Black Collection (#93)

St Maria Maggiore
circa 1780: St Maria Maggiore, Rome, where composer Giovanni Palestrina took singing lessons. Original Artwork: Engraving by Piranesi. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

New York
circa 1780: New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Royal George
circa 1780: The Royal George, a First rate Man of War carrying 100 guns and with a crew of 780 men. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

British Museum
1780: People camping in the grounds of Montague House on Great Russell Street in London, the home of the British Museum. Meanwhile, London was in the grip of the anti-Roman Catholic Gordon Riots

Schonbrunn Palace
1782: Schonbrunn, the Imperial Summer Palace in Vienna, built in the rococo style. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dublin
18th May 1782: The countryside surrounding Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, including the River Liffey. Original Artwork: Engraving by F Cary. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Alnwick Castle, seat of the Duke of Northumberland, circa 1783. Engraving by W Watts after Lord Duncannon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wool Machine
1790: Mr Hughes machine for twitching wool. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Love Nest
circa 1790: A Man of Feeling by Rowlandson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Covent Garden Square
circa 1790: Covent Garden Market and piazza, London, surrounded by houses with arcades beneath. Original Publication: From Old And New London (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Collecting Tolls
circa 1790: Traffic on a road with a toll house stretching across it. Searle Collection (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rheims Cathedral
circa 1790: A west view of Rheims cathedral. Original Artwork: Engraving by W Thomas published 1793 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mstricht
circa 1790: A general view of Mstrict in the late 17th Century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mozarts death place
Exterior view of the Rauhensteingasse apartment building in which Mozart died, Austria, Vienna, Austria, 1791. (Engraving by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Four Poster Twin
1792: A Sheraton summer bed divided into two compartments with a four-poster canopy and curtains. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

No Change There Then
1793: An illustrated depiction of a postman of 1793 delivering the mail. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Opera House
15th September 1794: The original entrance to the Covent Garden Opera House in London. Double doors are visible at the end of the arcade with double pillars on each side and a coat of arms above

Antwerp
1st February 1795: A view of Antwerp from across the Scheld. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Palanquin
September 1796: The Palanquin, a covered litter carried by six men, presented by the Marquis Cornwallis to Prince Abdul Calic, oldest son of Tippoo Sultaun. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, circa 1797. Engraving by J. Walker from a drawing by Girlin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Terrier
A terrier sneaks through a yard with a dead rat in its mouth. Engraved by Howitt, circa 1798. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Iron Foundry
1798: An iron foundry at Downtown, Hertfordshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hamburg
1st November 1799: The Ladies Walk alongside the river in Hamburg, in north central Germany. Original Artwork: Engraving by Morris. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Reel
circa 1800: A factory worker operates a machine for guiding wool onto large reels. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dining Set
circa 1800: A set of six Hepplewhite-style dining chairs with wheat ear motifs, camel backs and curved serpentine seats. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dining Chair
circa 1800: An ornate chair, with the rounded back and curved seat characteristic of Hepplewhite furniture, but with unusually plain legs. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Humble Start
circa 1800: The house in Rohrau, Austria where the composer Franz Josef Haydn (1732 - 1809) was born. Original Artist - Johann Reinhart (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Basilica Santa Maria
circa 1800: The Basilica of St Maria Maggiore in Rome. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Plessis Castle
circa 1800: Plessis les Tours castle at Indre et Loire, France. Original Artwork: Drawn by M.A.K (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Church Of St Moritz
circa 1800: The entrance to the 12th century church of St Moritz in Halle, Germany. Handel was born in the town and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (son of Js Bach) was organist in another local church

Lubeck
circa 1800: The Holstein Bridge over the River Trave in Lubeck, a city in north Germany. Original Artwork: Engraving by Esslinger after von Radl. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Schonbrunn Palace
circa 1800: The imperial summer palace and 18th century gardens of Schonbrunn in Vienna. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A La Mode
circa 1800: Habit of a Persian Lady from M de Feriel The Persian Ladies though very handsome, greatly disfigure themselves, particularly in their Head-dress. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stonemasons
circa 1765: Stonemasons at work in an illustration from Diderots Encyclopaedia Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux et les Arts mechaniques Vol 1

Rotuma Islanders
circa 1860: South Pacific islanders in Rotuma wave to a sailing ship. Rotuma is a dependency of Fiji. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

St Petersburg
circa 1900: The city of St Petersburg in Russia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Printing Works
30th August 1879: Printing Presses of the Illustrated London News. Top illustration shows, folding machines, wetting paper, damping paper for rotary machines

Famished
1846: A starving boy and girl rake the ground for potatoes at Cahera during the Irish potato famine. (Photo by HultonArchive/Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Philadelphia Street
circa 1890: Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which runs west from the Delaware River to the western limit of the town and is named after tree growing in the state

Beirut
circa 1800: The ancient Berothah in Beirut. Original Artwork: Engraved by J B Allen after a drawing by W H Bartlett (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chelsea College
circa 1800: King James College in Chelsea, London, on the north bank of the River Thames. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Reform Club
circa 1800: The corridors of the saloon at Londons famous Reform Club on Pall Mall. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Salisbury Cathedral
circa 1800: A north elevation of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire. Original Artist: By Thornton (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Athenaeum Club
circa 1850: The hall of the Athenaeum Club on Pall Mall, London. Original Artist: By G B Moore and William Radclyffe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

London Zoo
circa 1850: Visitors to the camel enclosure at the Zoological Gardens in Regents Park, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kandahar
circa 1800: The main bazaar in the city of Kandahar (or Candahar), with the citadel in the background. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Haddon Hall
circa 1800: The chapel of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Flock Of Geese
1800: A flock of geese in a yard. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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