1851 Collection

Robert Blatchford Socialist

Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror, 1845
Engraving of Captain Francis Crozier (1796-1848) of HMS Terror, pictured shortly before departing on the ill-fated Franklin Arctic expedition of 1845

Common Curlew (Morris)
COMMON CURLEW (Numenius arquata) Date: 1851

Royal Coat of Arms
The royal coat of arms of Queen Victoria

LANDSEER: STAG, 1851. Monarch of the Glen. After the painting by Edwin Landseer, 1851

Inside the Great Exhibition of 1851
The Great Exhibition of All Nations - general view of the interior of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London

MAP: IRELAND, 1851. An engraved map of Ireland, 1851

Augusta Ada Byron
AUGUSTA ADA BYRON daughter of the poet Byron, later countess Lovelace mathematician, arguably the worlds first computer programmer, aiding Babbage

England. London. The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton. Great
The Crystal Palace. Cast-iron and plate-glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London for Great Exhibition of 1851. Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865). Victoria and Albert Museum

Asylum Lodge, Devizes, Wiltshire
The entrance lodge to the County Lunatic Asylum at Devizes, Wiltshire opened in 1851. In 1924 it was renamed Wiltshire County Mental Hospital, then in 1948 renamed Roundway Hospital

Honiton Lace 1851
A fearsomely intricate example of Honiton (Devon) lacework, exhibited by Mrs Treadwin of Exeter at the Crystal Palace exhibition

County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Middlesex
The Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1851 at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex. It later became known as Colney Hatch Mental Hospital and then as Friern Hospital

Derby County Mental Hospital, Mickleover, Derbyshire
An aerial view of the Derby County Mental Hospital at Mickleover near Derby. It began life in 1851 as the Derbyshire County Lunatic Asylum, designed by Henry Duesbury

James Doughty, oldest clown in England
James Doughty of Brighton, at the time of this photograph the oldest clown in England, about to celebrate his 94th birthday. Seen here in costume with two of his performing dogs

Captain Sir John Franklin (1786-1847)
Engraving of Captain Sir John Franklin in his Royal Navy uniform, pictured shortly before departing on his ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845

Chough (Morris)
(Pyrrhocorax graculus) A resident of western England and Wales

View of the Great Exhibition from across the Serpentine
The Great Exhibition of All Nations in Hyde Park, London - general view of the Crystal Palace from across the Serpentine

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

Saltaire, model textile factory and town near Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Founded by Titus Salt (1803-1776) in 1851. Shops, library, etc

Prestwich Asylum, Lancashire
View of the Superintendents House at the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bury New Road, Prestwich, near Manchester, designed by Isaac Holden and opened in 1851

Crystal Palace Plan
A floor plan of the Exhibition building - the ground floor and the galleries, showing how the courts open out from the central transept

Verdi / Rigoletto / Liebig
The celebrated quartet from the last act

Kings Cross Station / 1895
A view of the platforms at the terminus for the Great Northern Railway, designed by the architect Lewis Cubitt, built in 1851-52

Swallow-Tailed Kite
AMERICAN SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (Elaboides furcatus)

Maps / Australia 1850S
Map showing the location of the GOLDFIELDS, so presumably made fairly soon after the start of the Australian Gold Rush in 1851

Brighton Pavilion 1851
A general view of the Brighton Pavilion Date: circa 1851

Birds / Tree Sparrow
TREE SPARROW (Passer montanus)

Grand Entrance to the Great Exhibition of 1851
The Great Exhibition of All Nations in Hyde Park, London - view of the Grand Entrance to the Crystal Palace, with people milling around

SINGER SEWING MACHINE. Description of Isaac M. Singers sewing machine on the front page of the " Scientific American", 1 November 1851

Belfast Quay (1851). Wilson, James Glen 1827-1863. Date: 1851

Sir George Newnes
SIR GEORGE NEWNES English publisher and Liberal MP

William H Lever
WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER 1ST VISCOUNT LEVER-HULME English soap manufacturer; built (1888-89) model industrial village of Port Sunlight

Chaffinch (Morris)
(Fringilla coelebs) Coelebs means bachelor, and refers to the birds habit of temporary separation from its mate

Magpie (Morris)
(Pica pica, or Pica Rustica)

Linnet (Morris)
(Carduelis cannabina)

Foucault Demo, 1851
Leon Foucault uses his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, at the Pantheon, Paris, 1851

Richard I / London Statue
RICHARD I, THE LIONHEART A statue of Richard I by Baron Marochetti at Crystal Palace in 1851

Carrion Crow (Morris)
CARRION CROW (Corvus corone)

Eliz Gaskell / Richmond
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL Writer, in 1851

Festivities at Beeston Castle, 1851
Festival at Beeston Castle, Cheshire, in aid of the widows and orphans of the Peckforton district of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Date: 1851

CRYSTAL PALACE, 1851. Interior view of the Crystal Palace, site of the Great Exhibition of 1851, at Hyde Park, London, England. English lithograph, c1851

Barlow?s patent double-action Jaquard loom, 1851. Exhib. Cat Date: 1851

The Asylum, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum, Abergavenny, opened in 1851, becoming the Monmouthshire Lunatic Asylum in 1897

ANCIENT JERUSALEM. The ancient city of Jerusalem, with Solomons Temple in the center. Lithograph, c1851

Crystal Palace, London, 1851
Visitors to the Crystal Palace industrial exposition, London, 1851. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

County Asylum, Mickleover, Derbyshire
The Derbyshire County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1851 at Mickleover near Derby

Birds / Cirl Bunting
CIRL BUNTING (Emberiza cirlus) A resident in the south of England

The Re-cut Koh-i-noor Diamond, 1852
Engraving of the re-cut Koh-i-noor ( mountain of light ) diamond, 1852

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin. " An enormous foam globe, on which reclined the little old gentleman." Date: First published: 1851

RACING YACHT: AMERICA, 1851. The schooner yacht America, built for the New York Yacht Club, 1851. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

ELEPHANT & HOWDAH, 1851. Embroidered housings and trappings of the elephant and howdah exhibited by Queen Victoria of Great Britain at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851

Union Workhouse, Leigh, Lancashire
Opened in 1851, the Union workhouse on Leigh Road, Leigh, Lancashire, later became Atherleigh Hospital. This early 1900s view focuses on the recently added workhouse offices and receiving home

Dean Mills Cotton Mill
Women working in the doubling- room at Dean Mills cotton-mill (between Bolton & Manchester, Lancashire)

CRYSTAL PALACE INTERIOR 1851
The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace: interior of the transept, looking north, with the Osler fountain and elm tree enclosed within the structure Date: 1851

USA, Oregon, Portland. Oaks Pioneer Church built in 1851. Credit as: Steve Terrill / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

A horrible business - Butchers shop, 1851
Humourous scene from a butchers shop, 1851. Master Butcher: " Did you take old Major Dumbledores ribs to No

THEATER: PANTOMIME, 1851. Scene from the pantomime, Oliver Cromwell; or, Harlequin Charley Over the Water and the Maid of Pattys Mill at the City of London Theatre in London. Engraving, English, 1851

IRISH IMMIGRANTS, 1851. Emigrants leaving Cork, Ireland, to change for the trans-Atlantic steamers, likely at Liverpool, England. Wood engraving from an English newspaper of 1851

J. W Walkers Organ at the Great Exhibition, 1851
An organ in the Tudor style, designed by Banks and Barry, adapted for a hall or music room. Date: 1851

THE BLOOMER COSTUME: lithograph, 1851, by Nathaniel Currier

Richmond, Surrey
Holidaymakers at Richmond, Surrey (now in the London Borough of Richmond), viewed from the Isleworth Meadows

Marriage of Baroness Burdett-Coutts to William Ashmead-Bartl
Engraving showing the marriage of Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) to William Ashmead-Bartlett (1851-1921) in Christ Church, Piccadilly, London, 1881

Justice Avory
Sir Horace Edmund Avory (1851-1935) was one of the most noted English criminal lawyers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was the most dreaded hanging judge of his age

The Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly Isles, 1858
Engraving of the Bishop Rock lighthouse, off the Scilly Isles, October 1858. The lighthouse was built between 1851 and 1858, to a design by Mr

Smithfield Cattle Show
Panoramic view of the Smithfield Club Cattle Show in London in 1851 showing men in stovepipe hats inspecting the numerous beasts on display

Lord Leverhulme
WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, baron LEVERHULME Popular Irish Influential industrialist

J R POINSETT 1779-1851
JOEL ROBERTS POINSETT American politician and diplomat, first U.S. Minister to Mexico (1825-29), bringing back the flower named for him

Fire-Crested Wren
FIRE-CRESTED WREN (Regulus ignicapillus) sometimes called the FIRECREST An irregular visitor to Britain

Amelia Bloomer, Originator of the New Dress - the first sight the British public received of the scandalous new attire for women

Crystal Palace 1851
The south transept, with a fountain in the foreground and showing how the exhibition was built around living trees

Wandsworth Prison / Letter
Built in 1851 and originally called the Surrey House of Correction. The inmates writing letters

Mayhew / Wandsworth Prison
Built in 1851 and originally called the Surrey House of Correction. This picture shows the adult school in the chapel on the separate system

Revolving Bookcase
This revolving bookcase holds fewer books for its floor- space than any conceivable design, but it could be handy for portfolios and outsize books that need to be flat

Crystal Palace B / W Ext
The exhibition hall with people, some on horseback, milling around in front of it

EIDER (MORRIS)
EIDER (Somateria mollissima) Mollissima means very soft, and this birds down is favoured for bedding. Date: 1851

Great Exhibition, 1851, Crystal Garden Polka (coloured engraving)
611331 Great Exhibition, 1851, Crystal Garden Polka (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Great Exhibition, 1851)

Opening ceremony by Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition 1851
25, 000 grangers and dignitaries with season tickets attending the grand opening by Queen Victoria on the 1st of May 1851 of the temporary glass structure, The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London

Battle of Jutland
A scene depicting an action during the Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916. William Lionel Wyllie, Ra Ri Re, (1851-1931)

CRYSTAL PALACE, 1851. Queen Victoria, left, opens the Great Exhibition, the first international industrial exhibition, at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, England, May 1851

John Bouvier
JOHN BOUVIER Italian born American lawyer of French parentage : he compiled a Law Dictionary. with his autograph Date: 1787 - 1851

/ Nightingale / Morris
(Luscinia megarhynchus) Date: 1851

Modern Athenians plate 6 - Edinburgh
John Jeffrey (1775-1848) the younger and only brother of Francis, Lord Jeffrey, facing Charles Kilpartick Sharpe (1781-1851) a long resident of Edinburgh, eccentric in ways and dress

Ballycotton Lighthouse, Cork, Ireland
Waves crash against the coastal rocks with Ballycotton lighthouse in the background at sunrise; Ballycotton, County Cork, Ireland

Womens fashions for May 1851
Womens Fashions for May 1851. 1851

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"1851: A Year of Exploration, Innovation, and Artistic Splendor" In 1851, the world witnessed a multitude of remarkable events that shaped history. Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror embarked on an ill-fated expedition in 1845, leaving behind a legacy of bravery and resilience. The Royal Coat of Arms stood as a symbol of strength and unity amidst turbulent times. An engraved map showcased Ireland's beauty in intricate detail, capturing its rich heritage and captivating landscapes. Meanwhile, inside the Great Exhibition of 1851, innovation thrived as Augusta Ada Byron unveiled her groundbreaking contributions to computing. England's capital city buzzed with excitement as Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace rose majestically against London's skyline—a testament to human ingenuity. Edwin Landseer's iconic painting "Monarch of the Glen" mesmerized art enthusiasts with its depiction of regal wildlife. Amidst progress and grandeur, mental health institutions like Asylum Lodge in Devizes and County Lunatic Asylum in Colney Hatch provided care for those struggling with their minds' afflictions. Nature enthusiasts marveled at the gracefulness of Morris' Common Curlew while Derby County Mental Hospital offered solace to individuals seeking healing. In this vibrant year, even entertainment had its place—James Doughty took center stage as England's oldest clown, bringing joy to audiences across the nation. As we reflect on 1851 today, let us remember it not just for its historical significance but also for the diverse tapestry it wove together—an era marked by exploration into uncharted territories both within ourselves and our world.