FLO4622152: Gladiator sacrifice to the Aztec god Xipe Totec or Tlatlauhca, Mexico City. An Aztec warrior with sword and shield fights a captured enemy on a raised stage before an audience. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, 1843. / Bridgeman Images
GRL5962669: Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad: "Athena prevents Achilles from drawing his sword against Agamemnon", detail of King Agamemnon, 1756-57 (fresco), Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) (1696-1770) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4716677: The orchid of the poor and sword. Poor man's orchid, Schizanthus pinnatus, and gladiolus, Gladiolus communis. Handcoloured woodblock print from Konan Tanigami's “” Seiyou Sokazufu”” (Pictorial Album of Western Plants and Flowers: Summer), Unsodo, Kyoto, 1917. Tanigami (1879-1928) depicted 125 varieties of garden plants through the four seasons. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4708272: Knights fighting on horseback, dagger duel during a tournament. The two threw their sword on the ground and attack the dagger, the one on the left tries to prevent the attack on the other. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1796. / Bridgeman Images
ELD4846067: Jansenist convulsionary (or Saint Medard) (Works of convulsions) in the 18th century: “” experience of catalepsy and ansensitivities of a convulsionary, the young woman in convulsion gives herself blows”” (Convulsionnaire practices (Convulsionnaires of Saint-Medard) in the 18th century: secours at a convulsionary meeting, a young girl in convulsion bites herself with a sword) Engraving from “Les mysteres de la science” by Louis Figuier, Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
XEE4141809: War of Independence of the United States of America (1775-1783): American General Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) received the sword of Lord Cornwallis (1738-1805) from the hands of English General Charles O'Hara (1740-1802) during the surrender of Yorktown, 1781. engraving in “Histoire de France from the most remote times to the present day” by Jules Pacher. Patriotic imagery of Pont-a-Mousson. Late 19th century. Private collection., Pacher, Jules (19th-20th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4630623: The Coronation of King Henry IV of England (1367-1413), by the Evechs of Westminster Abbey, London, 1399 - Lithography from the enluminated manuscript of John (Jehan) Froissart's Chronicles (1337-1404), 1868 - The coronation of King Henry IV of England, 1399. The king is crowned by bishops in Westminster Abbey, while pages hold his coat of arms, helm and sword - Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles, London, 1868 / Bridgeman Images
STC427810: A young man wearing an embroidered jacket and waistcoat, engraved by Le Beau, plate no.253 from 'Galeries des Modes et Costumes Francais', c.1778-87 (coloured engraving) 99:clothing; traditional dress; traditional costume; fashion; illustration; c18th; fashionable; clothes; male; yellow; wig; hat; bowing; sword; weapon;, Watteau, Francois Louis Joseph (1758-1823) (after) / Bridgeman Images