Heritage Images Collection (page 3)

Gobelin Tapestry
An illustration from volume IX of Diderots Encyclopedie showing the process of manufacture of a Gobelin tapestry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Making Vices
1771: People at work in a factory, making vices. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Peonies
circa 1775: Two peonies and a dragonfly. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Amsterdam
circa 1775: City of Amsterdam with some of its notable buildings, seen from the water. Original Artwork: Engraving by T Prattent (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Drury Lane Theatre
1775: The auditorium of the second Drury Lane theatre in London, viewed from the stage. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Christs Hospital
30th May 1776: In about 1673 Robert Clayton, alderman of London, founded a free school for the instruction of poorer children at Christs Hospital in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Knit One Purl One
circa 1890: A Victorian woman knits in the conservatory of her house. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rooftop Vista
circa 1920: Rooftops and church spires in the old city, Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by J. Bulhak/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Ottawa Parliament
circa 1890: The Houses of Parliament in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chirk
The New Bridge on the River Dee, near Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, Wales, circa 1779. Drawn by P. Sandby, engraved by P. Maxell, published 1779. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dusseldorf
A floating platform on the river in Dusseldorf, in west central Germany. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kings Theatre
The Italian Opera House or Kings Theatre in Londons Haymarket, built by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1728, as it appeared before the fire of June 1789. The site is now occupied by His Majestys Theatre

Hooker Round-Up
French prostitutes are tried, convicted and shorn of their hair, before being shipped to America. A shortage of female volunteers to people the new transatlantic colonies made such drastic measures

Arnolds Balloon
circa 1780: A view of the Royal Circus from St Georges Fields at the time of the ascension of Arnolds hydrogen balloon. An engraving by Cook. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dreams Of Love
circa 1780: Love in a Gutter by Rowlandson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Norwich Cathedral
circa 1780: Norwich cathedral in Norfolk. Original Artwork: Engraved by Thornton (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hereford Cathedral
circa 1780: The cathedral church of St Mary and St Ethelbert in Hereford. Houses the 13th century Mappa Mundi. Original Artwork: Engraved by Thornton (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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)

Fair Songsters
circa 1780: Two women in classical dress studying a sheet of music. Engraving by J.R. Smith after the painting by the Rev. William Peters R.A. (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)

Holland House
circa 1780: Holland House, an E-plan Jacobean manor in Kensington, London. Original Artwork: Lithograph by Day & Son (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Carlton House
circa 1780: Carlton House on Pall Mall, London, designed by John Nash. Original Artwork: Engraved by Prattent. (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

Kings Theatre
circa 1780: The Italian Opera House or Kings Theatre in Londons Haymarket, built by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1728. The site is now occupied by His Majestys Theatre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Japanese Beach Ball
circa 1780: Japanese woodcut of a young girl playing with a ball at a beach on the plains below Mount Fuji. Designed to decorate a hand-held fan. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Eighteenth Century Norwich
A south-east view of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, with the River Wensum in the foreground and the Norman cathedral, centre, left, 1780. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Islands Of Paris
The Pont de la Tournelle over the River Seine in Paris, with the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris behind it, 1780. Also pictured are the Ile Saint-Louis, the Isle Louvier and the Quai St Bernard

Wentworth Castle in Yorkshire, circa 1780. It was the seat of the Earls of Strafford until 1799. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wentworth Castle in Yorkshire, circa 1780. It was the seat of the Earls of Strafford until 1799. Engraved by W. Watts from a drawing by T. Malton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, the seat of the Marquess of Rockingham, circa 1780. Engraved for The Complete English Traveller. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Gibraltar Blockaded
View of Gibraltar showing soldiers encamped and the British Navy under the command of Admiral Darby attacking the Spanish fleet which are blockading Gibraltar

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)

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

Up She Comes
1783: Showing how two boats attempted to raise HMS Royal George at Spithead by slinging ropes round the hull. Original Artist - William Tracy (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scottish Cockfight
A cockfight between Lanark and Haddington in Scotland, 1785. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sees Cathedral
May 1786: Various elevations of the Cathedral Church in Sees, Normandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Holdenby House
A view of Holdenby House in Northamptonshire, England where King Charles I was imprisoned after the Battle of Naseby in 1645

Grand Coiffures
A sketch entitled Mode des Grandes Coiffures, Academie de Coiffure showing an assistant weighed down by the excessive hairstyle of a customer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Burning The Guardhouse
The burning of the guardhouse on the Pont Neuf in Paris, the year before the start of the French Revolution, 29th August 1788. Drawn and engraved by Girardet and finished by Niquet

Off To Fetch The King
A large crowd of soldiers, accompanied by women from the markets of Les Halles, on their way to Versailles to bring King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette back to Paris

Poor Puppy Dog
Mister Scavenger! have you seen a nice clean puppy dog? hes just slipt from this here ribbond. No Muster Johnny. No I haven t seed not nothing of the sort afore today

Steelworks
The interior of a smelting house at Broseley in Shropshire. Original Artwork: After Robertson. (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)

Dr Syntax
circa 1790: Dr Syntax is discovered by his wife in a Paris library, and a look of terror comes over his face as she rushes towards him

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