- Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher [Wikipedia] - The Duchess of Kent, with Princess Victoria at the age of two
The Duchess of Kent, with Princess Victoria at the age of two - The Queens first council - Kensington Palace June 20 1837
Queen Victorias first council - Kensington Palace June 20 1837 The year 1837, except for the death of the old King and the accession of the young Queen, was a tolerably insignificant year. It was on June 20 that the King died. He was buried on the evening of July 9 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor; on the 10th the Queen dissolved Parliament; on the 13th she went to Buckingham Palace; and on November 9 she visited the City, where they gave her a magnificent banquet, served in Guildhall at half past five, the Lord Mayor and City magnates humbly taking their modest meal at a lower table. - Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt - Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel - John Galt
- The Queen receiving the sacrament, after her coronation - Westminster Abbey, June 29, 1838
- Fashions for 1836 and 1837
Fashions for 1836 and 1837 - Theodore S Hook
Theodore S Hook - M. Blessington
M. Blessington - Alfred d Orsay
Alfred d Orsay - Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith - John Baldwin Buckstone
John Baldwin Buckstone - Thomas Noon Talfourd
Thomas Noon Talfourd - Mary Russell Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford - Walter Scott
Walter Scott - Lord Lyndhurst
Lord Lyndhurst - William Cobbett
William Cobbett - Burdett, Hume and O'Connell
Burdett, Hume and O'Connell - Edward Lytton Bulwer
Edward Lytton Bulwer - Lord John Russell
Lord John Russell - Benjamin D’Israeli
Benjamin D’Israeli - The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark
The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark - Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth - Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Rev. William Lisle Bowles - Pierre-Jean De Béranger
Pierre-Jean De Béranger - Lord Byron
Lord Byron - James Hogg
James Hogg - Regina's Maids of Honour
Regina's Maids of Honour - Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau - William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth - The Fraserians
The Fraserians - John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart - Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers - Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore - Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham - Washington Irving
Washington Irving - John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker - Sir John C. Hobhouse
Sir John C. Hobhouse - Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday - Queen Victoria in 1839
Queen Victoria in 1839 - Napoleon at Longwood
Napoleon at Longwood - Charlemagne
Portrait of Charlemagne, whom the Song of Roland names the King with the Grizzly Beard.--Fac-simile of an Engraving of the End of the Sixteenth Century. Charlemagne was the first who recognised that social union, so admirable an example of which was furnished by Roman organization, and who was able, with the very elements of confusion and disorder to which he succeeded, to unite, direct, and consolidate diverging and opposite forces, to establish and regulate public administrations, to found and build towns, and to form and reconstruct almost a new world. We hear of him assigning to each his place, creating for all a common interest, making of a crowd of small and scattered peoples a great and powerful nation; in a word, rekindling the beacon of ancient civilisation. When he died, after a most active and glorious reign of forty-five years, he left an immense empire in the most perfect state of peace - The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the Windows of the Lodge of the Heralds
The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the Windows of the Lodge of the Heralds After a Miniature of the "Tournaments of King Réné" (Fifteenth Century), MSS. of the National Library of Paris. - Electric flying machine depicted in Le Philosophe sans pretension (1775)
We reproduce as a curiosity this charming vignette, where we see the inventor Scintilla driving his machine. - Besnier's flying apparatus
Reproduction by heliogravure of the figure from the Journal des sçavans (1678). Extract from a letter written to Mr. Toynard on a Machine of a new invention to fly in the air. A, right front aisle. — B, left rear aisle. — C, left front aisle. — D, right rear aisle. — E, fissure of the left foot which lowers the D aisle, when the left hand lowers the Aisle C. — F, fissure of the right foot which lowers the D-pin when the left hand lowers the C-pin. - Assassination of Henry IV
Assassination of Henry IV, Rue de la Ferronnerie, may 14, 1610. - Caroche
Caroche, covered with leather, studded with gold-headed nails, percherons; period, end of sixteenth century. - Armed Parisians meeting the king
Armed Parisians meeting the king, 1383 From an illuminated manuscript in the National Library, Paris. - A Merovingian Queen
A Merovingian Queen - Death of Sainte-Geneviève
Sainte-Geneviève, the patron saint of the Parisians, also perpetuated with her legend on the walls of the Panthéon, originally her church but now dedicated to the Grands Hommes of the nation, was born at Nanterre, near Paris, in 422, and guarded in the fields the flocks of her parents, Sévère and Gérontia. - Remains of roman amphitheatre
Remains of roman amphitheatre, Rue Monge, discovered in 1869. - Fragment of roman aqueduct
Fragment of roman aqueduct - Distributing Bread
Water-color by George Rochegrosse. - A Wedding ( La Madeleine )
The crowd is generally sympathetic to weddings. The hour at which they are accomplished generally coincides with that of the lunch of the milliners and other dressmakers of the district, which their lack of dowry maintains in the state of celibates without depriving them of the desire and the hope of going up in `rank`. They constitute the fund of spectators, and their special knowledge enables them to estimate with precision the probable resources of the new spouses and their entourage. - Return of the Races
From the weighing gate of Longchamps to the top of avenue du Bois, there is everywhere the same accumulation of cars, horses and bicycles. The lines follow one another without interruption, the noses of the horses touching the hood of the previous car and the drawbars threatening the rear of the footmen sitting behind the phaeton. Despite the impatience of some, the general resignation means that, in a relatively short time, this mass of spectators ends up flowing, which, first of all, seemed to be absolutely implausible. - Bicyclists ( Carrefour d'Ermenonville )
While at the Potinière we admire the velocemen and velocewomen in possession of all the secrets of art, we only meet here the laggards studying under the eye of professionals. It is assured that the ordinarily gifted people are, after ten lessons, in a condition to direct themselves properly. But just as some students take a long time to do their law far beyond the statutory years, so we find certain temperaments refractory to equilibrium which persist in capsizing at every turn of the wheel beyond all expectations. - The waterer of the Louis XV bridge
Few horses are driven there for the sole purpose of quenching their thirst, but the number of tired hocks that we hope to strengthen by staying in cold water is large enough for the trough to be sufficiently populated, and the hope of seeing some clumsy groom fall into the water keeps a certain number of fans of free shows on the parapets.