Engraved Image Collection (page 6)

Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin, 1880 (engraving)
864843 Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin, 1880 (engraving); (add.info.: British overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) 1819-1822

Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
864515 Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856; (add.info.: Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. The Battle of Alma, 20 September 1854: River Alma, centre of picture

Charles Edward Cornwallis (1738-1805)
864497 Charles Edward Cornwallis (1738-1805); (add.info.: Charles Edward Cornwallis (1738-1805) first Marquis and second Earl Cornwallis. English soldier

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
864450 Michael Faraday (1791-1867); (add.info.: Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English chemist and physicist, left, and John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845) English chemist, physicist and meteorologist

Marple aqueduct
864428 Marple aqueduct; (add.info.: Marple aqueduct, opened 1800, over the River Goyt on the Peak Forest Canal which was constructed 1794-1805 from Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, to Marple)

Andrew Thomson (1779-1831)
864316 Andrew Thomson (1779-1831); (add.info.: Andrew Thomson (1779-1831) Scottish Presbyterian divine and popular Edinburgh minister and preacher

Thomas Thomson (1773-1852)
864315 Thomas Thomson (1773-1852); (add.info.: Thomas Thomson (1773-1852) Scottish chemist, born at Creiff, Perthshire. A disciple of Joseph Black

Portrait of C.E.S. Norton
864183 Portrait of C.E.S. Norton; (add.info.: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (born Sheridan - 1808-1877) English poet, novelist and pamphleteer

Robinson Crusoe and Friday, c.1790 (engraving)
864179 Robinson Crusoe and Friday, c.1790 (engraving); (add.info.: Robinson Crusoe and his companion Friday, left, with the English Captain whom he has helped to subdue the mutiny on his ship)

Assay laboratory for gold and silver, 1574 (engraving)
863685 Assay laboratory for gold and silver, 1574 (engraving); (add.info.: Assay laboratory for gold and silver. 1) Furnace: 2) Sheet of iron onto which assays are poured: 3) Parting flask

Refining gold
863684 Refining gold; (add.info.: Refining gold: furnaces, 2,2, and operator, 9. The man near 4 is gradually heating a crucible surrounded by a ring of burning coals)

Assaying of silver
863654 Assaying of silver; (add.info.: Assaying of silver: 1&3, moulds for making cupels: 2&4, the cupels: 8, man moulding cupels)

Portrait of Lewis Edward Nolan (1820-1854)
863913 Portrait of Lewis Edward Nolan (1820-1854); (add.info.: Lewis Edward Nolan (1820?-1854) English soldier; captain of Hussars and writer on cavalry

Portrait of James Simpson
863897 Portrait of James Simpson; (add.info.: James Simpson (1792-1868) British soldier; Chief of Staff in the Crimea in 1854 during the Crimean (Russo-Turkish War of 1853-1856)

Portrait of Omar Pasha (born Michael Latas)
863890 Portrait of Omar Pasha (born Michael Latas); (add.info.: Omar Pasha ( born Michael Latas 1806-1871) Croatian-born Ottoman general

Portrait of Claude Louis, Comte Berthollet
863885 Portrait of Claude Louis, Comte Berthollet by French School, (19th century); (add.info.: Claude Louis, Comte Berthollet (1748-1822) French chemist who assisted Lavoisier

Portrait of Georg August Schweinfurth
863883 Portrait of Georg August Schweinfurth; (add.info.: Georg August Schweinfurth (1825-1925) German explorer, botanist and anthropologist

Assaying copper
863653 Assaying copper; (add.info.: Assaying copper: Furnaces (1,4), ore (3), bellows (5), and aeolipile (6) to supply draught to furnaces. Pot in which flux is prepared (8)

Smelting copper
863647 Smelting copper; (add.info.: Smelting copper. From a 1683 English edition of Lazarus Ercker "Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten" originally)

Portrait of Juan Ponce De Leon
863863 Portrait of Juan Ponce De Leon; (add.info.: Juan Ponce De Leon (1460-1521) Spanish soldier and public servant who sailed with Columbus on his second voyage

Carrier pigeon used to carry dispatches out of Paris, 1870 (engraving)
863843 Carrier pigeon used to carry dispatches out of Paris, 1870 (engraving); (add.info.: Carrier pigeon used to carry dispatches out of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

Hayle, St Ives in the distance', ca 1860
863311 Hayle, St Ives in the distance', ca 1860; (add.info.: Hayle. St Ives in the distance', c1860. West Cornwall Railway, later part of the Great Western Railway (GWR)

Route of Trans - Siberian Railway
2603882 Route of Trans - Siberian Railway; (add.info.: The route of the Trans - Siberian Railway. From "La Nature", Paris, 1904. Engraving).

Portrait of James Boswell
865114 Portrait of James Boswell; (add.info.: James Boswell (1740-1795) Scottish man-of-letters. Biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Refining of silver
863651 Refining of silver; (add.info.: Refining of silver, showing (2) a test put into the furnace and (3) burning the silver in a test

Re-building of the Temple in Jerusalem, Illustration from the Dore Bible
3665456 Re-building of the Temple in Jerusalem, Illustration from the Dore Bible by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); (add.info.: Re-building of the Temple in Jerusalem, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866)

Adam and Eve banished from the Garden of Eden by an angel, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866
3665374 Adam and Eve banished from the Garden of Eden by an angel, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); (add.info)

Charles Pierre Baudelaire
2603669 Charles Pierre Baudelaire; (add.info.: Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) French poet, critic and translator. engraving after a photograph taken in 1864).

Portrait of James Weddell
672779 Portrait of James Weddell; (add.info.: James Weddell (Ostend, 24 August 1787 - 9 September 1834) was a British sailor

Portrait of Johann Friedrich Bottger, 1870 (engraving)
863886 Portrait of Johann Friedrich Bottger, 1870 (engraving); (add.info.: Johann Friedrich Bottger (1682-1719); German ceramacist who perfected European manufacture of porcelain at Dresden

Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
864517 Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856; (add.info.: Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. The British fleet in the Baltic. Engraving c1860. Shipping. Naval. Sail

The nativity, Birth of Christ in the manger, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 (engraving)
3665614 The nativity, Birth of Christ in the manger, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 (engraving) by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); (add.info.: The nativity, Birth of Christ in the manger)

Merchant using calculating table in form of abacus, 1630 (engraving)
2603870 Merchant using calculating table in form of abacus, 1630 (engraving); (add.info.: Merchant and his clerk using a calculating table built as a form of abacus)

Portrait of Daniel Defoe (print)
864210 Portrait of Daniel Defoe (print); (add.info.: Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731) English author, satirist and adventurer. Remembered now for his novels "Robinson Crusoe" (1719)

The Eddystone lighthouse, 1892 (engraving)
864294 The Eddystone lighthouse, 1892 (engraving); (add.info.: The Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England)

Portrait of Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant. 19th century (engraving)
672792 Portrait of Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant. 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 - 6 July 1893)

Expedition to search for North West Passage, 1880 (engraving)
864710 Expedition to search for North West Passage, 1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) British naval officer

Flooding at Tynewydd Colliery, 1880 (engraving)
864510 Flooding at Tynewydd Colliery, 1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Flooding at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda Valley, Wales, 11 April 1877)

Portrait of Mary Carpenter, 1870 (engraving)
863877 Portrait of Mary Carpenter, 1870 (engraving); (add.info.: Mary Carpenter (1807-77) English philanthropist born at Exeter, Devon. With her mother opened a school for girls in Bristol

"The Science Record" (New York, 1874)
2603655 "The Science Record" (New York, 1874).; (add.info.: Aids to drawing: The field camera' Sketching with the aid of a portable tent - type camera obscura)

Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
864513 Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856; (add.info.: Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1953-1863. The Russian governor of Kinburn Fortress guarding the Dnieper estuary surrendering to the Allies

Portrait of Louis Braille
865107 Portrait of Louis Braille; (add.info.: Louis Braille (1809-1852) French educationalist and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind using raised dots on paper

Portrait of Jan Laski
864187 Portrait of Jan Laski; (add.info.: Johannes a Lasco or Jan Laski (c1499-1560) Polish Reformation Protestant divine

Turtle illustration - Antique plate of the dutch book: Collection of foreign and rare birds, illustrated by George Edwards-1772 George Edwards (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773)

Gideon chooses his men, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 (engraving)
3665393 Gideon chooses his men, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 (engraving) by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); (add.info.: Gideon chooses his men, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866)

Abraham enters the land of Canaan, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866
3665391 Abraham enters the land of Canaan, Illustration from the Dore Bible, 1866 by Dore, Gustave (1832-83); (add.info.: Abraham enters the land of Canaan, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866)

Lambeth Palace, London, UK (engraving)
2603871 Lambeth Palace, London, UK (engraving) by Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-77) (after); (add.info.: Lambeth Palace, London, the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury)

Portrait of Richard B. Sheridan
864201 Portrait of Richard B. Sheridan by Reynolds, Joshua (1723-92) (after); (add.info.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist and Whig politician

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"Unveiling the Past: A Glimpse into History through Engraved Images" Step back in time with an antique map of Queensland, Australia, showcasing its rich heritage and captivating landscapes. Marvel at a rare British broadsheet illustration, meticulously hand-colored to bring life to historical events. Delve into the world of education as you explore "The Preparatory School for Young Ladies, " a timeless engraving that captures the pursuit of knowledge. Transport yourself to the 19th century with a portrait of Galileo Galilei, skillfully engraved to immortalize his contributions to science. Witness the harrowing tale of two men lost in the Australian bush, their struggle depicted through intricate engravings that evoke empathy and curiosity. Experience profound moments from biblical narratives as Ezra laments in prayer or Judas Maccabeus stands before Nicanor's army. Observe Elie smashing idols or witness the strength of The Mother of Maccabees - all vividly illustrated within pages from the Dore Bible. Immerse yourself further into history as Zechariah's vision unfolds before your eyes - behold the Four Horsemen galloping towards destiny. Discover Henry Burton's legacy through an exquisite engraving that pays homage to his influential life during tumultuous times. Finally, witness Daniel's confrontation with priests of Baal; feel his unwavering determination etched onto paper by skilled hands. These engraved images serve as portals connecting us with our past - windows into worlds long gone but never forgotten. Let these engravings be reminders that history is not just words on a page but living stories waiting for us to unravel their mysteries and learn from their lessons.