
Switchback Railway at Barry in Glamorgan, South Wales

Lower waiting hall with statue of the architect Barry, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Barry St. Leger
BARRY ST. LEGER Military, and horse-racing enthusiast after whom the classic race is named

Sir Charles Barry
SIR CHARLES BARRY English Architect Designed the new Houses of Parliament

Sir Charles Barry - 3
SIR CHARLES BARRY Architect of - among other things - the Houses of Parliament

John Wolfe-Barry
Sir JOHN WOLFE-BARRY civil engineer whose achievements included the Tower Bridge over the river Thames in London

Barry Delivers Prologue
ANN SPRANGER BARRY delivers the Prologue to John Hones highly successful Douglas which prompted a Scottish theatregoer to cry out Waurs your Willy Shakespeare noo ?

Barry as Almeria
ANN SPRANGER BARRY as Almeria in William Congreves The mourning bride

Barry as Athenais
ANN SPRANGER BARRY as Athenais in the play Theodosius

Barry as Mariamne
ANN SPRANGER BARRY as Mariamne

Ann Barry as Constance
ANN SPRANGER BARRY actress as Constance in Shakespeares King John

Ann Barry as Zenobia
ANN SPRANGER BARRY actress as Zenobia, queen of Palmyra

Ann Spranger Barry
ANN SPRANGER BARRY in the travesti role of sir Harry Wildair in George Farquhars The constant couple

Countess of Barry
JEANNE BECU, COMTESSE DU BARRY Paris shopgirl who became mistress to Louis XV but was guillotined during the Revolution

Dr Johnson / Barry Unfin
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON Writer and lexicographer in around 1777

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