Images Dated 31st October 2006 (page 7)

Ambrose Burnside, Union Army general in the American Civil War, 1862-1867. Artist: G Stodart
Ambrose Burnside, Union Army general in the American Civil War, 1862-1867. Burnside (1824-1881) commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Fredericksburg

Charge of General Smiths Division, Capture of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 1862-1867. Artist: Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Charge of General Smiths Division, Capture of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 1862 (1862-1867). Brigadier-General Charles Ferguson Smiths Union troops on the attack during the Battle of Fort Donelson

Andrew Hull Foote, American Civil War admiral, 1862-1867. Artist: G Stodart
Andrew Hull Foote, American Civil War admiral, 1862-1867. Foote (1806-1863) served in the Union Navy in the American Civil War

Death of General Felix Zollicoffer, Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky, 19 January 1862, (1862-1867). Artist: R Dudensing
Death of General Felix Zollicoffer, Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky, 19 January 1862, (1862-1867). The Confederate Brigadier-General Zollicoffer was killed whilst attacking Union positions

General Don Carlos Buell, US Army officer, 1862-1867. Artist: Brandy
General Don Carlos Buell, US Army officer, 1862-1867. Buell (1818-1898) was a general in the Union (northern) army in the American Civil War

General GB McClellan, American Civil War major general, 1862-1867. Artist: Felix Octavius Carr Darley
General GB McClellan, American Civil War major general, 1862-1867. George B McClellan (1826-1885) was commanding general of the Union army in the early part of the American Civil War

Fleet passing the fort and obstructions, Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, (1862-1867)
Fleet passing the fort and obstructions, Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, (1864-1867). The Battle of Mobile Bay saw a Union fleet commanded by Admiral David Farragut defeat a much smaller

Cumaean Sibyl prophesied the Birth of Christ, 1743. Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)
Cumaean Sibyl prophesied the Birth of Christ, 1743. Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Cumaean Sibyl prophesied the Birth of Christ, 1738. Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)
Cumaean Sibyl prophesied the Birth of Christ, 1738. Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Ryde from the pier, Isle of Wight, 19th century. View of the town of Ryde with people promenading on the pier

The Brewers Drayman, 19th century

Temple of the Giants, Sicily, 19th century. This may be the ancient Greek temple of Jupiter Olympius or Olympian Zeus at Agrigento

Missel Thrush, 19th century. Artist: Henrik Gronvold
Missel Thrush, 19th century

Harlequin, c1880-1930. Artist: Henry Gerbault
Harlequin, c1880-1930

Stratford Church, Warwickshire, England, 1845. Interior of the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, with a monument to William Shakespeare visible through the doorway

The Parsons Daughter, 19th century. Artist: H A O Mackenzie
The Parsons Daughter, 19th century

Dr Syntax Loses his Money at the Race Ground at York, 1813. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax Loses his Money at the Race Ground at York, 1813

The Army of Vassily before Moscow, 19th century

Jefferson Davis, statesman and advocate for American slavery, 1862-1867. After announcing the secession of Mississippi from the Union (the second state to do so after South Carolina) in January 1861

Charleston, South Carolina, 1862-1867. Artist: W Ridgway
Charleston, South Carolina, 1862-1867. Charleston is the capital of South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union in the build-up to the American Civil War

Stephen A Douglas, American politician, 1862-1867. Douglas (1813-1861) was a leading figure in Congress in the 1850s and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that established the right of settlers in

President Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 1862-1867. Artist: JC McRae
President Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 1862-1867. The 16th president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 1862-1867. Fort Sumter was the place where the opening shots of the American Civil War were fired, on 12 April 1861

General Winfield Scott, United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate, 1862-1867. Scott (1786-1866) played a major role in the Mexican War (1846-1848)

Thanks, vintage French postcard, c1900

Spring, vintage French postcard, c1900

Lidia, vintage French postcard, c1900

Friendship, Vintage French postcard, c1900

Divorce, vintage French postcard, c1900

Married, vintage French postcard, c1900

Fiance, vintage French postcard, c1900

Italian infantry soldier, 1914-1918

A scene from Macbeth, c17th century

Southwark Fair, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
Southwark Fair, 1733. A crowd is enjoying the festivities in Borough High Street, near St George the Martyr, Southwark, London

The Bubblers Medley, or a Sketch of the Times, 1720. Shares in the South Sea Company rose through overheated speculation causing the South Sea Bubble

The High Mettled Racer, 1789. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
The High Mettled Racer, 1789. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

Time smoking a picture, 1761. Artist: William Hogarth
Time smoking a picture, 1761. Subtitled As Statues moulder into Worth, a comment on the 18th-century idea that decay and patina were somehow evidence of genuine origin and true age

The Distrest Poet, 1740. Artist: William Hogarth
The Distrest Poet, 1740. A poor poet, at work in his garret, is interrupted by a milkmaid demanding payment. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 19th century. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873) was President of the French Second Republic from 1849 until 1852

Alice Bridgenorth, a character in Walter Scotts novel Peveril of the Peak, 1833. Alice Bridgenorth is a Roundheads daughter in the novel which was published in 1822

The Enraged Musician, 1741. Artist: William Hogarth
The Enraged Musician, 1741. A musician is unable to concentrate because of the din outside in the street, which emanates from an oboe player, a dustman, knife-grinder, milkmaid crying her wares

If musicks charms can hearts enthral, 1730. Artist: E Heemskirck
If musicks charms can hearts enthral, this consorts sure above em all. How sweet the sound where cats and bears, with brutish noise offend our ears, just so the foreign singers move

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, 18th century Scottish lawyer and diarist, 19th century. Boswell (1740-1795) is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson

James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States, 1862-1867. Buchanan (1791-1868) was president from 1857 until 1861. His presidency saw the issue of slavery dominate politics

Vintage French postcard, c1900

French WWI postcard, 1914-1918

French WWI postcard, 1914-1918

French WWI postcard, 1914-1918

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