1801 Collection

Jh Newman / Photo 1888
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Catholic convert, as cardinal

Map of the Dacian Empire and Roman provinces. Date: 1801

PAXTON, Joseph (1801-1865). Crystal Palace. 1851. First building with revolutionary modular, prefabricated design, and use of glass. Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London

Hyacinths, engraved by Warner afters Edwards, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807. Date: 1801

Puffing Devil locomotive, artwork
Puffing Devil locomotive. Diagrams and text explaining Richard Trevithicks (1771-1833) Puffing Devil steam locomotive

Jh Newman / Richmond 1844
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Catholic convert, at age 43

Chirk Viaduct
The Chirk Viaduct on the Shrewsbury & Chester Railway erected between 1846-1848 by Henry Robertson. Running alongside is the lower Chirk Aqueduct built 1801 by Telford

Banksia coccinea, 19th century C016 / 5535
Scarlet banksia (Banksia coccinea), 19th-century artwork. This artwork is from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Austrian botanical illustrator Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826)

Jh Newman / Whitlock
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN the Roman Catholic Cardinal in old age

Count D orsay / Maclise
COUNT ALFRED GUILLAUME GABRIEL D ORSAY French society leader in Paris and London. Wit, painter, sculptor, conversationalist and arbiter of fashion

3rd President of the United States. Stipple engraving, c1801, by Cornelius Tiebout
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826). 3rd President of the United States. Stipple engraving, c1801, by Cornelius Tiebout

Haitian military officer, holding a printed copy of the Cons
Print shows a Haitian military officer, holding a printed copy of the Constitution of 1801, standing opposite a bishop appealing to an image of God or Moses in the heavens

Fonthill Visited
Admiral Nelson visits William Beckford at Fonthill, Berkshire Date: 1801

Steel engraving by James Mitan, 1801, after the painting by John Trumbull
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, 1775. Steel engraving by James Mitan, 1801, after the painting by John Trumbull

THORNTON: DRAGON ARUM. The Dragon Arum (Dracunculus vulgaris Schott)

Coal Mine Machinery
Improved Machinery for working Coal Mines - devices for conveying the coal along the galleries and up the shafts

Beethoven / Clement
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN German composer Portrait in Vienna, 1801

Jh Newman / Elliott & Fry
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Catholic convert, subsequently a cardinal

Benedict Arnold
BENEDICT ARNOLD American military officer and traitor

Uranographia constellations, 1801 C013 / 8953
Uranographia constellations. This page of this star atlas shows Northern Hemisphere constellations

William Henry Seward
WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD American statesman Date: 1801 - 1872

BEETHOVEN: SONATA, 1801. A page from Sonata in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (also known as Moonlight Sonata ) by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1801

PARIS: BASTILLE DAY, c1801. The celebration of Bastille Day, 14 July, on the Avenue des Champs Elysees with spectators watching a balloon ascension in Paris, France. Etching, c1801

Domenico Cimarosa / Coltel
DOMENICO CIMAROSA Neapolitan composer

Gail Borden / Colour
GAIL BORDEN American inventor of condensed foodstuffs

Hc Kimball / Mormon / Cdv
HEBER CHASE KIMBALL Mormon leader, photographed at Salt Lake City in June 1866

Alfred Count D orsay
Alfred, COUNT D ORSAY artist, dandy and wit

Barry as Phaedra
ANN SPRANGER BARRY as Phaedra in the English adaptation of Racines Phedre

John (1801-1873). King of Saxony (1854-1873). Portrait. Engraving. Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

John (1801-1873). King of Saxony (1854-1873). Portrait. Engraving. Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

Sophie of Sweden (1801-1865). Princess of Sweden and Grand Duchess consort of Baden (1830-1852), by her marriage to Leopold I (1790-1852), Grand Duke of Baden (1830-1852). Portrait

Arabian camel or dromedary, Camelus dromedarius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Elk, Alces alces, specimen in the Leverian Museum
Elk (in Eurasia) or moose (in North America), Alces alces. From a specimen in the Leverian Museum. Elk, Cervus aces

Elk or moose, Alces alces
Elk (in Eurasia) or moose (in North America), Alces alces. Elk, Cervus aces

Java mouse-deer, Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain and red brocket
Java mouse-deer, Tragulus javanicus, Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain, Moschiola meminna, and the fawn of a red brocket, Mazama americana

Skeleton of a harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena. (Porpesse, Delphina phocaena). Copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Title page from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia
Title page with vignette of a deer fawn by Dr. George Shaw engraved by James Heath

Humpback whale and fin whale
Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, and fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus. Pike-headed mysticete, Balaena boops, and fin-backed mysticete, Balaena physalus

Anatomy of a harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena. (Porpesse, Delphina phocaena). Porpesse opened

Harbour porpoise and common dolphin
Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, and common dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Porpesse, Delphina phocaena

Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, vulnerable. Blunt-headed cachalot. Top: uncertain species, var. Physeter gibbosus, Schreber

Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Great mysticete. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Horned whale or unicorn narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Skull with two teeth from the Leverian Museum

Collared peccary and Buru babirusa
Collared peccary, Dicotyles tajacu, and Buru babirusa or Babiroussa des Moluques, Babyrousa babyrussa. Pecari, Sus tajassu, and babyroussa, Sus babyrussa

Red brocket and Java mouse-deer
Red brocket, Mazama americana (American musk deer) and Java mouse-deer, Tragulus javanicus, or lesser mouse deer, Tragulus kanchil (Pygmy musk deer)

Wild boar, Sus scrofa
Eurasian wild pig, wild boar, Sus scrofa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus

Domestic pig, Sus domesticus
Common hog, domestic pig, male boar and female sow, Sus domesticus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Common hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius
Common hippo or hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

South American tapir, Tapirus terrestris subsp. terrestris. Tapir, Tapir americanus

Plains zebra, Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchellii. Zebra, Equus zebra

Quagga, Equus quagga quagga, extinct. Subspecies of the plains zebra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Siberian musk deer or ciervo, Moschus moschiferus. Vulnerable. As Tibetan musk deer

Race horse, Equus ferus caballus
Race horse or thoroughbred Arabian, Equus ferus caballus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Yak, Bos grunniens. Yak of Tartary, Soora Goy in Hindostan. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Domestic horse and wild horse
Domestic horse, Equus ferus caballus, and wild or feral horse, Equus ferus, endangered

Muskox, Ovibos moschatus, male bull and female cow. Musk ox, Bos moschatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Wild water buffalo, Bubalus arnee. Endangered. Arnee, Bos arnee. From an illustration in Robert Kerr's Animal Kingdom

Zebu and Indian ox, Bos indicus
Zebu or humped cattle, Bos indicus, and Indian ox, Bos indicus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

American bison var. Bison bison
American bison or buffalo var. Bison bison. Bos taurus. Possibly the plains bison, Bison bison bison

Domesticated British horned cattle breeds. Common ox, Bos taurus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

American bison, Bison bison
American bison or buffalo, Bison bison. Bos taurus. Possibly the wood bison, Bison bison athabascae

European wood bison, Bison bonasus. European bison, Bos taurus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Guanaco, Lama glama subs. guanicoe. Lama guanicoe. Cervo-Camelus Jonst. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

African sheep or Cape sheep, Ovis aries guineensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia. Vulnerable. Bearded sheep, Ovis ornata. Taken from a print by Basan after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Oudry of a live specimen in the French king's menagery

Cretan sheep, Ovis aries strepsiceros. (Ovis strepsiceros). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Argali, Ovis ammon
Argali, wild sheep or mountain sheep, Ovis ammon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Jusas goat and angora goat
Judas goat, Bouc de Juda, Capra aegagrus var. reversa, and Angora or Ankara goat, Capra hircus angorensis. Long-horned whidaw goat, Capra reversa, and Angora goat, Capra angorensis

Common goat, male and female, Capra hircus
Common goat, domestic goat, male billie and female nanny, Capra hircus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Dama gazelle, Nanger dama, critically endangered. Also known as the addra gazelle or mhorr gazelle. Nanguer, Antilope dama

Alpine ibex, Capra ibex. Also known as the steinbock or bouquetin. Ibex, Copra ibex

Bluebuck, Hippotragus leucophaeus, extinct. Blue antelope, Antilope leucophaea

White-tailed gnu, Connochaetes gnou
Black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu, Connochaetes gnou. Gnou, Antilope gnu

Guanaco, Lama glama subsp. guanicoe (Lama guanicoe). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Nilgai, Boselaphus tragocamelus, male. Nilghau, Antilope picta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Egyptian dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas dorcas. Corine, Antilope corinna

Dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas. Flat-horned antelope, Antilope kevella. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Cape bushbuck and bohor reedbuck
Cape bushbuck, Tragelaphus sylvaticus, and bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca. Bosbock, Antilope sylvaticus, and ritbock, Antilope arundinacea

Springbok, male and female, Antidorcas marsupialis. Springer antelope, Antilope euchore

Blackbuck, male and female, Antilope cervicapra
Blackbuck or common antelope, male and female, Antilope cervicapra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Mongolian gazelle and nilgai
Mongolian gazelle or dzeren, Procapra gutturosa, and nilgai, Boselaphus tragocamelus. Chinese antelope, Antilope gutturosa, and Indostan antelope, Antiliope tragocamelus

Royal antelope, Neotragus pygmaeus, male and female. Pygmy antelope, Antilope pygmaea

Bushback, male, Tragelaphus scriptus. Harnessed antelope, Antilope scripta

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In the year 1801, a myriad of events unfolded, shaping history and leaving an indelible mark on various realms. Jh Newman's photograph from 1888 captures a glimpse of the past, allowing us to peer into the bygone era. As we explore further, a map depicting the vast Dacian Empire and Roman provinces transports us back to ancient times. Amidst these historical reflections, we encounter an intriguing artwork showcasing the Puffing Devil locomotive. Its revolutionary design revolutionized transportation forever. Meanwhile, vibrant hyacinths bloom in all their glory, reminding us of nature's timeless beauty. The majestic Chirk Viaduct stands tall as a testament to architectural brilliance and engineering prowess. Its arches gracefully span over picturesque landscapes, captivating all who behold it. Banksia coccinea takes center stage in another masterpiece from the 19th century - C016 / 5535 - capturing its intricate details for eternity. Jh Newman collaborates with Whitlock to immortalize this botanical wonder. Count D'Orsay poses elegantly alongside Maclise's brush strokes; their artistic collaboration producing a portrait that exudes sophistication and charm. A Haitian military officer proudly holds a printed copy of "The Cons, " symbolizing resilience and determination amidst tumultuous times. This image serves as a reminder of Haiti's rich history and struggle for independence. James Mitan skillfully engraves John Trumbull's painting onto steel plates in 1801 - an exquisite fusion of artistry that brings historical moments to life before our eyes. Cornelius Tiebout employs his mastery in stipple engraving to create an iconic representation of America's third President in all his statesmanship – forever preserving Thomas Jefferson’s legacy for generations to come. Lastly, William Ward breathes life into Peter Henderson's painting for Robert John Thornton’s "Temple of Flora. " The Dragon Arum emerges from the page, captivating us with its exotic allure.