Steamboat Collection (#11)

A steamer departing from Trouville for Le Havre, France, c1920s. The Queen of Beaches, French postcard

Albany, New York, USA, 1837. Artist: C Cousen
Albany, New York, USA, 1837

Rouen, Le Pont Transbordeur, (Transporter Bridge), 20th Century
Rouen, Le Pont Transbordeur, 20th Century. (The Transporter Bridge)

Miss Simpson & Jeane on deck of Steamboat, l isle d Orleans, Quebec Wharf, 1926

Lugano and Monte San Salvatore, Switzerland, 20th century

Bonn and the River Rhine, 20th century. View showing a river steamer

Lucerne, Switzerland, 20th century. View of the city with the summit of Pilatus (2132m) in the background

The Albert Bridge, Windsor, Berkshire. Steamboat on the River Thames, with the bridge in the distance. Illustration from The Life & Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Vol III

Queen Victoria opening Glasgow waterworks at Loch Katrine, Scotland, 1859. This fresh-water lake is used as a reservoir for the city of Glasgow

The Comet, c1812, (c1880). Henry Bells steam boat Comet, 40ft long (12.19m), powered by a 3hp Boulton & Watt engine, was the first successful steam boat in Europe

Palace of Horticulture, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Artist: Ewald Thiel
Palace of Horticulture, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900)

Old Paris, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Artist: Ewald Thiel
Old Paris, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900)

The Clifton suspension bridge across the River Avon, 1864. Spanning the River Avon 245 feet above the water, the Clifton Suspension Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1829-1831

Waiting the Arrival of the Mission Steamer, Likoma, Lake Nyasa, Africa, 1904. Scene in what is now Malawi. Published by the Universities Mission to Central Africa

The Victoria Tower and the Houses of Parliament, London, 1900. Illustration from The life and times of Queen Victoria by Robert Wilson, (1900)

Brighton, from the Chain Pier, East Sussex, 1829. Artist: WJ Cooke
Brighton, from the Chain Pier, East Sussex, 1829. The original chain pier at Brighton was designed by Captain Samuel Brown (1774-1851)

Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1886. The Princes Bridge is a historic bridge that crosses the Yarra River in Melbourne

The sugar industry, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: JR Ashton
The sugar industry, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran

Wool barge on the River Darling, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell

Brisbane From Bowen Terrace, 1886. View of steamships in the harbour at Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia

A steamboat on the Volga, Russia, c1890. An engraving from Robert Browns The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890)

London Bridge, London, 19th century. Artist: J Woods
London Bridge, London, 19th century. View across the Thames from Southwark, with Fishmongers Hall, the Monument and the spire of St Magnus the Martyr visible on the far bank

Loading a Cotton Steamer, 1877. This is probably a scene on the River Mississippi in the American South

Steamboat travelling on the Orinoco, South America, 1877

View of Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, 1877. View of a steamboat and sailing ships at Puntarenas in the Gulf of Nicoya on the Pacific Coast

Entrance to the Port of Marseilles, France, 1875. Artist: A Willmore
Entrance to the Port of Marseilles, France, 1875. The French troops embarked at this port in aid of the Italians in May 1859

The Action of Nikolai Skrydlov on the Danube, 1881. Found in the collection of State A. Radishchev Art Museum, Saratov

Pilgrims, Solovetsky Monastery, Russia, 1904. Artist: Maxim Dmitriev
Pilgrims, Solovetsky Monastery, Russia, 1904. Situated on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea in northern Russia, Solovetsky Monastery was founded in 1429

View of Nizhny Novgorod, 1878. Artist: Aleksey Bogolyubov
View of Nizhny Novgorod, 1878. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

The Fontanka River in St Petersburg, Russia, 1900s. Artist: Fred Boisson
The Fontanka River in St Petersburg, Russia, 1900s. Found in the collection of the Institute for the History of Material Culture, St Petersburg

Between Quillebeuf and Villequier, c1832. Artist: JMW Turner
Between Quillebeuf and Villequier, c1832. From the Tate collection, London

Events in Madagascar: the repatriation of French troops, 1896. Artist: F Meaulle
Events in Madagascar: the repatriation of French troops, 1896. France invaded the independent island kingdom of Madagascar in 1895. By 1896 the island had been conquered and was annexed by France

Professor Lowes Balloon, c1859. Steamboat-powered airship for transatlantic flights. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers

London Bridge After The 1904 Widening, London, 20th Century. Built to a design by John Rennie in 1824-1831, this version of London Bridge was dismantled and sold to Lake Havasu City, USA in 1968

Boats on the Canal, 1873. Artist: Alfred Sisley
Boats on the Canal, 1873. From the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

Les Quais de Paris, 24 May 1871. View from the River Seine showing Paris in flames during the retaking of the city from the Paris Commune. From a series titled Paris et ses Ruines

US Mail Boat, 1870. Artist: Leila Bauman
US Mail Boat, 1870. From the Washington National Gallery of Art, USA

Steamboat on the Clyde near Dumbarton, c1814. Artist: William Daniell
Steamboat on the Clyde near Dumbarton, c1814. This early paddle steamboat travelling amongst sailing vessels was painted just a few years after the first trip of a steamboat in Europe

Henry Bells steam boat Comet of 1811, (1856). The Comet, 40ft long (12.19m), powered by a 3hp Boulton & Watt engine, was the first successful steam boat in Europe

French physicist Denis Papins, steamboat being wrecked, 1707 (1870)
French physicist Denis Papin s, steamboat being wrecked, 1707 (1870). The boatmen on the river Weser saw the boat powered by Papins (1647-1712)

Samuel Bakers boat hauled through river grass, 1864 (1874). Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, left Khartoum, Sudan

David Livingstone navigating the Zambezi, Africa, 1852-1864 (c1878). Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstones (1813-1873)

Naval battle on the Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, American Civil War, July 1862. The destruction of the Confederate flotilla by armoured Union gunboats

St Louis, Union gunboat, American Civil War, 1861-1865. The earliest ironclad gunboat designed by American engineer James B Eads (1820-1887) to be employed by the Union side

British emigrant ship being towed out of harbour before setting sail for Sydney, Australia. Certain skilled men and their families were given assisted passages

To the Rescue, war in the Sudan, 1885. British gunboats engaging the enemy on the way up the Nile to relieve General Gordon, besieged by the Mahdi at Khartoum

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