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Fifty Years Ago

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Walter Besant
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A richly detailed portrait of British society at the moment of Queen Victoria's accession, surveying political life, urban and rural customs, and the expanding empire. Chapters treat the year 1837, London streets, class relations, domestic routines, schooling, entertainments, clubs and journalism, sport, industry and mining, scientific pursuits, and law and justice, the latter contributed by a legal colleague. The text contrasts lingering eighteenth-century habits with nineteenth-century innovations such as steam, railways, and telegraphy, using anecdotes and contemporary illustrations to illuminate manners, institutions, and everyday objects while reflecting on social change.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATES.
The Princess Victoria in 1830. From the Picture by Richard Westall, R.A., at Windsor Castle Frontispiece
Windsor Castle Vignette
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Queen Victoria in 1839. From a Drawing by R. J. Lane, A.R.A. 1
Thomas Carlyle. From the Fraser Gallery 16
The Queen’s First Council—Kensington Palace, June 20, 1837. From the Picture by Sir David Wilkie, R.A., at Windsor Castle 18
A Show of Twelfth-Cakes. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 20
Greenwich Park. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 22
The Chimney-Sweeps’ Annual Holiday. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 24
Beating the Bounds. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 26
Bartholomew Fair. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 28
Vauxhall Gardens. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 30
In Fleet Street. Proclaiming the Queen. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 56
Leigh Hunt. From the Fraser Gallery 64
John Galt. From the Fraser Gallery 86
The Queen receiving the Sacrament after her Coronation. Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. From the Picture by C. R. Leslie, R.A., at Windsor Castle 94
Theodore Hook. From the Fraser Gallery 100
The Countess of Blessington. From the Fraser Gallery 110
Count d’Orsay. From the Fraser Gallery 112
Sydney Smith. From the Fraser Gallery 116
John Baldwin Buckstone. From the Fraser Gallery 126
Thomas Noon Talfourd. From the Fraser Gallery 128
Mary Russell Mitford. From the Fraser Gallery 130
Sir Walter Scott. From the Fraser Gallery 132
Lord Lyndhurst. From the Fraser Gallery 138
William Cobbett. From the Fraser Gallery 140
Lord John Russell. From the Fraser Gallery 144
Edward Lytton Bulwer. From the Fraser Gallery 148
Benjamin D’Israeli. From the Fraser Gallery 150
Thomas Campbell. From the Fraser Gallery 176
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From the Fraser Gallery 182
William Wordsworth. From the Fraser Gallery 184
Rev. William Lisle Bowles. From the Fraser Gallery 186
Pierre-Jean de Béranger. From the Fraser Gallery 188
James Hogg. From the Fraser Gallery 190
Regina’s Maids of Honour. From the Fraser Gallery 192
Harriet Martineau. From the Fraser Gallery 194
William Harrison Ainsworth. From the Fraser Gallery 196
The Fraserians. From the Fraser Gallery 198
John Gibson Lockhart. From the Fraser Gallery 200
Samuel Rogers. From the Fraser Gallery 202
Thomas Moore. From the Fraser Gallery 204
Lord Brougham and Vaux. From the Fraser Gallery 206
Washington Irving. From the Fraser Gallery 208
John Wilson Croker. From the Fraser Gallery 210
Cockney Sportsmen. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 218
Return from the Races. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 220
Sir John C. Hobhouse. From the Fraser Gallery 226
A Point of Law. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 238
Michael Faraday. From the Fraser Gallery 258
WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT.
Arrival of the Coronation Number of ‘The Sun’ 2
Lifeguard, 1837 4
General Postman 6
Napoleon at Longwood. From a Drawing made in 1820 12
London Street Characters, 1837. From a Drawing by John Leech 14
5 Great Cheyne Row. The House in which Carlyle lived from 1834 to his Death in 1881 16
The Duchess of Kent, with the Princess Victoria at the Age of Two. From the Picture by Sir W. Beechey, R.A., at Windsor Castle 17
William IV. From a Drawing by HB. 18
Peeler 20
The Spaniards Tavern, Hampstead 22
Sir Robert Peel 24
A Parish Beadle. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’ 26
Evening in Smithfield. From a Drawing made in 1858, at the Gateway leading into Cloth Fair, the Place of Proclamation of Bartholomew Fair 28
Fireman 31
Hackney Coachman. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’ 34
The First London Exchange 34
The Second London Exchange 35
The Present Royal Exchange—Third London Exchange 35
Charing Cross in the Present Day. From a Drawing by Frank Murray 37
Temple Bar 38
The Royal Courts of Justice 39
Lyons Inn in 1804. From an Engraving in Herbert’s ‘History of the Inns of Court’ 41
Kennington Gate—Derby Day 42
The Old Roman Bath in the Strand 43
London Street Characters, 1827. From a Drawing by John Leech 46
The King’s Mews in 1750. From a Print by I. Maurer 47
Barrack and Old Houses on the Site of Trafalgar Square. From a Drawing made by F. W. Fairholt in 1826 48
The Last Cabriolet-Driver. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘Sketches by Boz’ 49
A Greenwich Pensioner. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’ 52
An Omnibus Upset. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 53
Exeter Change 54
The Parish Engine. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘Sketches by Boz’ 56
Crockford’s Fish Shop. From a Drawing by F. W. Fairholt 57
Thomas Chatterton 60
Third Regiment of Buffs 63
Douglas Jerrold. From the Bust by E. H. Bailey, R.A. 64
John Forster. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry 65
Charles Dickens 66
The Darby Day. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’ 76
Newgate—Entrance in the Old Bailey 77
In the Queen’s Bench 79
George Eliot. From a Drawing in ‘The Graphic’ 86
La Pastourelle 89
Fashions for August 1836 98
Fashions for March 1837 98
Watchman. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’ 101
A Scene on Blackheath. From a Drawing by ‘Phiz’ in Grant’s ‘Sketches in London’ 105
Maid-Servant. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’ 107
Officer of the Dragoon Guards 111
A Sketch in the Park—The Duke of Wellington and Mrs. Arbuthnot 115
Linkman 117
William Makepeace Thackeray 123
Liston as ‘Paul Pry.’ From a Drawing by George Cruikshank 128
Charles Reade 130
T. P. Cooke in ‘Black-eyed Susan’ 132
Vauxhall Gardens 133
The ‘New’ Houses of Parliament, from the River 138
Lord Melbourne 140
Thomas Babington Macaulay 141
Lord Palmerston 142
Burdett, Hume, and O’Connell. From a Drawing by HB. 143
Daniel O’Connell 146
O’Connell taking the Oaths in the House. From a Drawing by ‘Phiz’ in ‘Sketches in London’ 147
Edmund Kean as Richard the Third 161
Old Entrance to the Cock, Fleet Street 163
The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark 173
Sign of the Swan with Two Necks, Carter Lane 174
Sign of the Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet Street 174
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall 176
United University Club, Pall Mall 177
Crockford’s, St. James’s Street 179
Charles Knight. From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullins 184
Robert Southey 185
Thomas Moore 186
‘Vathek’ Beckford. From a Medallion 187
Walter Savage Landor. From a Photograph by H. Watkins 188
Ralph Waldo Emerson 189
Lord Byron 190
Sir Walter Scott 191
A Fashionable Beauty of 1837. By A. E. Chalon, R.A. 193
Lord Tennyson as a Young Man. From the Picture by Sir T. Lawrence, R.A. 196
Matthew Arnold 200
Charles Darwin 201
Holland House 203
Letting Children down a Coal-Mine. From a Plate in ‘The Westminster Review’ 225
Children Working in a Coal-Mine. From a Plate in ‘The Westminster Review’ 229
London Street Characters, 1837. From a Drawing by John Leech 231
Marshalsea—The Courtyard. From a Drawing by C. A. Vanderhoof 239

QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1839.

(From a Drawing by R. J. Lane, A.R.A.)