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Rischgitz Collection

Remarkable and historic photographs of people and events that particularly interested Augustus Rischgitz

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Background imageRischgitz Collection: Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers
circa 1850: An officer of the Royal Engineers gives orders to two privates. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven
German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827). Original Artwork: Portrait August von Kloeber (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: HMS Vanguard

HMS Vanguard
1st August 1798: Nelsons ship Vanguard at the head of the British fleet, with signal flags flying, faces the French at the Battle of the Nile in Aboukir Bay during the Napoleonic Wars

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Gamo Captured

Gamo Captured
The capture of the Spanish frigate El Gamo by Commander Lord Thomas Cochrane in the HMS Speedy, off Barcelona, 6th May 1801. (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Bronte Sisters by Patrick Branwell Bronte

Bronte Sisters by Patrick Branwell Bronte
circa 1834: English writers Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Original Artwork: Painting by their brother, Patrick Branwell Bronte who painted himself among his sisters

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
English novelist Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Sitting Dickens

Sitting Dickens
English writer Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), from the original wet-plate negative by Herbert Watkins. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Dumas Birthplace

Dumas Birthplace
The Rue Alexandre Dumas in Villers-Cotterets in Picardy, showing the house, which was the birthplace of French writer, Alexandre Dumas (pere) (1802 - 1870). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Bull Baiting

Bull Baiting
circa 1810: A tethered bull is baited with dogs and sticks. An engraving by I Clark after Henry Alken (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Womens Vote

Womens Vote
1853: A cartoon about the effects of giving women the vote with the ladies candidate being a dashing young man and the mens just the opposite

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Pantomime Audience

Pantomime Audience
8th January 1848: The audience for a pantomime, ranging from a beerswilling old woman in the gallery, to a superior young man and a family in a box and a mixed group in the pit

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), the 16th President of the United States of America (1861 - 1865). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Musical Mozarts

Musical Mozarts
German composer Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787) playing the violin accompanied by his seven year old son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) on the harpsichord

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Times Of The Day

Times Of The Day
A lady makes her way through Covent Garden in London, ignoring the scenes of public debauchery, 1736. An engraving of Morning from the Four Times of the Day series of paintings by William Hogarth

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Bull And Mouth Sign, Guild Hall Museum, London

Bull And Mouth Sign, Guild Hall Museum, London
1887: Sign of the Bull and Mouth in the Guild Hall Museum, London. Showing a bull standing over a face with a large mouth it is a corruption of Boulogne Mouth referring to the entrance to Boulogne

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Unhappy Lot

Unhappy Lot
1895: A policeman fending off an angry crowd in the east end of London. Graphic - Taking One Consideration with another a policemans lot is not a happy one - pub

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Wagners Birthplace

Wagners Birthplace
circa 1910: The birthplace in Leipzig of German composer Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Pet Food

Pet Food
circa 1895: A woman sells pet food from a wheel barrow. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Dragoon Guard

Dragoon Guard
circa 1900: An officer of the 1st Dragoon Guards in full uniform. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Mounted Soldier

Mounted Soldier
circa 1910: A Sergeant Major in the Imperial Light Horse forces. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Small Love

Small Love
circa 1890: Portrait of the dwarves, C Hester and Miss Wrigley. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: The Plate Room

The Plate Room
circa 1900: The Plate Room in the Hotel Cecil, showing the cutlery and silverware. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Hamburg Cocks

Hamburg Cocks
circa 1900: Cockerels and chickens of the Hamburg breed, showing variations in colour and markings. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Viking Remains

Viking Remains
circa 1920: The remains of a Viking longship found at Gokstad in South Norway. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Newcomen Engine

Newcomen Engine
circa 1908: The Newcomen engine at Farme Colliery, Rutherglen, which was made in the 1730s and was one of the first to use Thomas Newcomens steam engine. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Stage Wall

Stage Wall
circa 1950: The wall of the stage at the Theatre of Dionysius, below the Acroplis, in Athens. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament
circa 1900: Parliament Square and the Law Courts in the Old Town area of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile. Many of Edinburghs landmarks are found along the Royal Mile including the City Chambers

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant
circa 1885: French writer Henry Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893), a master of the short story and author of the acclaimed Boule de Suif. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Domesday Chest

Domesday Chest
The ancient chest which contained the Domesday Book is still preserved in the Public Records Office. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: A Harpist

A Harpist
circa 1890: A harpist playing her instrument. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Glory Of God

Glory Of God
29th December 1894: A painting, Give Me The Lowest Place, designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones dedicated to the Glory of God

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Triple Camera

Triple Camera
circa 1910: C W Lockes cinematograph house and triple dioramic apparatus. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Cervantes House

Cervantes House
circa 1915: The house where Spanish novelist and poet Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra corrected the first proof of Don Quixote. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Ladies Football

Ladies Football

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Car On Truck

Car On Truck
October 1905: The Maxwell Briscon truck first used at the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Row Of Medals

Row Of Medals
circa 1930: A row of medals, (left to right) the Victoria Cross, Crimea Medal, New Zealand Medal and the Legion of Honour. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: The Retreat

The Retreat
circa 1910: The drums of a military band beating at retreat. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Railway Signals 1844

Railway Signals 1844
1844: British railway signals as they were at the birth of the age of steam. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral
circa 1895: The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Westminster, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Haystack Boiler

Haystack Boiler
circa 1908: The Newcomen haystack boiler at Farme Colliery, Rutherglen, which was made in the 1730s and was one of the first to use Thomas Newcomens steam engine. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Indian Christmas

Indian Christmas
circa 1900: A British family celebrating Christmas in India. Rischgitz Collection By E K Johnson (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Treasure Of Priam

Treasure Of Priam
1874: Treasures discovered by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik and wrongly identified as belonging to Priam King of Troy. They actually came from an earlier, pre-Homeric site

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Evening Gown

Evening Gown
1916: An evening dress in brocaded crepe de chine, trimmed with velvet. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Sandy Combe Lodge

Sandy Combe Lodge
circa 1910: Sandy Combe Lodge in Twickenham, the former home of the English painetr, Joseph Turner. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Equality Of Race

Equality Of Race
1816: Governor Daveys proclamation of mutual friendship and justice printed in easily understood pictures for illiterate Aborigines

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Unifying Italy

Unifying Italy
March 1849: The Austrian army, led by Count Radetzky, defeats the Sardinians under King Charles Albert of Piedmont at the Battle of Novara

Background imageRischgitz Collection: Presbyterian Prayer

Presbyterian Prayer
Circa 1670, A Presbyterian Minister blessing two chalices on a makeshift altar whilst congregation members take the Sacrament at a Covenanters Communion



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