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XEE4150612: JEAN-MARIE ROLAND DE LA PLATIERE English statesman, depicted at the moment of his self- inflicted death by falling on his own sword - Suicide by Jean Marie Roland, Viscount de la Platiere (1734-1793) - Engraving in “Histoire des Girondins” by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) 1865-1866 - Private collection, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678253: Suit of armour of an Italian man at arms of Count Gironi, Bologna, 1555. The suit has flexible splints at elbows, breastplate and backplate, and a flexible codpiece for comfort when seated in the saddle. Geman pennated dagger at bottom. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5912939: Male dandy in cap, lace ruff collar, short cape, quilted doublet, hose, buckle shoes, wearing a sword. Le Mignon, 16th century. Chromolithograph by Louis Rene Letronne after an illustration by Th. Fragonard et Dufey from Le Keepsake Francais with 12 plates from A. Mazuy’s Types et Caracteres Anciens, d’apres des Documents Peints ou Ecrits, chez Delloye, Paris, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4704643: Roman soldiers with shields, swords, helmets. The one on the right wears a scale armour shirt (lorica squamata) and carries a javelin (verutum). Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages”” (1798). / Bridgeman Images