1840 1849 Collection

Franz Liszt at 30 Years of Age
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) at the age of 30. Original Artwork: Reproduced from a daguerreotype, the first commercially successful photographic process

Charlotte Bronte
circa 1840: English novelist Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855). Original Artwork: Portrait by Thompson. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Monck Masons Airship
The Victoria, an early airship built by English aviator Thomas Monck Mason, 1843. American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

No Lions
circa 1843: Trafalgar Square, the base of Nelsons column surrounded with scaffolding and without the lions. The church of St Martin-in-the-Fields is in the background

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
1845: Open here I flung the shutter, when with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore....... From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Illustration For Poes The Pit And The Pendulum
A man bound next to a pit sees horrific images of a dragon, a skeleton, a skull, and giant spiders as he is slowly tortured by a razor-edged pendulum

Grim Reaper
A poor man being visited by an apparition on his death bed. Original Artwork: By John Leech for Punch - Vol IN:I (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Parsnip, Coriander, Hartwort, Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
Antique illustration of a Parsnip, Coriander, Hartwort, Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)

Hydraulic Mining During The Gold Rush
Hydraulic mining at French Corral, the first historic mining camp to appear along the San Juan Ridge, during the California Gold Rush era, circa 1849. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Illustration For Edgar Allan Poes Hop Frog
A young woman lies at the feet of a court jester after the king, sitting at a banquet table with his ministers, has thrown a goblet of wine in her face

Pegging Boots By Hand
Engraving shows a shoemaker as he wears an apron, sits on a cobblers bench in his workshop, and pegs a boot by hand, mid to late 19th Century

Gathering Wild Rice
Illustration of traditional wild rice gathering by canoe circa 1840. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

The College Of William & Mary
Engraving shows the Wren Building and quadrangle of the campus of the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1845

A Demon In My View
A figure sees a demonic apparition in a stormcloud in American author Edgar Allan Poes 1849 collection The Bells And Other Poems. (Photo by Edmund Dulac/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Moon
1840: One of the first ever pictures of the moon taken by Dr J W Draper of New York. (Photo by J. W. Draper/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Illustration Of Tippecanoe Procession, MD, 1840
Illustration depicting the Tippecanoe procession in support of Whig party presidential candidate William H. Harrison, Baltimore, Maryland, 1840. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Peoples Beehive
1840: The British Beehive, a cartoon depicting the population as members of a behive with the Queen at the top and various other occupations in cells below her

Oliver Twist
circa 1840: Oliver is teased by Fagin and his gang of pickpockets in a scene from Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. Original Artwork: Engraving by George Cruikshank. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Britannia Bridge
September 1848: Robert Stephensons Britannia Bridge under construction. Original Artwork: Engraving by G Hawkins (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pulsatilla pratensis (small pasque flower)
Illustration of a Pulsatilla pratensis (small pasque flower)

Parsnip, Coriander, Hartwort, Hemlock (Cicuta virosa)
Illustration of a Parsnip, Coriander, Hartwort, Hemlock (Cicuta virosa)

Map of Derwentwater, Keswick, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Derwentwater, Keswick, England Victorian Engraving, 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of Bristol and Clifton, Yorkshire, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Bristol and Clifton in Yorkshire, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical

Map of Bristol in Yorkshire, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1247
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Bristol in Yorkshire, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1247 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of Woburn and Neighborhoods, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Woburn and Neighborhoods, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical

Map of Kent and Neighborhoods, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Kent and Neighborhoods, England Victorian Engraving, 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of Burghley and Neighborhoods, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Burghley and Neighborhoods, England Victorian Engraving, 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of the Course of the River Clyde, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of the Course of the River Clyde, England Victorian Engraving, 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical

Map of Edgehill and Naseby, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Edgehill and Naseby, England Victorian Engraving, 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of Cornwall and Lands End, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Cornwall and Lands End, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of Ludlow, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Ludlow, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840 from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

Map of Crowland, England Victorian Engraving, Circa 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Crowland, The Cut at Peakirk Victorian Engraving from Our Own Country, Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial. Published in 1880

Electro-magnetic machine
Antique illustration of a Electro-magnetic machine

Kummer & Co. electro-magnetic machine

Alfredia (Alfredia Cernua)
Illustration of a Alfredia (Alfredia Cernua)

Primrose, Oenothera, Mudwort, Mullein (Verbascum)
Illustration of a Primrose, Oenothera, Mudwort, Mullein (Verbascum)

Broomrape, Clove, Orobanche, Red Broomrape, Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria)
Illustration of a Broomrape, Clove, Orobanche, Red Broomrape, Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria)

Leather industry, rolling machine
Illustration of a leather industry, rolling machine

Leather industry, splitting machine
Illustration of a leather industry, splitting machine

Leather industry machine
Illustration of a leather industry machine

Leather industry, burnishing machine
Illustration of a leather industry, burnishing machine

Fremont Camp In Wyoming
Landscape scene of Fremont Camp, Wyoming, 1845. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Presidental Residence
Franklin House, the first presidental residence, at No. 1 Cherry Street in New York, circa 1840. George Washington lived there briefly in 1789. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

The Dragon
A sea creature witth a long tentacle tail and large mouth chases a number of smaller creatures acrosse the ocean floor, engraved by Brevieres from an illustration by French artist

Beecher Homestead
An engraved illustration of The Beecher Homestead at Litchfield Conn, the birthplace of Henry Ward Beecher circa 1840s. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Interior Of Tunnel In California Gold Mine
Interior of a tunnel of a gold mine during the California Gold Rush era, circa 1849. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Miners During The California Gold Rush
Miners travelling to find new diggings during the California Gold Rush era, 1849. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Illustration For Poes The Gold Bug
Illustration for the Edgar Allan Poe short story The Gold Bug, early 1840s. Clockwise from top: Three men and a dog gathered in front of a fireplace look at a parchment in the glow of the fire; a

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