- A Cafe Chantant
- A Contest with the Longbow
A Contest with the Longbow - Alfred d Orsay
Alfred d Orsay - An absent desert - the Cromwell Road
An absent desert - the Cromwell Road - And transform long-haired students into members of the institute
- And you believe the guides
- Around some stately dignitary
- At Bruant's
- At the Black Cat
- At the Jardin de Paris
- At the Moulin Rouge
- Ball Costume 1825
Ball Costume 1825 - Beasts at the zoo
Beasts at the zoo - Benjamin D’Israeli
Benjamin D’Israeli - Burdett, Hume and O'Connell
Burdett, Hume and O'Connell - Citizen of Early tudor or Louis XI Period
Citizen of Early tudor or Louis XI Period - Citizens Dress of 1545
Citizens Dress of 1545 - Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII
Costume of Manservant - reign of Louis XIII - Court costume Louis XVI - about 1780
Court costume Louis XVI - about 1780 - Court Dress - Early 15th Century
Court Dress - Early 15th Century - Court Dress - Latter part of 13th Century
Court Dress - Latter part of 13th Century - Court Dress 1540 - Tudor or Francis I
Court Dress 1540 - Tudor or Francis I - Court Dress 1550 - Tudor or Francis I
Court Dress 1550 - Tudor or Francis I - Court Dress of 1390
Court Dress of 1390 - Court Dress of tudor or Louis XI Period
Court Dress of tudor or Louis XI Period - Crossbow and Arrows used for Sport
Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts. These were made of various sorts of wood; about a dozen trees were used for the purpose, but ash-wood was thought to be the best. Generally the arrows had a tip of iron, shaped like a pyramid, pointed, though for shooting at birds the top was sometimes blunt, so that a bird might be struck down without being badly wounded. One old writer says that a great difference between the long-bow and the crossbow was, that success did not depend upon who pulled the lock—a child might do this as well as a man—but with the long-bow strength was everything. In fact, during the Tudor times, the kings specially encouraged the archers to practise shooting with the long-bow, and people were even forbidden to keep crossbows. The crossbow, however, when it had reached perfection, carried much further than the ordinary long-bow. - Cumberland Hay-market
Cumberland Hay-market - Days of the pannier
Days of the pannier - Early days of the crinoline - 1855
Early days of the crinoline - 1855 - Edward Lytton Bulwer
Edward Lytton Bulwer - Elizabethan or Henry III - 1570
Elizabethan or Henry III - 1570 - Elizabethan or Henry III Period - showing Medicis Collar
Elizabethan or Henry III Period - showing Medicis Collar - Elizabethan or Marie Stuart Period - 1558 - 1600
Elizabethan or Marie Stuart Period - 1558 - 1600 - Evening dress of Directoire and early first Empire 1798 - 1804
Evening dress of Directoire and early first Empire 1798 - 1804 - Fashions for 1836 and 1837
Fashions for 1836 and 1837 - Flower Girl
Flower Girl - French Restoration period - 1823
French Restoration period - 1823 - French Soldier
- Gentleman of the early Louis XV Period
Gentleman of the early Louis XV Period - Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau - He placed the 'drum' on a chair, and practised diligently
What is to be done? Nothing could be more inconvenient. Easter-time, and so much new music to be played!' Master Frank Haydn, Master of the Orchestra at the parish church of Hamburg, in Southern Germany, all but tore his brown wig in his despair, at hearing of the death of the man who played the kettle-drum in his orchestra. 'I know of no one to take his place at such short notice,' he went on, though there were only his wife and little nephew to hear him. The nephew, Joseph Haydn by name, had only lately come into the choir-master's family. He was a child of six years old, but had already shown such wonderful musical genius, that his parents had decided to place him with his uncle, where he would have great opportunities for musical study. The little fellow now looked up from an old music book, for he could read music perfectly, and said timidly, 'I think I could manage the kettle-drum, uncle, if you would just show me a little how it should be played.' 'You, Joseph?' said the choir-master in surprise, as he looked down at the serious little face. 'It is not a violin, you know; if it were you could manage well enough, but you know nothing of kettle-drums.' 'Let me try, Uncle!' pleaded Joseph. Before long he had his wish, and both were in the big room over the church porch where the practices always took place. Joseph's little fingers seemed to hold the drum-sticks as if to the manner born, and after a short rehearsal of the music to be played on the festival, the old man felt an immense load lifted off his shoulders. 'Capital! capital!' he exclaimed. 'I shall not miss poor Schmidt now; your touch is crisper than his!' Then the door of the room was locked, and uncle and nephew returned home. Joseph, however, as Easter drew near, became very anxious, and longed for an opportunity for further practice on the drum. His fingers might not be skilful enough: he could be sure of the notes without practice, but could he handle the sticks properly? He dared not ask his uncle for leave to go into the choir-room, and he had no drum in the house. What could he do? Practise he must, or he would never feel sure of himself. 'I will make a drum!' said the little fellow; 'I have an idea.' There was a round basket in the out-house. It was generally used for flour, but it happened to be nearly empty now, and Joseph seized on this, as it was the shape of a drum; over it he stretched a clean dishcloth, fastening it as tightly as possible with string. 'It makes a beautiful drum!' he said joyfully, as he beat it with two sticks, and carrying his 'drum' into the parlour, he placed it on a chair, propped the music up in front of him, and practised the fingering diligently and noiselessly for an hour or more, till he felt quite sure of himself. Alas, for Joseph, however! He had been too absorbed in his drumming to notice the small quantity of flour which had been left in the basket. It was shaken out with each beat of the drum-sticks, and now lay thick on the velvet cover of the chair. Joseph got a whipping for his thoughtlessness, but that was nothing uncommon for children in the eighteenth century, and was soon forgotten. Easter arrived, and the little fellow played his drum so well, that for many years after he played that instrument in the choir. - Henry IV or early Stuart - 1600 - 1615
Henry IV or early Stuart - 1600 - 1615 - Henry IV or early Stuart Period
Henry IV or early Stuart Period - Hyde Park
Hyde Park - I have one picture in the salon
- Inside Columbin's
- Interested in the Winner
- James Hogg
James Hogg - John Baldwin Buckstone
John Baldwin Buckstone - John Galt
- John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart - John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker - King Louis leaped fully armed into the sea
But after some delay from contrary winds, and a long wait at Cyprus, the French army landed in Egypt, where the first attack was to be made; King Louis leaped, fully armed, from his galley into the sea in his eagerness to reach the shore. The Saracens fled at first before the invading army, and the city of Damietta was taken almost without a blow. There the Queen, who had followed her husband, as our good Queen Eleanor did a few years later, was left with a sufficient garrison while the army moved onwards up the Nile. - Late Empire - Ball dress and street costume
Late Empire - Ball dress and street costume - Later Louis XIV Period 1700 - 1715
Later Louis XIV Period 1700 - 1715 - Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt - Listening for the voice to speak his name once more
- Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham - Lord Byron
Lord Byron - Lord John Russell
Lord John Russell