Edmund William Evans Collection

The Procession to the Mausoleum, 1857. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Procession to the Mausoleum, 1857. Funeral of John Henry Manners, the fifth Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire

Capture of Bocca Tigris Forts by the English Squadron - the Attack on North and South Wantung, 1857
The War with China - Capture of Bocca Tigris Forts by the English Squadron - the Attack on North and South Wantung, 1857. Encounter, North Wantung, Nankin, South Aminghoy, Hornet, South Wantung

Sketches from Naples - Castle of Ischia, 1857. Creator: Edmund Evans
Sketches from Naples - Castle of Ischia, 1857. On the north and west the island slopes gradually down to the sea, and terminates in a beach; while on the south

Wreck of "The George Lord", off the Isle of Wight, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
Wreck of "The George Lord", off the Isle of Wight, 1856. Ship bound for London, ...laden with a valuable cargo of fruit from Zante

New Aqueduct at Trieste - Present State of the Works, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
New Aqueduct at Trieste - Present State of the Works, 1856. Of late years, in consequence of the extension of its suburbs and the increase of its population from ten to sixty thousand

New Aqueduct at Trieste - the Machine Rooms, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
New Aqueduct at Trieste - the Machine Rooms, 1856. Of late years, in consequence of the extension of its suburbs and the increase of its population from ten to sixty thousand

His Royal Highness Prince Albert laying the Foundation-Stone of the Strangers Home, near Limehouse Church, 1856. Founding of a building...affording all the comforts

The Peace Commemoration at Brighton - Fireworks on the Chain Pier, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Peace Commemoration at Brighton - Fireworks on the Chain Pier, 1856. Report in the "Brighton Herald" newspaper of celebrations marking the end of the Crimean War....signal rockets were

Elm-Tree blown down in Hyde-Park, May 7th, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
Elm-Tree blown down in Hyde-Park, [London], May 7th, 1856. During the high wind of Wednesday afternoon...a venerable elm-tree fell a victim to its fury

"Ravine in Glen Tilt" - painted by W. Bennett - from the Exhibition of the New Society of Painters i Creator
"Ravine in Glen Tilt" - painted by W. Bennett - from the Exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1856

The Naval Review: Promenade on Southsea Common - sketched by S. Read, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Naval Review: Promenade on Southsea Common - sketched by S. Read, 1856. Crowds flock to the Hampshire coast to watch a display by the Royal Navy

Sharpham, on the Dart, Devon - the Largest Rookery in England, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
Sharpham, on the Dart, Devon - the Largest Rookery in England, 1856. Bird-shooting in the English countryside:..the river, owing to its surpentine eccentricities

Visit of Prince Albert to Colchester - Arrival of His Royal Highness and Staff at Wavenhoe Park
Visit of Prince Albert to Colchester - Arrival of His Royal Highness and Staff at Wavenhoe [sic] Park, 1856. Royal visit

The Naval Review: the Queen's Yacht passing Fort Monckton - drawn by S. Read, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Naval Review: the Queen's Yacht passing Fort Monckton - drawn by S. Read, 1856. Queen Victoria attends a display by warships of the Royal Navy off the coast of Hampshire

The Grand Naval Review, at Spithead: Excursionists on the Floating-Bridge at Portsmouth, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Grand Naval Review, at Spithead: Excursionists on the Floating-Bridge at Portsmouth, 1856. Sightseers flock to see a display of Royal Navy ships off the Hampshire coast

Sunday Morning; from "The Lump of Gold", by Charles MacKay, drawn by Samuel Read, 1856. Embower'd amid the Surrey Hills The quiet village lay

Valerian Through Volkamenia, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers, published 1884. Probably by Edmund Evans after Kate Greenaway

Decorative Illustration, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers, published 1884. Probably by Edmund Evans after Kate Greenaway

Conversazione of the Educational Exhibition, in St. Martin's-Hall, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Conversazione of the Educational Exhibition, in St. Martin's-Hall, 1854. Prince Albert visits a display in London: The most careless person can there see at a glance the various merits of

The Christmas Guest, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Christmas Guest, 1854. Children watch a robin on the sill of an open window. From "Illustrated London News", 1854

The Mistletoe Seller, drawn by Foster, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Mistletoe Seller, drawn by Foster, 1854. Illustration to a story by Angus B. Reach. There he goes, on the foggy December night, over the crunkling snow, the old Mistletoe-seller

Christmas Trees in Covent Garden Market, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Christmas Trees in Covent Garden Market, 1854. People buying Christmas trees in London. From "Illustrated London News", 1854

Cutting the Ashen Fagots; Devonshire, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Cutting the Ashen Fagots; Devonshire, 1854. Old English Christmas tradition. A faggot (large log or a bundle of ash sticks) is bound with nine green lengths of ash bands or beams

The Chateau Lafitte, Medoc, near Bordeaux, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Chateau Lafitte, Medoc, near Bordeaux, 1854. Wine-making estate in France. At first, I was dainty in my selection of the grapes to be chosen, eschewing the underripe and the over-ripe

The City of Bordeaux, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
The City of Bordeaux, 1854. Wine-growing in France....in these parts it is within the reach of all purses; the meanest labourer, in fact, can take it at all his meals

The Great Fires, at Newcastle and Gateshead - sketched from the High-Level Bridge, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Great Fires, at Newcastle and Gateshead - sketched from the High-Level Bridge, 1854. Massive explosion after a warehouse fire

Sebastopol - from an original drawing, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Sebastopol - from an original drawing, 1854. Crimean War. Warships on the Black Sea near the port of Sebastopol. The Siege of Sevastopol was the subject of Crimean soldier Leo Tolstoy's

Interior of the Grand Opera-House, at Paris, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Interior of the Grand Opera-House, at Paris, 1854. The aspect of the Salle on first entering strikes principally from its extreme gorgeousness and brilliancy. It seems one gigantic mass of gold

Buxton - The Crescent, New Baths, etc, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Buxton - The Crescent, New Baths, etc, 1854. Derbyshire spa town:..one of the most celebrated watering-places in England for the cure of gout

"The Bay of Uri, Lake of Lucerne" - painted by W.C. Smith - from the Exhibition of the... 1854
"The Bay of Uri, Lake of Lucerne" - painted by W.C. Smith - from the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1854. 1854

Watering-Places of England - Torquay, from the Road ot Dartmouth, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Torquay, from the Road ot Dartmouth, 1850. "The general character of the climate of this coast is soft and humid

Watering-Places of England - Folkestone, Kent, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Folkestone, Kent, 1850. Whoever turns to the Second Volume of our Journal, may there see how Folkestone started in the year 1842 from a little town of narrow streets

Watering-Places of Devon - Exmouth, from Starcross, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of Devon - Exmouth, from Starcross, 1850. Exmouth...is the oldest watering- place in the country, and was one of the principal ports of Devonshire in the reign of King John...An

Watering-Places of Devon - Sidmouth, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of Devon - Sidmouth, 1850. Sidmouth...lies picturesquely sheltered. The beach is nearly in the centre of one of those hollows or curves which are abundant within the vast bay of Devon

Country Road Scene in Winter - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Country Road Scene in Winter - drawn by Foster, 1850. A carter pulls to one side for a stagecoach with schoolboys travelling home for the Christmas holidays

Snow-Sweepers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Snow-Sweepers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Illustration to a story by Thomas Miller. "Clear your snow away, marm? do it for a penny

The Grocer's Shop at Christmas - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Grocer's Shop at Christmas - drawn by Foster, 1850. Shoppers queuing to buy dried fruit to make plum puddings. Illustration to a story by John Oxenford

Ramsgate Harbour, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Ramsgate Harbour, [Kent], 1850. Early in the present century, a stone lighthouse was erected on the west pier...The harbour includes an area of forty-eight acres

Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Horse racing in Yorkshire. The Meeting attracted an immense and very respectable assemblage

Frozen-Out Gardeners and Snow Clearers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Frozen-Out Gardeners and Snow Clearers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Illustration to a story by Thomas Miller. During winter, gardeners couldn't work because of the cold weather

Railway Viaduct over the Tweed, at Berwick, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Railway Viaduct over the Tweed, at Berwick, 1850. The Royal Border Bridge connecting the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway with the North British Line

All A-Blowing! All A-Growing!, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
All A-Blowing! All A-Growing!, 1850. Illustration to "Spring-Time in London", a story by Thomas Miller. "All a-blowing! all a-growing

Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Owing to the clearness of the water, and the gradual declivity of the shore

A Song of Spring, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
A Song of Spring, 1850. Sheet music with bucolic scene. Poetry by Desmond Ryan, Esq. Music by Edward Lorder. Child of the Seasons, blithesome Spring, That hope to all on earth dost bring!'

Watering-Places of England - Clifton, from Leigh Wood, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Clifton, from Leigh Wood, 1850. Clifton, near Bristol, differs from the other watering-places in being far distant from the sea

In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, 1870. Creator: Edmund Evans
In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, 1870. [The Fairy Queen takes an airy drive in a light carriage, a twelve-in-hand, drawn by thoroughbred butterflies]

Fathers gone a hunting, c1880. Creator: Edmund Evans
Fathers gone a hunting, c1880. Scene from the childrens nursery rhyme: Bye, Baby Bunting, Fathers gone a hunting, Gone to fetch a Rabbit-skin To wrap the Baby Bunting in

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