Ferdinand Marie Vicomte De Lesseps Collection

Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: the first train, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: the first train, 1871. Railway tunnel - 3.7 km (8.5 miles) in length - in the European Alps, linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: workmen loading dromedaries, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: workmen loading dromedaries, 1869. 'The Engraving on our front page shows one or two groups of the fellahs, or native Egyptian labourers

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the Pelusian Plain, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the Pelusian Plain, 1869. 'The Maritime Canal is to extend from the newly-constructed artificial harbour of Port Said, on the Pelusian coast of the Mediterranean

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the cutting near Chalouf, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the cutting near Chalouf, [Egypt], 1869. 'The Chalouf cutting, which is situated near the south-eastern extremity of the Bitter Lakes

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the Harbour of Port Said, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the Harbour of Port Said and the Mediterranean entrance of the Canal, 1869. Map of '...the new artificial harbour [which] has been constructed by running

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the canal, with the small fresh-water canal, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the canal, with the small fresh-water canal, 1869. 'Vessels will be able to steam through, or be towed through

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Timsah, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Timsah, 1869. Lake Timsah '...[is] an inland basin...into which the waters of the Mediterranean have been admitted by the completion of the first half of

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Menzaleh, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Menzaleh, 1869. 'On leaving Port Said the canal enters Lake Menzaleh, through which the channel runs for twenty-nine miles

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: labourers removing earth, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal [in Egypt]: labourers removing earth, 1869. Workers on that '...great enterprise which now approaches its completion

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Ismailia and the fresh-water canal, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Ismailia and the fresh-water canal, [Egypt], 1869. A sketch '...by our Special Artist...of the Fresh-Water Canal at Ismailia

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: dredges and elevators at work, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal [in Egypt]: dredges and elevators at work, 1869. 'There is a different kind of mechanical apparatus, called the "drague a long couloir

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: breakwater at Port Said, and Mediterranean entrance... 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: breakwater at Port Said, and Mediterranean entrance to the canal, 1869. View from the sea of the new port and western breakwater

Fetes of the Viceroy of Egypt at Cairo: regatta at Ismailia, on Lake Timsah, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Fetes of the Viceroy of Egypt at Cairo: regatta at Ismailia, on Lake Timsah, 1869. 'The Viceroy of Egypt celebrated the anniversary of his accession, on January 18

Canal de Suez; Le Nord-Est Africain, 1914. Creator: Unknown
Canal de Suez; Le Nord-Est Africain, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

Ferdinand de Lessepps [sic], 1914. Creator: Unknown
Ferdinand de Lesseps, 1914. Designer of a Panama Canal project, and instigator of the construction of the Suez Canal

The recent inspection of the Panama Canal works by M De Lesseps, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The recent inspection of the Panama Canal works by M. De Lesseps - Reception of M De Lesseps in Cathedral Place, Panama, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33

Intermission of a premiere at the Comedie-Francaise, 1885. Creator: Edouard Joseph Dantan
Intermission of a premiere at the Comedie-Francaise, 1885

F. de Lesseps, c. 1876. Creator: Nadar
F. de Lesseps, c. 1876. Woodburytype, from the periodical "Galerie Contemporaine Litteraire, Artistique" (1876), volume 1

Portrait of Ferdinand Lesseps, 1850-1914. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Ferdinand Lesseps, 1850-1914. Former attribution Felix Bracquemond

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