Ancient Battles and Revolts

Dramatic illustrations depicting historical battles, revolts, and significant religious moments, showcasing characters in historical attire amid intense conflict and emotion.

David defeats the Ammonites. The army of King David, under the generalship of Joab, defeats King Hanun and the Ammonites (Samuel 12: 27-8) Old Testament. Antique bible illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

An incident in the revolt of the Helvetii - Alpinula begs Caecinna for the life of Julius Alpinus, her father who is one of the leaders of the Helvetii against the Romans.

'The Thebans and Macedonians at Chaeronea', 1890. Creator: Unknown.

The Christianization of Saul. Saul the persecutor falls torn down before the power of our Lord Jesus son of God and becomes. Acts of the Apostles book

David defeats the Ammonites. The army of King David, under the generalship of Joab, defeats King Hanun and the Ammonites (Samuel 12: 27-8) Old Testament. Antique bible illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

Tetzel's indulgences, Dominican monk Johann Tetzel, 1460-1519, selling of indulgences, historic woodcut, c. 1880

The Rescue of a Queen - Mary of Hungary saved from her own people by the Venetians

Snake charmer in the court of Medinet Haboo. Egypt, engraving 1879

The Hambach Festival (May 1832) popular assembly, outdoors, speakers, audience, population, flags, celebration, development of democracy, liberalism, politics, demands, freedom, national unity, struggle, resistance, German Confederation, Kingdom of Bavaria, history, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany, historical illustration 1882

Peasant dances of the May Feasts. Facsimile of an engraving from a miniature in a 15th-century book of hours. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Jerome of Prague (1360-1416). Bohemian preacher. Jerome of Prague marching to execution. Engraving by C. D. Murray in The Religious Revolution, 1880.

Christ is nailed to the cross, Pieter de Jode (I), after Andrea Boscoli, 1590 - 1632 print Christ is nailed to the cross. Left in the foreground a woman with a child at the breast, pointing to the cross. A furious crowd in the background. In the margin a caption in Latin. Print from a series of fifteen with the passion of Christ. Italy paper engraving / etching the erection of the cross: Christ is nailed to the cross which lies on the ground

A British magistrate presides in a 'kutchery' - local court - in Oudh (now part of Uttar Pradesh) : at this time Oudh was independent, but it was Date: 1853

Royalty on Tour Arrival of the Prince of Wales at Jeypore War dance for Nagas India Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox

Philip teaching the eunuch of Queen Candaze about Christianity, historical steel engraving from 1860

The Reubenites are led into captivity, war, weapons, captives, spears, warriors, lead away, men, woman, children, camel, ride, march, Bible, Old Testament, First Book of Chronicles, Chapter 5, Verse 26, historical illustration c. 1850

The angel of the Maccabees, 2nd book of Maccabees, chapter 11, verse 8, Judas defeats Lysias, leader, armies, horsemen in white garments, golden armor, thanking God, battle, death, weapons, battlefield, victory, armor, Christian religion, Bible, Old Testament, steel engraving Doré, historical illustration 1885

People of Israel crosses the river, Frans Francken (I), 1552 - 1616 drawing In the foreground Joshua, who orders the priests to lift the ark and to precede the people. Possibly a design for a wall carpet. paper. ink. chalk pen / brush the Israelites leave their camp to cross the Jordan; the priests, carrying the ark, lead the march Jordan

Africa, Wedding dance in Kihajeli, Urua, Kingdom of the Luba in the south-east of today's Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1880, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

King of Benin with Soldiers, late 17th century, from Dapper, Description de l'Afrique Traduite du Flamand (1686).

Martin Luther preaches in Seeburg against the Peasants' War, religion, Christianity, politics, revolution, crowd, confusion, peasant, pitchfork, spears, weapons, landscape, anger, revolt, outrage, right, wrong, year 1525, 16th century, historical illustration c. 1860

The Finding of Moses, Joseph's Exaltation, First Book of Moses, Chapter 41, Verses 37-57, Old Testament, Bible, King, Egypt, Coach, Horses, Crowd, City, Stele, Moses, Exalted, Historical illustration 1890, Africa

Vintage antique illustration and line drawing or engraving of biblical story about David who beaten Philistine warrior Goliath.From Biblische Geschichte des alten und neuen Testaments, Germany 1859. Samuel 17.. Vintage Drawing of Biblical Story of David and Goliath.Small Man Defeated Big Warrior on Battlefield.

Historia de España. Trajes y armaduras de los cristianos en la Edad Media. Grabado de 1872.

Un relais de poste, Sweden. Travel in the Scandinavian states, 1856, Sweden and Lapland. Text and drawings by Saint Blaise. Le Tour du Monde 1862

Uprising of Don Pelayo in Covadonga,Spain in 718

Shortly after the Norman conquest of Britain, norsemen under Roger Guiscard land in Sicily.

The Battle of the Field of Mars, the Morava Field, near Duernkrut and Jedenspeigen took place on 26 August 1278. Rudolf I also known as Rudolf of Habsburg, Rudolf of Habsburg, and the Death of Ottokar II, the Iron and Golden King, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

THE CRUSADER'S FIRST SIGHT OF JERUSALEM, BY H. WARREN

Erection of the memorial stones, Children of Israel, Jordan, river, twelve stones, carry, inn, many people, landscape, valley, Bible, Old Testament, The Book of Joshua, chapter 4, verse 8, historical illustration around 1850, Middle East, Asia

Black Marriage at Goree. The Cullemgee of the Negroes.' 1806. Published in London by R. Phillips

Joshua spares Rahab Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883. 1866. still image. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Biblical events, Battlefields, Joshua (Biblical figure), Decapitations, Armies , To 499, Spears , To 499, Rahab (Biblical figure)

Engraving depicting a scene of the life of Alfred the Great (849-899) Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. Dated 9th Century

Ferdinand III (c.1201-1252), called Ferdinand the Saint. King of Castile and Leon. Surrender of Seville. Ferdinand III triumphal entry into the city. Engraving, 19th century.

Woodcut, The Celestial Rider, Second Book of the Maccabee, 11, 8, Old Testament, Catholic Picture-Bible

Pope Saint Nicholas I together with Louis II the Younger, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor

Execution of missionaries and Europeans during revolt in China, December 1891 engraving from French publication Le Petit Journal

Un relais de poste, Sweden. Travel in the Scandinavian states, 1856, Sweden and Lapland. Text and drawings by Saint Blaise. Le Tour du Monde 1862

SENEGAMBIAN PEOPLE. As a political unit, Senegambia was created by dueling French and English colonial forces in the region. Competition between the French and the English began in the 16th century when both started to establish trading centers. Although there was some overlap in their areas of influence, French trade centered on the Senegal River and in the Cap-Vert region and English trade on the Gambia River.

The Spaniards burn a man at the stake. A member of the clergy or priest holds out a Bible and a crucifix to the man who is to be burned or tortured. Spaniards on horseback pursuing Native Americans in the background, c. 1550, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Historia de España. Entrada de Abderrahman en Mérida. Siglo VIII. Grabado de 1872.

Trade in indulgences, path of indulgences by Johann Tetzel, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

In India, a Hindu woman lays beside her dead husband in a grave and will be buried alive. The practice of a widow joining her dead husband in death is called Sati or Suttee. The more usual form of S

Tsar Theodor (brother of Peter I the Great) burns the Books of Precedence.

Photograph of Jan Matejko's painting The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell at the Cathedral Tower in 1521 in Krakow Szubert, Song (1837 1919)

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITS AT THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION, 1886: SCENE ON THE MURRAY RIVER, NEW SOUTH WALES COURT

An exemplar of Roman obedience, Titus Torquatus Manlius condemns his own son to death for fighting an unauthorised duel. Date: circa 360 BCE

The farewell of St. Louis and Blanche of Castile, vintage engraving. The farewell of St. Louis and Blanche of Castile, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656198

. Christ and his students in the court of Getemane. Judas coast Christ on the cheek. The soldiers surround and arrest him. Peter tries to defend Christ and falls into one of the soldiers.

Torture, impalement, people impaled on a stake in Egypt, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Rudolf of Habsburg receives the announcement of his election as Emperor

Old Testament. Judas Maccabeus before the army of Nicanor, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866, the French artist and illustrator Gustave Doré (18321883), published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful.

Russian nomads. Engraving. 19th century.

William receives news of the rising of the north

Engraving titled 'Covenanters Preaching'.

Preaching a Maronite under the cedars of Lebanon, by Bida, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.

Bishop Ulfilas explains the Gospel to the Goths, Wulfila, Ulfilas, missionary to the Visigoths and founder of the Arian-Germanic doctrine, 311, 383, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Parable of the tenants of the vineyard, Jan Luyken, 1703

The Keepers of the Torah on the Sabbath Day, Sabbath, spears, gate, keepers, night, wall, Prietser, woman, men, Bible, Old Testament, The Book of Nehemiah, chapter 13, verse 21, historical illustration c. 1850, Near East

Christ on Calvary

BEDOWEENS AT PRAYER

Pawnee Indian standing on his horse, looking out for the enemy; either the Blackfoot or Comanches. Date: 1800

ENGLISH MERRY-MAKING IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Madjouto Burial, Central Africa. Journey across Africa, from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron

Johann Tetzel Selling Indulgences in Saxony. Tetzel (ca. 1460-1519), a Dominician monk, promoted the sale of indulgences to save peoples' souls in their afterlife. Colored engraving 1880.

After Lucas van Leyden, The Conversion of St. Paul, 1509-1900, engraving on laid paper.

Druids inciting the Britons to oppose the landing of the Romans, 43 (1905). Artist: Unknown.

Natives offering feathered head-dresses to two European conquerors, engraving, South America 17th Century.

The Return of the Scouts, Fourth Book of Moses, Chapter 13, Verses 17-31, Old Testament, Bible, Moses, Canaan, landscape, mountains, tents, plants, grapes, warriors, spears, weapons, pomegranates, Pharan desert, milk and honey, historical illustration 1890

The Cacharpari. Treat or dance that is offered as a farewell to someone who is going to embark on a trip, Peru, South America. Travel across South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 1848-1960 by Paul Marcoy (1815 - 1887) First stage, from Islay to Arequipa, Peru. Le Tour du Monde 1862

Portrait of Emperor Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415-1493) the first emperor of the House of Habsburg. Dated 15th Century

Nucki ka Kusti or claw wrestling in Vadodara (Baroda). Gujarat, India. Old engraving illustration from El Mundo en la Mano 1878

The martyrdom of Alphege, Palm Sunday, 1012

Traveling Arab Family with Camel, Man Standing Guard with Rifle, Arabia, "Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers", by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

Saxon Wars. "The frankish king Charlemagne (742-814) receiving the submission of the saxon king Witterkind at Paderborn in 785". Engraving. (Later colouration). Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.

'Proclamation of Queen Victoria at St. James's Palace , June 31, 1837', (1901). Heralds announce Victoria's succession to the throne at St James's Palace in London. Victoria (1819-1901) inherited the throne at the age of 18, after the death of her uncle, King William IV. She ruled as Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". London, 1901

Henry VI, November 1165, 28 September 1197, member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was German King of the Romans from 1190 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death, Entry into Palermo, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Return from the land of Canaan. The return of Joshua and Caleb with a huge bunch of grapes from the land of Canaan. Old Testament. Antique bible illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Engraving depicting Solomon's rebuilding of the Temple. Dated 19th century

Comanche Tribe, Lake Winnipeg. Initiation ceremony for young Comanche aspiring to become SHAMEN or Witch Doctors. Part of the ceremony included suspension by hooks passed through the flesh. This would have been preceded by increasingly frenetic activity such as dancing and drumming, which would induce a state of SELF HYPNOSIS.

Ancient Germanic burial, historic woodcut, c. 1880

Jehu orders Queen Jezebel to be thrown from the palace windows, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866, the French artist and illustrator Gustave Dore (18321883), published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful. Jehu king of the northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), noted for exterminating the house of Ahab, reigned 842815 BCE

Middle Ages crusades Bulgarians rise up against the Byzantine Empire late 12th century wood engraving ""Rout of the Bulgarians"" after Gustave Dore 19th century,

Spain. Andalusia. Holly Week in Seville. Procession of passos. Religion brotherhoods Holy Christ of Silence. Palm Sunday. Engraving by Paris. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870.

Persecution of Christians, anti-Christian politics in the Roman Empire, Christians as victims of predators in the circus of Rome, the history of ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Italy, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Woodcut, Conquest of Hai, Book of Joshua, 8, 19, Old Testament, Catholic Picture-Bible

A public hanging in Trebizond. Wood engraving by Ch. Barbant after Th. Deyrolle.

Old Moroccan traditional costumes, a caravan. Morocco. Africa. A few days in Morocco by Schickler Fernand David Georges de Schickler. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1860

A procession of elephants with the great Mogol of Delhi, chief of the Indian uprising, India, from a drawing by Soltiko, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 759, Volume XXIX, September 12, 1857.

Nucki ka Kusti or claw wrestling in Vadodara (Baroda). Gujarat, India. Old engraving illustration from El Mundo en la Mano 1878

Otto I traditionally known as Otto the Great, was German King and Holy Roman Emperor from 936, here he awards his son Ludolf, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

A medical exam at the redskins. The unfortunate were to die, the show was awful, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

Judgement Day in the Middle Ages, historical illustration, 1656

Historia sagrada. Moisés muestra las tablas de la ley mientras los isrelitas adoran el becerro de oro. Grabado de 1862.

Capture of Louis IX of France by Al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Turan Shah, Sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt, Sixth Crusade, historical engraving from 1883, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Capture of Louis IX of France by Al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Turan Shah, Sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt, Sixth Crusade, historical engraving from 1883, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Shepherds watching their flocks by night, drawn by W. J. Webb, 1872. 'Mr. Webb...presents us with a pleasing kind of pastoral idyll...Those Syrian shepherds, watching their flocks of sheep and goats by night, as the moon rises higher in the clear sky of that Eastern clime, and floods the vast plain below them with a silver sea, tranquil as the mind of a saint after prayer, might be likened, at first sight, to the privileged shepherds of another blessed Christmas time...But these careless rustic loungers, perhaps of the ordinary condition among their fellow-countrymen, do not seem to have heard

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) surrendering to the confederate lords of Scotland, June 1567 From "The Imperial History of England" by Theophilus Camden (London, 1832) Engraving

Cremation in an ancient Germanic tribal ritual circa 4th century AD

The walls of Jericho falling. After a 19th century work by Gustave Dore. The picture illustrates the story from the Old Testament in the book of Joshua 6:1-27.

Jesus collapses on Calvary under the weight of carrying the cross to the place of his crucifixion. New Testament. Antique bible illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

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