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OrnamentThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a knight’s helmet with a sword and arrows.

Keywords: weapons, ornaments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-06-15

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Types of ArmourThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (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

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-22

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Machines of War and Castle DiagramThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The entire plate. The other images here are all details from this plate, but at much higher resolution. These are all described as weapons used in attacking (or defending) castles. There is also an an [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, weapons, siege engines, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Ballista (Balista)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A ballista together with darts for the ballista and a winch for bending the ballista. This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Machines of War overviewThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is the bottom half of the diagram shown in the Machines of War plate. The individual machines are in separate illustrations here.

Keywords: diagrams, weapons, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Moveable Tower with Bridge and Battering Ram.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Catapulta [Catapult]The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The lettered parts are explained in the text of the book. This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-03-02

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A Siege of the Fifteenth CenturyCastles (1926)

From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan’s Museum. The [castle] walls, having ben breached by the artillery, are being stormed through the breaches; the stormers are covered by t [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, people, weapons, soldiers, towers

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-13

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Battle of KnightsGaskonští Kadeti (1906)

Men are being nasty to one another, as men are wont to do, some on foot and some riding horses, in this close mêlée or fight.

This is a detail from the title page.

Keywords: battles, sketches, drawing, men, people, horses, soldiers, weapons, swords, fights, hats, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Gascony; France

Added: 2024-12-01

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Withdrawal from TroyHomer’s Odyssy7 (1895)

This wood-engraving is the frontispiece at the beginning of the book. It is very large, and has an ornate border round it.

Keywords: soldiers, ancient greece, greek mythology, ruins, bare feet, people, towers, battlements, temples, horses, weapons, spears, death, homer, greyscale

Places shown: Troy; Turkey

Added: 2026-07-29

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FrontispieceLaws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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16.—Ancient British Weapons of bone and flint.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Mela says that the Druidical belief in a future state led the people to bury with the dead things useful to the living. The contents of these barrows indicate different stages of the arts. In some th [...]

Keywords: weapons, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-03-17

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Chapterhead for Opening of Chapter One of Homer’s OdysseyHomer’s Odyssy7 (1895)

“Sing to me a story of the wandering man, Muse” opens the famous poem. Well, it’s in Ancient Greek actually, and people translate the opening in many different ways. Here we see a person standing, poi [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, people, ancient greece, soldiers, weapons, bare feet, men, women, spears, harps, birds, homer, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2026-08-02

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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: 2010-12-29

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24.—Contents of Ancient British BarrowsOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The plate also has the following text: “1, 2. Flint Arrow-Heads. 3,4. Celts [Note: Webster (1913) gives Celt, n. LL. celts a chisel. (Archaeol.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the t [...]

Keywords: weapons, druids, burial mounds, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-02

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31.—British Weapons of Bronze, in their earliest and improved state.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Various weapons (if such they be) dug up from burial mounds in the vicinity of Stonehenge, probably of bronze. See also Fig. 16.

Keywords: weapons, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-03-30

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64.—Breast PlateOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is difficult to assign an exact period to their use of cloth in preference to skins. It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, [...]

Keywords: costumes, weapons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-28

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65.—Shield in the British Museum.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, exhibiting a taste for symmetry and nice workmanship in the fabrication of their weapon [...]

Keywords: weapons, shields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-30

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66.—Shield in the Meyrick CollectionOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, exhibiting a taste for symmetry and nice workmanship in the fabrication of their weapon [...]

Keywords: weapons, shields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-30

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67.—Circular British Shield.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, exhibiting a taste for symmetry and nice workmanship in the fabrication of their weapon [...]

Keywords: weapons, shields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-30

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