Chromolithograph Collection (page 31)

Form Up, No 2! Form Up!, British lancers at the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 1898. The rallying cry of Sergeant-Major Veysey after charge of 21st Lancers at Omdurman, 2 September 1898

Biplane Glider of Octave Chanute, c1896 (1910)
Biplane Glider of Octave Chanute c1896 (1910). French-born American engineer Chanute (1832-1910) and his team began experiments with gliders, including this example, in 1896

Nulli Secundus, first British military steerable balloon (dirigible), 1905-1907 (c1910). Nulli Secundus (Dirigible No. 2) was built at the British Army Balloon Factory in 1905

William Hensons Aerial Steam Carriage of 1843 (1910). Henson (1805-1888) and his partner John Stringfellow (1799-1883) managed to get a model of this steam-powered flying machine airborne

Antoinette monoplane of French aviator Hubert Latham, c1910
Antoinette monoplane of French aviator Hubert Latham, (1883-1912), c1910. In 1909 Latham made two unsuccessful attempts in his Antoinette to become the first to fly across the English Channel

Aders flying bird Eole ( Aole ), 1890 (c1910)
Aders flying bird Eole ( Aole ). This aeroplane was designed by the French aviation pioneer Clement Ader (1841-1925). It was steam-powered

Leon Gambetta, French politician about to escape besieged Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Leon Gambetta (1838-82), French Republican politician (in hat, centre) about to escape besieged Paris for Tours by balloon, 7 October 1870. Dictator of France for 5 months. [Paris, 1890]

Otto Lilienthal, German gliding pioneer & aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders
Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) German gliding pioneer and aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders. He made about 2, 000 flights before being killed

Henri Farman in the Farman biplane, French aviator and aircraft constructor, c1909. From set of cards on aviation published 1910. Chromolithograph

Baroness Raymonde Delaroche, first woman to hold pilots licence, 1909. On 3 Nov 1909 flew Voisin biplane 1, 000 yards. From set of cards on aviation published 1910. Chromolithograph

SP Langleys steam-powered model plane Aerodrome, c1896. SP Langley, American astronomer and aeronautical pioneer. Langleys steam-powered model plane Aerodrome. In 1896 Aerodrome 5 flew 3/4 mile

Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aeronaut, first recorded flight in Europe, 1906, (1915)
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), Brazilian aeronaut in his aeroplane of 1906, the machine in which he made first recorded flight in Europe (22 August 1906). Fitted with Antoinette engine

Samuel Franklin Cody, American-born British aviator, flying Cody Biplane c1909. Chromolithograph card of 1910

Coral reef surrounding a lagoon. Slow accumulation of substance from generations of corals was a phenomenon which Darwin used to support they theory of a long geological timescale

Centrifuge, 1882. Centrifuges are used to separate liquids from solids, or liquids from liquids of different density such as cream from milk. From Physics in Pictures by Theodore Eckardt

Distillation, 1882. Cross-section showing a furnace heating a still. Matter distilled is discharged through the beak of the alembic and is condensed in the worm that runs through the refrigerator

First ascent of Mongolfier hot air balloon, 21 November 1783. From chromolithgotraph postcard published c1910

Hamlet seeing his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. Artist: Robert Dudley
Hamlet seeing his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. From the Shakespeare play, Hamlet, Act l, Sc. IV. Chromolithograph illustration by Robert Dudley (fl.1858-93)

Charles George Gordon ( Chinese Gordon ), 1885
Charles George Gordon(1833-85), English soldier, called Chinese Gordon, 1885. Killed at Khartoum 26 January 1885 when forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city

Opening of the International Exhibition, 1862. At the Crystal Palace by Queen Victorias cousin, George, Duke of Cambridge. Chromolithograph, London, August, 1862

Interior of the Crystal Palace during the International Exhibition, 1862. Majolica fountain by Minton. Chromolithograph

Alexei Nicholaevitch Kouropatkin, Russian general, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Commanded Russian forces in Manchuria during Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Chromolithograph

Louis XIV proclaiming duc d Anjou King of Spain, War of Succession, (1700) 19th century. Chromolithograph

duc d Enghien leading French victory over Spanish, Thirty Years War, (1643) c1880. Battle of Rocroi (Rocroy), 19 May 1643. Late 19th century chromolithograph

Passengers joining a P&O liner in the Thames, c1890. Artist: P&O Pencillings
Passengers joining a P&O liner in the Thames, c1890. Embarking for a voyage through the Suez Canal to India, Australia or Japan

Part of Old London Bridge, c1600. Part of the bridge originally built between 1176 and 1209, showing the Middlesex (London) shore with (left)

William Lenthall, 17th century English parliamentarian and lawyer, c1843. Born at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Lenthall (1591-1662)

Scene from The Babes in the Wood, 1878. Artist: Randolph Caldecott
Scene from The Babes in the Wood, 1878. No burial these prettye babes/Of any man receives./Till Robin-redbreast painfully/Did cover them with leaves

Scene from The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen, c1879. Karen being given her first pair of red shoes by the shoemakers wife on the day her mother dies

Scene from The Babes (Children) in the Wood, 1878. Artist: Randolph Caldecott
Scene from The Babes (Children) in the Wood, 1878. These prettye babes, with hand in hand, /Went wandering up and downe. The Babes uncle has paid two ruffians to murder them

Scene from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe, c1850. Munchausen, recovering his silver casket which had bounced up to the moon

Queenstown / Cobh, harbour for Cork City
Queenstown/Cobh, the harbour for Cork City. Between 1845 and 1860 above 2.5 million people emigrated from Ireland through Cobh. Also last port of call the SS Titanic

David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer, 1849 (c1878). Livingstone (1813-1873), holding a childs hand, with attendants and an ox-drawn wagon arriving at Lake Ngami in Botswana

Illustration from a poster advertising a theatrical production of Uncle Toms Cabin, 1870. George, defending his wife and child from recapture

David Livingstone, 19th century Scottish missionary and African explorer, c1915. Livingstone (1813-1873) was the first European to discover the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river in central Africa

Justice to Dreyfus, 1898. Artist: Jean Baptiste Guth
Justice to Dreyfus, 1898. Cartoon of the French novelist Emile Zola (1840-1902) while he was taking refuge in England after being sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the campaign to obtain

Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer of Jewish extraction, 1899. A French army officer of Jewish extraction, Dreyfus (c1859-1935) was wrongly accused of handing secret documents to a German agent

St Sebastian, Christian martyr, mid 19th century. Sebastian (dc288) was a Captain of the Praetorian Guard. The Emperor Diocletian ordered his execution but the archers ordered to carry out the task

George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, British soldier, c1885. Artist: Richard Simkin
George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, British soldier, c1885. A cousin of Queen Victoria, the Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904) commanded a division in the Crimean War of 1853-1856

George Wishart, 16th century Scottish reformer and martyr, mid 19th century. Wishart (c1513-1546) on his way to trial before Archbishop Beaton, giving his purse to a beggar

Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of Turkey from 1861, 1869. Artist: James Tissot
Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of Turkey from 1861, 1869. At first liberal and westernising, Abd-ul-Aziz (1830-1876) became autocratic

Triumphal entry of Charles VII, King of France, into Paris, c1435. Charless (1403-1461) majestic entry into Paris preceded by his swordbearer, after the city was recaptured from the English

English family taking a meal in the station buffet at Boulogne, France, 1886. A poodle begs the children for food

English family travelling to France, 1886. An English family taking the air on deck crossing the English Channel on a steamer on their way to France for a continental holiday

Coronation and unction of a king, 13th century. The king depicted is probably Henry III of England (1207-1272), who was crowned at Gloucester in 1216 and at Westminster in 1220

Odin, 1890-1910. Artist: Delitz
Odin, 1890-1910. Scene from Richard Wagners (1813-1883) opera The Valkyrie, showing Odin, the king of the gods. Card published by the Liebig potted meat company

True Love, American Valentine card, 1908. Cupid, his bow held aloft, rides a swallow, a bluebird of happiness. In Roman mythology Cupid was the son of Venus

To My Valentine, American Valetine card, 1907. Cupid holds a heart pierced by an arrow. The flowers are forget-me-nots (Myosotis palustris)

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