Historical Military Illustrations

Artistic depictions of historical military scenes and figures, highlighting significant moments, battles, and key individuals through illustration.

Death of the brunette marshal. (IT)

The skeleton of Death carries off a wounded man before the doctor can attend him after a fatal duel with pistols in a park. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

Wilhelm Tell in Conflict Met Gessler, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1781 print paper etching fruits: apple. archer's weapons: arrow. head-gear: hat. imprisonment. William Tell

French army Veterans, Vivandiere, trope children unknown

Soldier with rifle, Johannes Steyn, 1815 - 1840 print A soldier constructs his gun. In the background a man with the course of a cannon in his arms. Amsterdam paper etching firearms: cannon. private soldier

Death of the brunette marshal. (IT)

Szekler, Oestreich 1760, Sachse 1757, Ungarischer Jnbfant 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Austria

We find the body of Prince Poniatowski unknown

Patriot Ascension; Military Recreation in Holland; Four English cartoons on the Patriots in 1787. A Dutch patriot is thrown into the air by Prussian soldiers in a blanket, leaving the links from his pockets. Above left an English sailor forces the Frenchman to watch. Pastiche on an illustration of an episode from the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Part of a group of four cartoons on the patriots at the time of the Prussian raid in October 1787. The original version with English inscriptions issued in London. See also the pendant and the corresponding couple of cartoons.

English uniforms. (TF)

Chevy Chase or the bank runner , Chasing, Horseback riding, Bank of the United States 1816-1836

THE SCOTT CENTENARY

Incident of the entrance of the Prussians in Paris. (IT)

Gerhard Ludvig Lahde (1765-1833), courageous means of a Russian, 1805

'The coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire (9th November), 1799', 19th century. Artist: Unknown

The value / L 'bought / Valor COWARDICE (Soldier we have Horse in Pursuit of Escaping Warriors) unknown, Bergeret

Engraving depicting Mariano Álvarez de Castro (1749- 1810) Spanish military officer, and the military governor of Gerona during the siege by the French during the War of Spanish Independence. Dated 1810

Mon brave Danois! On connait leur brassard blanc. Je l'ai vu en 1814! Cela signifie dix contre un!. Cham (Count Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé) (France, Paris, 1819-1879). France, 1864. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Assassination of General Kleber (1753-1800) Commander of the Army of Egypt, June 14, 1800 Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). Assassination of General Kleber (1753-1800) Commander of the Army of Egypt, June 14, 1800. Gouache cut glued on bluish paper, around 1800. Paris, Carnavalet museum.

The students of Vienna at the first registered letter to the National Guard , March , Franz Kollarz Kolář -, Lithographer, Johann Rauh -, printer

The self-sacrifice of mayor van der Werff during the siege of Leiden, 1574, draughtsman: Charles Rochussen, 1824 - 1894, paper, h 280 mm × w 356 mm

TitleVignnet, 1798. Patriots TitleVignet on a title page of 1798. The French monarchy lies like a fallen knight on the ground. A French soldier drives away a monk with a gun and bayonet.

Chelsea Pensioners, John Burnet, 1784-1868, British, after Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, British, 1831, Engraving, Sheet: 21 1/2 x 30 1/2in. (54.6 x 77.5cm)

Patriotte hemlvarts, Joh Heartrich Rambersgg, 1787 - 1788 print A Dutch patriot is thrown into a blanket in the air by Prussian soldiers, causing the coins to fly out of his pockets. At the top left, an English sailor forces the Frenchman to watch. Pastiche on an illustration of an episode from the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Part of a group of four cartoons on the Patriots at the time of the Prussian invasion in October 1787. Repetition of the original version but now with English and German inscriptions. See also the pendant and the corresponding pair of cartoons. England paper etching grown-ups playing children's games

Three French soldiers, Alexandre Lacauchie, 1830 - 1860 print France paper etching private soldier. officer

HORROROSO ASESINATO DE MAMERTO LANDABURU COMETIDO EN EL PALACIO REAL DE MADRID POR LOS GUARDIAS ESPAÑOLES EL 30 DE JUNIO DE 1822. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS BLANCO Y NEGRO. MADRID. SPAIN.

EXPLOSION OF A RUSSIAN INFERNAL MACHINE ON BOARD THE 'EXMOUTH'

Great victory of the French army (IT)

Dispersion of the Thimble Rig. Artist: John Doyle (Irish, Dublin 1797-1868 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 11/16 × 16 15/16 in. (29.7 × 43 cm). Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, active London 1788-1885). Series/Portfolio: HB Sketches, No. 330. Subject: Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (British, 1790-1866); William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (British, London 1779-1848 Hertfordshire); Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British, 1778-1868); Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (British, 1769-1852); Sir Robert Peel (British, Bury, 1788-1850); Daniel O'Connell (Irish, Cahirciveen, Kerry 1775-1847 Genoa); Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton (British, 1791-1863); Lord John Russell (British, 1792-1878); Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (British, Northumberland 1764-1845 Northumberland); Ernest Augustus I, King of Hanover, Duke of Cumberland (1771-1851); Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (British, 1799-1869). Date: July 14, 1834. Museum: Metropolitan Museum

Line infantry, - Foothunter.

An Historical Episode: A Military Officer Leading other Figures in Taking an Oath upon a Sword on a Table before Churchmen, Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752-1798, British, undated, Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted thin, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/4 inches (11.7 × 18.4 cm), men, military art, oaths, sword, table

Massacre of Monseigneur Darboy, Archbishop of Paris and prisoners of the Roquette. (IT)

General Lee taken prisoner. 1760 - 1872. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Lee, Charles, 1731-1782 , Capture and imprisonment

Provocation of a man against a soldier at a popular ball, Planche No. 6 Lithographic sketches 1824. (Title Title)

Three male soldiers in conversation, Bernard Édouard Swebach, 1822 print Paris paper the soldier off duty

The self-sacrifice of Mayor van der Werff during the siege of Leiden, 1574. Draughtsman: Charles Rochussen. Dating: 1824 - 1894. Measurements: h 280 mm × w 356 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Cartoon on outdated institutions such as the Sagittaries, 1860; Sagittaries. Cartoon on outdated institutions such as the Sagittaries, 1860. Procession of a rugged group of Dutch archers. Plate appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 39, September 29, 1860.

Death of Barthold Entens, 1580; Death of Bartel Entens. Barthold Entens falled into fights before Groningen, May 27, 1580. Entens will come while firing a cannon, in the distance the city of Groningen.

Samuel Collings, active 1784-1795, British, Essay on Duelling - Anglice Doing = Him!, 1789. Etching, hand-colored.

A Review of the New Grand Army 1815 William Heath ('Paul Pry') Napoleon stands at the center of this satire and points towards cannon balls lettered "Forse, meat Balls for the Lads of Paris," with Death and the Devil in the clouds behind him at right. At left, an Italian brigand holds a pistol and a pole lettered "Plunder" and at right a butcher holds a noose and a knife. An inscription below describes the figures as "Captain of Starved Banditty from the Alps, Ad Camp, The Aghast Emperor & his two Friends & Pillars of the State, Butcher from Elba. Generalissimo." Above Napoleon's head, a figure ererges from clouds identified as "Deamon of War Presideing over the Tyrant." In the distance ragged soldiers declare their support for the emperor.. A Review of the New Grand Army. William Heath ('Paul Pry') (British, Northumbria 1794/95-1840 Hampstead). 1815. Hand-colored etching. Prints

In L'Assiette au Beurre satirical magazine; Edition: Black Masses. Coloured illustration: Dead bodies surround the English and French officers. Caption: The Anglo-French Protectorate- subtitle the word comes from the root 'protection'.

United Irishmen Upon Duty, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1798, Etching and aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 3/16 x 10in. (18.3 x 25.4cm)

He fought with fist as well as with club

General August Willich's quarters near Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress, Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188), Blood shed in this war: Civil War illustrations by Captain Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana / Michael A. Peake. Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, p. 89. Willich, August, Military service, Military life, Union, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military life, Union, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain.

THE WAR IN THE EAST

Road menders shaking their fists at the retreating coach of Rugby School boys who have bombarded them with peashooters. Illustration for 1869 edition of Tom Browns Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. Original edition 1857.

I ask you forgive if I can not offer you anything ... / 36 (title registered (letter)) | Cossacks for laughter. (Title of all)

A bare-knuckled boxing match between the Prince of Wales and Napoleon, with their supporters including a black man. Coloured etching by Charles Williams, 1815.

N ° 3 / The generalissimal of the armies of land and sea is going to get his soldiers ....

The Sovereign People Savranger, Tiring Get off at Coffin. (IT)

Historical scene: a delegation consisting of two consuls the representation of the Senate and the army, gives Napoleon Bonaparte a nomination at the French emperor, in Saint Cloud, on 18.05. 1804. unknown, Thibaudier

The Civil War.Released Prisoners - The dance upon the deck of the Confederate ""Star of the South"". Ink wash on paper by William Waud. January 14, 1865

Cartoon on the distribution of Belgian honorary crosses, 1834, 1834 print Bartlepent on the generous assignment of the Belgian honorary crosses, 1834. King Leopold I is with a few generals on an elevation and takes a handful of medals between the officers standing for him. On the left a hedge cavalrymen. print maker: Belgiumpublisher: Brussels paper medals and other marks of military honour

Illustration depicting the attack on Mengibar during the Peninsular War (18071814) was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. Dated 1808

Appreciation of a troop of Raubenvisel when she broke into the rectory in Mariahilf , on March , Franz Barth -, publisher

An English naval officer greets an old man in an inn. Admiral Bowsprit re-united with his father. In a rear room, rescued odalisk Ellen talks to her father Old Primrose. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford.

The Death of Marshal Duroc at Hochkirchen on 22 May 1813 by Campe, August Friedrich Andreas (1777-1846) / Private Collection /Germany / Etching, watercolour / History / 24x28,5

Utrechtse Maskerade from 1851: Rederijkers in 1500, 1851 print Episode from the time of the Rederijkers, ca. 1500. Procession of the members of the Haarlem rederijkerskamer De Wijngaertrancken (the vineyard drinks) in Haarlem. Part of the series of eight prints of the Maskerade of the students of the Utrecht Hogeschool representing episodes from Dutch history, 25 June 1851. See also the explanation of the Presenting of the Prent, published separately. Utrecht paper Students' Pageant. Chamber of Rhetoric (Dutch: 'Rederijkerskamer') Haarlem

Care of the injured Prince of Orange, 1815; First connection of the Bekene Wonde van Z.K.H. The Lord Prince of Orange, in the Battle of Waterloo. Willem Frederik George, Prince of Orange, injured during the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 is connected. Interior of a house in which the prince is on a chair next to a bed and is cared for by a doctor. On the right other injured soldiers. Part of a group of illustrations of events around and during the battles at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, 16-18 June 1815.

A man in a soldier's uniform is instructing men with cutlasses to remove a reluctant recruit from his home. Coloured wood engraving.

POLITICAL CARICATURE N ° 59 / Fort and FAUBURAN. (Title registered (letter))

Soldiers at various stages of their careers, and in various situations. Etching by George Cruikshank.

Alsace ladies tending the wounded in the town of gunstell after the battle of Woerth.(TI)

The midnight march - the American troops, under Colonel William Prescott, taking possession of Breed's Hill on the night of June 16th, 1775. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

The Battle of Ostroleka on 26 May 1831 by Wunder, Georg Benedikt (1786-1858) / Private Collection /Germany / Colour lithograph / History /

Cartoon on the retreat of Napoleon I Bonaparte from Russia, Jacob Smies, 1812 - 1814, On the right Napoleon with head bowed and stocking his head; on the left a group of poor musicians holding a French banner on which is: Hier Koomt / Pauwel Jonas. Top left the fleeing Fame., draughtsman: Jacob Smies, 1812 - 1814, paper, pen, brush, h 115 mm × w 189 mm

Cadet Roussel, Barber at the Fountain of Innocents (Cadet Roussel Rhastant Beullan). (Dummy title)

French Revolution (1789-1799). Arrest of King Louis XVI (1754-1793) and his family at Varennes, June 21, 1791. Engraving by A. Closs. Our Century, 1883. Colored.

Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, Galic Perfidy, or the National Troops Attachment to their General after their Defeat at Tournay, 1792. Etching, hand-colored.

The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec (September, 1759) October 10, 1779 After Edward Penny British. The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec (September, 1759). After Edward Penny (British, Knutsford, Cheshire 1714-1791 Chiswick). October 10, 1779. Mezzotint, hand colored. R. Sayer and J. Bennett (London). Prints

Pensive Napoleon looking at the sea. (TF)

Caricature on the discussion about the uniformation of the National Guard from a series of the artist to , Alexandre, Drawer

Tecumseh told Harrison: Indian lands were common property and could not be sold without agreement of all Indian nations; the confederacy wanted to keep peace and their lands, but would defend their villages from U.S. advance. In Tecumseh's absence, 1811, Harrison led troops into contested lands along Wabash River. At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake Erie, on October 5, 1813, Harrison defeated the combined British and Indian forces, and killed Tecumseh. Harrison later became president of the United States, taking office in 1841

Gentleman fencers in the fourth and fifth positions of the Salute. Copperplate engraving by after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Mr. Domenico Angelo's The School of Fencing, London, 1787.

At the barricades on February 24th. / 1 (title registered (letter)) | The people of Paris. (Title of all)

Russian men and women bind Polish insurgents in the spring of 1863. unknown

Paris Commune 26 March-28 May 1871. The Bloody Week: Execution of hostages by the Commune. Mgr Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, and 5 other hostages shot in the prison of la Roquette on the orders of Theophile Ferre, 24 May.

A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the Humane British and Their Worthy Allies! After a work c. 1812 by WIlliam Charles, a Scottish born engraver and immigrant to the United States, who was resp

A crossbowman and his paviser, 1433. Arbalest in jacket and multicoloured clothes from the Chronique d'Engleterre, and his guard with a pavise in monstrous jacque over chainmail sleeves and gorget from a copy of the Roman de la Rose. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.

Here Once the Embattled Farmer Stoodó, Farming

First students Barricade , In addition to the university on the morning of May , in Vienna, After, Mintloff, Drawer

RETURN OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION, SKETCHES ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS ALERT AND DISCOVERY, AT QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND, ON OCT. 1876

Good foresight of MR de Blacas. Dedication of royal volunteers. (IT)

Amsterdam, Fock, Hermanus, Cartoons on the defeats of the French in 1813, Napoleon pulls a dog in a goblet through the swamp, verso - stamped, Napoleon, with a sock on his head, pulls a dog in a goblet through the swamp. French soldiers help him. In the background the French troops being defeated by the Cossacks, the fireworks, and a cemetery portal with a skeleton of a French soldier. Below the text: French lot, drawn in the Mossekouwse Loterey in 1812 and following!, print, picture, cartoon, history print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 87 mm, width 103 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1766-11-01 - 1822-09-27, print maker, printmaker, 1813 - 1813, paper, papier, etching, etchings

Near Ostrovno on August 1, 1812 by Faber du Faur, Christian Wilhelm, von (1780-1857) / State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow / 1820s / Germany / Lithograph, watercolour / History / 25x31

The Battle of Trafalgar and the Death of Nelson by Craig, William Marshall (ca. 1765-1827) / Private Collection / 1806 / Great Britain / Etching, watercolour / History / 52x61,5

Settlers and Boer convoys, illustration

The guard dies and does not go, but Buonaparte goes and does not die. (IT)

Le général Giulay taillant ses ennemis... , Military officers, Gyulai, Ferenc József, gróf, 1798-1868. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Cartoon in which an English commander, Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, walks arm in arm between two Dutch prostitutes with bare breasts, one of whom is rolling his pockets. On the left, another Englishman urinates against a cannon, in an army camp. On the occasion of the actions of the Coalition Army in the Netherlands in 1793, English commander with two Dutch light cages, 1793 Preparing for action or an English Man of War Engaging two Dutch Doggers , print maker: Isaac Cruikshank, publisher: Samuel W. Fores, (mentioned on object), London, 9-Jun-1793, paper, etching, h 247 mm × w 340 mm

Combat à la Bayonette. Auguste Raffet (France, Paris, 1804-1860). France, 1825-1829. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Meaning made at the outposts of the break and the recovery / immediate of hostilities! .... (title registered) | News. (Title of the whole)

Three Men in () Seventeenth Century Dress, in a Street Sword Fight, Central Man Run Through, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, undated, Graphite and red chalk on thin, smooth, blued white, wove paper, Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 13/16 inches (12.5 × 17.3 cm), fighting, genre subject, hat, injury, men, stabbing, street, swords, wound

Sword fight between two men. The men are located in an interior between a group of spectators. Drawing on leaf 6 of an album with 35 drawings.

French Revolution: Day of 13 Thermidor year II or July 28, 1794. Robespierre on the exhaustlery (dummy title)

Helmet show before a tournament. Knights' helmets and shields were checked for their heraldic accuracy. From an illustration in Georg Ruxner's Origins of the Tourney in the German Nation, 1532. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages, Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810.

France, 1761- 1763 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, France

18th century. Bandits robbing the rectory of Castellfollit (Catalonia). Engraving. Historia de las Escuadras de Cataluña, 1876.

Józef Antoni Poonatowski (1763 1813) Leader of the Polish Army, Marshal of the Empire. Le Prince Poonatowski Qite Sa Famille. 4 lithhography cycle about Poonatownski's Life, no. 1. Unknown, imp. Bès and Dubreuil

Deventer bombed by Kozaks, 1813, Pieter van der Beek, after Nicolaas Sonnenberg, 1813 print During the bombing of Deventer through the Russian Cossacks, forget to take the guard on the fright on the alarm drum when a bomb is close to him, 23 () November 1813. With four -line verse. Netherlands paper etching / engraving bombardment ~ siege. bombardment. guard duty, keeping sentry. (military) signals Deventer

The Five Days of Milan, 18-22 March 1848, the insurgents read a proclamation of the Provisional Government, by Gerolamo Induno (1827-1890), watercolour. First war of independence, Italy, 19th century.

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