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Artistic Depictions of Soldiers

Illustrative prints and drawings depicting soldiers in various uniforms and settings, reflecting military life and historical events.

Tsar Alexander II resists demands for constitutional rule. A nihilist bomb in 1881 will give him reason to regret it... Date: 1879
Tsar Alexander II resists demands for constitutional rule. A nihilist bomb in 1881 will give him reason to regret it... Date: 1879
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The figures represented here are two German warriors between 1500 and 1550. The illustration dates to 1882.The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China, lasting from 1856-1860.Photo collection First World War. Cartoon of Louis Raemaekers. Peter van Amiëns: "God wants it! The German Furie is a furie against the humanism; it is a war to all nations!". 1914-1918}King of the Prussians (IT)Germany. Second Reich. German militarism. Lithogray by Dalsani. 1906.Kitchener, in charge of recruitment, tells Liberal government ministers Asquith and Churchill that things aren't as bad as they look... Date: May 1915Portada de la revista Nuevo Mundo, 27 abril 1898, publicada en Madrid. El comandante del crucero Vizcaya, vicealmirante Antonio Eulate, durante la campaña de Cuba. Antonio Eulate Fery.Black Cat Cigarettes, World war One, propaganda card showing: Germany stealing Dutch oil for the war effortPhoto production of an engraving of the murder attack on Willem I by Balthasar Gérards in Delft on July 10, 1584, Anonymous, 1850 - 1900 visit card. photograph Netherlands photographic support. cardboard albumen print murder PrinsenhofMarrons Carved. / No. 15bis / Folding Plole / A Cabinet General Operating in Trenches. (IT)End of ignition serious u. Cheerful pictures from the German National War against Napoleon III and from the following time / n ° 20. / Parisian hunting scenes (TI)France, 1840 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, FranceClemenceau and the Peace TalksLe Capitaine Burle , Military personnel, Military officers, Restaurants, Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. Capitaine Burle. English. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923). LithographsYoung man, I am satisfied with the way .... / 25 (title registered (letter)) | The French troops. (Title of all)In Bazeille September 2, 1870 (registered title) | The third invasion. War of 1870-1871. (title of all)Cartoon at the Rotterdam patriot preacher and professor Johan Jacob Le Sage ten Broek, approx. 1785. Ten pants presented for one half as a member of a free corps in uniform with rifle and for the other half as a pastor with a Bible in hand. In addition to him a lance with freedom hat. A free corps in the background. On the leaf under the plate two verses of eight and four lines.Quarantine at Marseilles: officers of the ships in detentions being visited by their wives and children Date: 1884Ovent Adjutant Trei Train. 1862 Codezo, F.. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, SpainItaly. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1806-1808. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, ItalyMarine of the National Guard./ (1)Roumania, 1896 part 2. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Romaniaevents First Opium War 1839 - 1842 British force the Chinese to take opium caricature drawing by Grandville (1803 - 1847) China Great Britain Asia drugs cartoon,Britannia surrounds her island with a cordon of mines Date: 1915The key to the situation. / How the Prussians took Paris in January 1871.A humorous self-portrait of the artist showing him still sketching somewhere on the Western Front many years in the future. He is observed by an officer and two little mice, one of which is modelling for him while another enjoys a piece of cheese, perhaps given as payment for modelling services rendered Some soldiers felt like the war might never end - a popular subject among cartoonists both professional and amateur. Date: c.1918Colonel Wilson, of Wilson's Brigade, and Colonel Ellsworth, of the Fire Zouaves Published 1861 United States. Wood engravings on paper . Winslow HomerThe tempter and the traitor - the treason of Arnold on the night of September 21, 1780. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print CollectionItaly. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1806-1808 part 6. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, ItalyRats on board ship,a midnight fantasy. Prints. 1884. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Rats, Ships, Sailors, Guards, Searching, RatcatchingCartoon, The Last Uniform of All, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II in civilian dress, looking forward to his change from uniform after a peace treaty is signed at the end of the First World War (it would be another four years before this could happen). Date: September 1914Cartoon on ABT Brouwers, 1868, 1867 print Cartoon on Abbot Brouwers Nav Groen van Prinsterer's criticism of his writing about the celebration of the Battle of Heiligerlee. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 47, November 21, 1868. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper .The food question down south. Title from item, Captioned: Jeff Davis: "See! see! the beautiful Boots just come to me from the dear ladies of Baltimore!" Beauregard: "Ha! Boots Boots When shall we eat them Now", Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 332 (1863 May 9), p. 304. Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, Beauregard, G. T, (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893, Boots, 1860-1870, Food supply, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment & supplies, Confederate.Three of Spades - German soldiers commandeering the property of a peasant family. Tański, Czesław (1862-1942), draughtsman, cartoonistNetherlands, 1900. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, NetherlandsDaeine charged, 1831, 1831 print Cartoon on the reorganization of Daine's army by the Minister of War Charles de Brouckère after the defeat of the Belgian Maasgleer near Hasselt on August 8, 1831. General Daine sits on a small stool with a pointed cap with a mill on his head. Opposite him the minister is behind a table. With French title and five -line Dutch caption. Netherlands paperTsar Nicholas II of Russia with Tsarevich salutes an officerHow must a , national guard , exercise regulations of the National Guard, Carl Tendler, publisher'In Germany -Now' Caption: Member of the queue: "Yes -that's the Food Dictator who tells us how much we've got to eat" By 1917, the German population was beginning to feel the pinch. Whereas the British had managed to survive the U-boat blockade by organising their merchant fleet into convoys, the Allied blockade of Germany had been ruthlessly effective, and the country came close to starvation. The situation was no better for the German army when no meat or fresh produce was avaCartoon, The bastards! They're shooting down there ... Perhaps these French soldiers expected an Easter ceasefire. Date: 1917Cartoon, Broken down. A GVC (Gardes-Voies et Communications) soldier speaks to a passenger who is complaining about the delay to his train. The GVC soldier says: You've only been here for a quarter of an hour. When you've been here for 28 months, like me, then you'll have the right to complain! Date: 1917Coast Guard Writer Wounded on Luzon. This image depicts artwork of Coast Guard correspondant Jack B. Cole after being wounded on Luzon during the invasion, drawn by Coast Guard Combat Artist Jack B. Gildersleeve.What do I mean! You do not want to go out without a sword / No M'Man, with my uniform will be taken for a soldier that is not good subject. (Title registered) | News. (Title of the whole)Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue focusing on the soldiers who try to avoid unpleasant tasks. Date: 1917A favorite pastime , Sailors, Military personnel, Military life, Card gamesFirst Testing, 1828, Jean-Louis Van Hemelryck, 1828 print A guard complains with an officer in a carriage over the rain in his guardhouse. Part of a series of approximately 24 cartoons from 1828 on the mismanagement within the Belgian militia companies by social inequality within the corps, introduced after the reorganization on 11 April 1827. Southern Netherlands paper the soldier; the soldier's life BelgiumJeff's last shift ca. 1865. George Brinton McClellan 1826 - 1885. Union general during American Civil War. From painting by Alonzo ChappelItaly. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1806-1808 part 5. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, ItalyAlfred Dreyfus in prison, 1895. Artist: Unknownmilitary, caricatures, ""Drollige Gestalten"" (Funny Creatures), from ""Bilderbogen"", circa 1900,Abdul Hamid and his two crutches, Mehmet Ali and Midhat Pascha, Abdul Hamid and his two crutches title page of Die Bomb, László frecskay -, caricaturistCollection (mosaic) of heads of German (Prussian) soldiers at the time of the Franco-German War ('Les Allemands and France'), c. 1870 - c. 1871 Photograph. visit card France paper. photographic support albumen printCartoon, Guarding Salonika. Two sailors in white uniform on deck, watching the passing shipping. Date: 1916Cartoon, Soldiers talking to a boy carrying wine in the street. They ask him if it's for them. No, he says, it's for me. Date: 1918This photo taken in early World War I has the caption: Boot inspection at Aldershot. Owing to a short suply new shoes cannot be issued to all voluteers at once, and so the most needy are supplied first. Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district of Hampshire, England.Paris National Guard / 1st series / Souvenir of the 2 seats / n ° 6 / A post of civic guards (IT)Russo-Japanese War: Red Cross nurses attending war casualties in a Japanese hospital; right, a European () man in formal military dress is standing to attention and facing right. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1904.Au fait! C'est un bal assez distingué , Military officers, Politicians, Kings, Atthalin, Louis Jean-Baptiste, baron, 1784-1856, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsWW1 caricature by Spanish illustrator Feliu Elias i Bracons showing the French Marshal Joseph Joffre holding pair of scales on the Verdun battlefieldA British soldier has his boots polished by some jolly Egyptian bootblacks Date: 1917Utrecht as a garrison city/ visiting the field!Prince Albert Victor (1864-1892) and Prince George (later King George V) (1865-1936), sons of the princes of Wales, working in mechanical occupations of seamanship, on board the frigate HMS Britannia, being educated as naval cadets on board of that Royal Navy's training ship. The engraving represents the two royal midshipmen practicing the exercise of tying the ends of a broken cable without tying a knot. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878.A Chinese pawn shop in Dalny , Pawnshops, Soldiers, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905A French soldier on sentry duty in the trench.The Yankey torpedo E-s del & sc.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Sailors,British,1810-1820. , Sea monsters,1810-1820. , United States,History,War of 1812,Naval operations.The crew of a British destroyer gingerly negotiate their way through a German mine-field in the North Sea. The captain is reading a wireless message. Date: 1918The Load / Satirical Journal Weekly / Bismarck and General Prim by Alfred The Little / Do not Wake up the cat that sleeps.Count Taaffe - Our Bismarck, Series Wo, wo bleibt der fuenfte Soldat, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, Liebig collector's picture, exact date unknownRebel Negro pickets as seen through a field-glass. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 Jan. 10. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Confederate, African Americans, Military service, 1860-1870.Little Lily's Alphabet: I for a Soldier, Alphabet - Little LillyFrench satirical illustration of 1909, showing medical inspection for military conscripts. 1907The Foreign Legion. Cartoon by Neb of the Daily Mail.A page of silhouettes by the artist Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley at the time he was serving in Italy during World War One. Images show British soldiers in Italy, learning the language, and ingratiating themselves with the local inhabitants. Date: 1918Brigadier-General George A. Custer / photographed by Brady.. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1864 March 19, p. 177. Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876, Military service, Generals, Union, 1860-1870, Horseback riding, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.The sentinel asleep, 1900. Additional, O sentinel! brave sentinel! first line of chorus. Additional, That night upon the battlefield the dead and dying lay., 1900., New York; Detroit. Publisher, Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer; Jerome H. Remick & Co. Songs, Battlefields, Sleeping Soldiers, American, 1900-1909, Marches (Voice with piano), Man-woman relationships, Men's dreams., 1 score (6 p.); 35 cmEngraving depicting Captain Eyre Massey Shaw (1830-1908) head of the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade, with fire apparatus. Dated 19th centuryA Bit of War History: The Contraband 1865 Thomas Waterman Wood American This work, painted at the close of the Civil War, forms a narrative triptych (84.12a, b, c) of African American military service. In "The Contraband" (84.12a)a term that referred to enslaved people who fled to Union lines at the beginning of the conflictthe self-emancipated man appears in a U.S. Army Provost Marshall General office, eager to enlist. The Recruit (84.12b) represents him as proudly ready for military service. In "The Veteran" (84.12c), he is depicted as an amputee possibly seeking his pension in the same office where he first enlisted, or returning to military service. By the war’s end, African American men made up more than ten percent of the United States Army and Navy, fighting bravely in so-called U.S. Colored Troops. Wood, a White Vermont-born painter, produced this empathetic work in New York at a time when caricatured representations of African Americans were the norm.. A Bit of War History: Peace--Fourth of July, 1865. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 July 8, p. 417. Angels, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Peace.Gesigt from the Thuijn Int General.French world war two poster 'Le Secours National - Entr'Aide d'Hiver du Maréchal'; National Relief Poster, Marshal's Winter Mutual AidA Short History: General John Brown Gordon, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Histories of Generals" series (N114), issued in 1888 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco.. A Short History: General John Brown Gordon, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)