Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618 ordering the standard of Queen Elizabeth to be erected on the coast of Virginia, 1584, engraved by the artist for Middletons Complete System of Geography -
Taylor
William IV (1765-1837) from Illustrations of English and Scottish History Volume II -
Sir David Wilkie
Order prevails in Warsaw, satirical criticism of the comments of Minister Sebastiani after Russian troops stormed the Polish capital, 1831 -
Charles Joseph Travies de Villiers
The Inferno, Canto 12, lines 73-74: We to those beasts, that rapid strode along, Drew near -
Gustave Dore
Cupid commemorating a marriage by Incising on a a Tablet the interlaced initials FT and RC -
Jean-Baptiste Huet
The first charge at Hastings: Taillefer the minstrel sword-juggler rode from the ranks singing and tossing his sword in the air, 1066, illustration from the book The History of the Nation -
Richard Caton Woodville
The crown offered to William and Mary by the Lords and Commons at Whitehall, February 12, 1689, from Illustrations of English and Scottish History Volume II -
(after) Ward, Edgar Melville
The Provisional Government of 29th July 1830 L to R Jacques Lafitte 1767-1844 -
Antoine Maurin
Historiated initial N depicting St. Maurice and the Theban Legion, Lombardy School, c.1499-1511 -
Alessandro Pampurino
TSM H.1524 Siege of Vienna by Suleyman I 1494-1566 the Magnificent, in 1529, from the Hunername by Lokman, detail of Vienna, 1588 -
I the Magnificent Suleyman
Portrait Of Lieutenant Colonel, Comte De Thalouet -
Horace Vernet
Francisco Pizarro assassinated by an army of conspirators -
Theodore de Bry
Scene showing that those born under the sign of Taurus in conjunction with the constellation of the Pleiades are imparted with an aptitude for fighting, symbolised by a gladiatorial combat, from the Camera dei Venti, 1528 -
Giulio Romano (Orbetto)
Ill be the bravest man in the fight, illustration from Ballads of Famous Fights, c.1900 -
Archibald Webb
The Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, an illustration from The Lion of the North A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion by G.A. Henty, pub. London -
Johann Nepomuk Schonberg
Portrait of Baron Ede Mikos 1869 -
Mor Than
Maharaja Sher Sing of the Punjab and his entourage out hunting, engraved by Louis Henri de Rudder 1807-81 -
(after) Soltykoff, A.
Cardinal Infante Ferdinand 1609-41 Governor of the Spanish Netherlands -
Jan van den Hoecke
Naval cutlass exercise including prepatory movements and words of command, engraved by I. Girtin, published by T. Egerton, 7th February 1814 -
(after) Rowlandson, Thomas
Company of Captain Reinier Reael, known as the 'Meagre Company' -
Frans Hals
Hello and Goodbye the Rhine illustration from Le Pelerin 1930 -
A. R. Moritz