Art Illustrations Collection (#5)

Potentilla or Cinquefoil Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Potentilla or Cinquefoil Plant: Plate 54

School Rugby
Students playing a game of rugby at Rugby Public School, England. Original Artwork: A painting by George Barnard. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Covent Garden Theatre
The auditorium and stage of the New Covent Garden Theatre in London, better known as the Royal Opera House or Covent Garden Opera House

India Display
The India stand at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, at Hyde Park, London

Medieval Court
Victorians attending the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, in Hyde Park, London

Palace Transept
The Transept at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, at Hyde Park, London

Canadian Display
A display from Canada at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, at Hyde Park, London

Textile Works
Sir Titus Salts textile works at Saltaire, Yorkshire from the north side. Around the factory was built the model village of Saltaire

Junks At War
The Honourable East India Cos steamer Nemesis and the boats of the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling destroying Chinese war junks at Ansons Bay during the First Opium War

Phosphoroscope (1857) by Becquerel, wood engraving, published in 1880
Phosphoroscope by Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French physicist, 1820 - 1891). A phosphoroscope is piece of experimental equipment

Steam Hammer
James Naysmiths invention, the steam hammer, in operation at an iron foundry. Original Artwork: From a painting by Naysmith himself. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Late Comers
A teacher looking at his watch as a group of tired children arrive late for Sunday school. Original Artwork: From The Life & Adventures of Michael Armstrong the Factory Boy by Francis Trollope

Conway Castle (also Conwy) in Carnarvonshire, north-west Wales, built by Edward I to subdue the Welsh in about 1284. Original Artwork

LMS Railway
Entrance of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line at Edge Hill in Liverpool. Original Artwork: Drawing by TT Bury, engraved by H Pyall and published by Ackerman

A Grimm Tale
Little Red Riding Hood meets the Wolf on her journey through the wood, in a scene from the Grimm fairy tale. Original Artwork: An engraving by A H Payne after E Speinbruck

Paulskirche
The Paulskirche, Church of St Paul, in Frankfurt Germany. It was the meeting place of the Frankfurt Parliament (German National Assembly)

Charlie Boy
A gentleman pushing over a watchmans hut to the delight of passers by. Entitled, Getting the Better of a Charlie. Original Artwork

Bored And Drunk
A drunken revelry with drinkers collapsing under the table, dancing on its top and being sick. Entitled, Miseries of the Country

Mainz Cathedral in Germany. Construction began in 980 but had to be restarted after a fire in 1081. Original Artwork: Drawing by W L Leitch. Engraved by J Redaway

Cologne Cathedral
A 19th century drawing of Cologne Cathedral. Construction began in 1181, initially as a shrine to house the relics of the Three Wise Men who attended Christs birth

Mermaids At Brighton
Women venturing into the water from bathing machines drawn up to the sea at Brighton. They are clad in voluminous bathing dresses

Grand Junction Canal
Locks descending north of the entrance to the Braunston Tunnel on the Grand Junction Canal which linked the Oxford Canal in the Northampton area with London

Worms
The town of Worms in Germany. One of the Rhenish towns that joined the League of the Rhine in 1254, a political and economic union which stretched from Lubeck to Zurich

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)

Bow Street Runner
John Townsend, a Bow Street Runner. The Runners were forerunners of the modern police force and policed the streets in conjunction with nightwatchman but were more efficient

Westminster Lamps
A few pedestrians linger beneath the gas lamps on Westminster Bridge while a carriage crosses the bridge. Original Artwork: Engraving by Gustave Dore. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Centaurea or Knapweed Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Centaurea or Knapweed Plant: Plate 55

Keeping The Peace
Cartoon titled A Slap At The Charleys or A Tom And Jerry Lark published in response to Robert Peels reorganization of the London metropolitan police force

National Assembly
The Frankfurt Parliament (German National Assembly) gathered between 1848 and 1849 during the period of widespread revolution at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. Original Artwork: Engraving by Verleger

Kilsby Tunnel
Broken sleepers and pieces of stone on the track in the great ventilation shaft at Kilsby Tunnel, built by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham line

Make No Mistake
Elinor Dashwood talking to Lucy Steele in a scene from Jane Austens Sense And Sensibility. Then taking a small miniature from her pocket she added, to prevent the possibility of a mistake

Safer Streets
A line of policemen in beards striking terror into the hearts of the local children, entitled, The Police wear Beards and Moustaches - Panic Among The Street Boys

Welsh Quarry
A black marble quarry near Red Wharf Bay in Anglesea. Original Artwork: Aquatint by William Daniell (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Taking Snuff
A group of women taking snuff. Tis very good!(Indeed) Original Artwork: Engraving by Boilly (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pyrethrum or Chrysanthemum Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Pyrethrum or Chrysanthemum Plant: Plate 54

Les Fumeurs
A group of men smoking a selection of pipes and cigarettes. Les Fumeurs Original Artwork: Engraving by Boilly (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A Little Nuisance
A young passer-by disturbs a courting couple. The caption reads The fat boy awoke on this occasion only. Original Artwork

The Hall Of Infamy
Diners watching a punch-up in their midst at the Oyster Saloon in Bridges Street, New Covent Garden, London. Original Artwork: The Hall of Infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges Street

Caernarvon Bridges
The Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, and the Britannia Tubular Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson, between mainland Wales and Anglesey. Original Artwork: Lithograph by Picken

Penstemon or Beardtongue Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Penstemon or Beardtongue Plant: Plate 54

Pentonville Road, London, with St Pancras Station in the background. Original Artwork: Painting by John O Connor (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Paenoia or Peony Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Paenoia or Peony Plant: Plate 54, from The Book of Practical Botany in Word and Image

Press Repression
Gendarmes arrive to seize printing presses in an attempt to limit freedom of expression during the July Revolution which deposed Charles X

Oxalis or Wood Sorrel Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Oxalis or Wood Sorrel Plant: Plate 54

Classroom Chaos
A view of French education before the Guizot reforms of 1833 - a classroom rife with indiscipline and disorder. Original Artwork

Primula Auricula or Mountain Cowslip Plant, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Potentilla or Cinquefoil Plant: Plate 54

Shopping Under Siege
Under siege by the Prussian army, Parisians are reduced to buying cat, dog and rat meat at a butchers stall during the Franco-Prussian war

Flauberts Study
The study, at Croisset in Normandy, of French novelist, Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880). Original Artwork: Drawing by Lecomte (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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