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Types of Armour The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears, colour

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Added: 2004-02-22

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A Mameluke in Full Armour. Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

We have seen how deplorable was the condition of the country [1790s Egypt] at that time, drained by the greed of the Turkish Pacha and the Mameluke Beys; its population, which at the present day [1870 [...]

Keywords: people, costumes, soldiers, weapons, spears, swords, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2010-12-28

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80.—British and Roman Weapons. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantry [...]

Keywords: weapons, swords, shields, helmets, axes, spears, greyscale

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Added: 2007-08-25

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191.—Arms and costume of the Tribes on the Western Shores of the Baltic. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two young men are dressed as soldiers, with metal plate armour (or possibly leather armour). One has a spear or javelin, and the other a sword; both have shields and helmets. In the foreground a cur [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, weapons, spears, shields, greyscale

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Added: 2009-08-03

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193.—Costume of a Soldier. From Cotton MS. Tib. C. 6. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Cotton Manuscript Tiberius C. vi is a psalter from the 11th century. The soldier here has a beard pointy shoes (and striped socks I think), and carries a spear.

Keywords: soldiers, weapons, spears, costumes, beards, clipart, saxon england, greyscale

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Added: 2008-06-28

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Lantern-carrier London (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...]

Keywords: pepole, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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1251.—Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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 a town (Fig. 1252), and [...]

Keywords: castles, battles, people, towers, weapons, crossbws, spears, cannon, tents, soldiers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-24

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November Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A portly man sits astride a bearded centaur. The centaur is wearing a helmet and carrying a spear. The mean wears a monk’s tunic and is mopping his tonsured brow. A poem underneath the image: NOVEMBER [...]

Keywords: people, centaurs, spears, monks, calendars, months, november, colour

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Added: 2003-11-06

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