Items matching soldiers

206a2: Giant bird pulling a lizard

This is a detail from plate 206, “Entrance of Henry of Lorraine, marquess of Moy, under the name of Pirandre” from the series The Combat at the Barrier, 1627. Here we seem to have a number of soldiers [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, nudity, cherubs, soldiers, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-14

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There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)

This is the central image from There Sleeps Titania, with the architectural arch removed. There is also a magnified detail so you can see more clearly the fabulous technique of one of the greatest eng [...]

Keywords: people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, forests, snails, soldiers, royalty, shakespeare, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-22

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There Sleeps Titania

“From the Midsummer Night’s Dream. R. Huskisson. Pinx. Fred Heath. Sculp. The engraving shows Titania as a nearly-naked woman with a tiara of pearls, surrounded by her female maids-in-waiting. In the [...]

Keywords: people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, forests, snails, soldiers, royalty, shakespeare, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-22

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Sheridan’s Ride by T. Buchanan Read

“Sheridan’s next operations, however, were the most important, as they have become the most renowned, in his career. Passing through Strasburg [USA], he posted his troops on the further bank of Cedar [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, horses, swords, american civil war

Places shown: Strasburg; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2006-08-30

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Napoleon and the Sphinx

[Napoleon] was bent on the conquest of Egypt. He appears to have had something visionary in his temperament, and to have dreamed of founding a mighty empire from the stand-point of the East, the glow [...]

Keywords: monuments, people, horses, soldiers, deserts, mythological creatures

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-09-02

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The Easter Volunteer Review: The 1st Artillery on the March from London to Brighton

Soldiers on the march pause for a moment outside the local pub, which has a sign showing a lion; crowds have gathered to watch the troops pass, most on foot but some on horse-back, and with carts on w [...]

Keywords: soldiers, weapons, guns, cannons, street scenes, bare feet, people, children, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2007-04-07

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Behold it then! cried Perseus

“Behold it then!” cried Perseus, in a voice like the blast of a trumpet. King Polydectes has demanded to be shown the head of the Gorgon, which turns to stone all who gaze upon it. So the King is of [...]

Keywords: soldiers, mythology, illustrations for children, colour, bare feet, weapons, swords, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-10

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Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London

King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume. [King Charles I] had been foolish, he had been wicked, but now, in the face of death, he b [...]

Keywords: royalty, soldiers, people

Places shown: London

Added: 2009-05-05

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The shore was covered with men ready for battle

Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-05-06

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Cæsar crossing the channel.

“Cæsar [Caesar] first came to Great Britain on account of a bilious attack. On the way across the channel a violent storm came up. The great emporor and pantata believed he was drowning, so that in an [...]

Keywords: people, boars, soldiers, romans, cartoons, humour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-27

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The Discovery of Tin in Britain

A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin.

Keywords: people, boats, soldiers, weapons, romans, cartoons, humour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-10

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1274.—Moveable Towers of Archers, Cannon, etc.

(Royal MS. 14 Edw. IV) “A few words by way of appendage to this part of our subject may here be devoted to the subject of our engravings, representing the storming of a fort (Fig. 1251), the siege of [...]

Keywords: battles, castles, weapons, siege engines, archery, soldiers

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-18

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