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FLO4678450: King Richard III of England, Duke of Gloucester, 1452-1485, or his father Richard, Third Duke of York 1411-1460. He wears a crown, a suit of armour with a globular breastplate and engraved plates, fingered gauntlets, and holds a two-handed sword. From a stained glass window in Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 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
FLO4674010: Elias I, Count of Maine, died 1110. He wears a tunic and stockings of chainmail, iron helmet and triangular escutcheon (shield) with gold cross. Sword in a large scabbard hanging from his neck. Taken from his tomb in Abbey Saint-Pierre de la Couture, Le Mans. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4673794: Charlemagne, King of France, Caroligian Emperor, 742-814. He wears a white mitre and crown, green cape, steel armour, chainmail suit, iron spurs and black shoes. He holds a sword in scarlet and gold scabbard and iron orb. From a 14th century manuscript of the kings of the House of Bavaria. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
PC719760: Panel 17 of the story of Psyche and Cupid: the jealous sisters deduce Psyche that she has never actually seen her husband. They believe he is the monster predicted by the oracle and tell her to kill him before he kills her. They give her a lamp so she can see him and a sword. (stained glass) / Bridgeman Images
PC719761: Panel 17 of the story of Psyche and Cupid: the jealous sisters deduce Psyche that she has never actually seen her husband. They believe he is the monster predicted by the oracle and tell her to kill him before he kills her. They give her a lamp so she can see him and a sword. (stained glass) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677157: Barnabe Visconti (1323-1385), seigneur of Milan - Bernabo Visconti, Lord of Milan, Italian soldier and statesman, 14th century - He wears a gold diadem, black armour, a white tabard embroidered in gold, gold spurs, iron gauntlets, and carries a sword and baton - From the monument to him in the church of Saint-Jean in Concha - Handcoloured illustration and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861 / Bridgeman Images
XRH1740233: Cover of the newspaper l Plate au Butter of 9 July 1912: About a soule woman. Speech after drink: Constitution... m in crazy.. Alsace Lorraine N. de D... put in it... send to Prussia... my father's sword... dry powder... everyone in it... Sakrament noch animal. Break up! Drawing of Ostoya. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572539: Brown dwarf with a large debris ring - Artist's view of a brown dwarf star surrounded by a disc of dust and rocks. In the foreground, a primitive exoplanet illuminated by the star. This imaginary high - mass brown dwarf has a larger disk than the previous renderings. The perspective is from the equator of an airless planet, orbiting the brown dwarf at a distance of about 4 million miles. This planet's orbit is very nearly aligned to the plane of the rings, hence the debris appears as a sword - like straight line / Bridgeman Images