ID: PCT4285061

Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for Ernest Lepine's book “La legende de Croquemitaine”” (1863) - In front of this image of fighting with the sword against a gigantic araignee, one cannot help but think of the battle of Frodo and Aragne in Tolkien's “Lord of the Rings” -

Dore, Gustave (1832-83)

ID: JLJ4640768

Outfit of French troops at all times: Cavalry Sabre (litho)

Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931)

ID: JLJ4639000

Illustration from the book "Les epees de France": Un duel en 1894; Coll, 1894 (engraving)

Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931)

ID: JLJ4641032

Outfit of French troops at all times: Arms of Troops, Group 1 (litho)

Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931)

ID: TRK832047

Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881). Engraving.

ID: LZT5495095

Justice endormie - Barthel Beham (German, 1502 - 1540), ""Der Welt Lavf"" (Sleeping Justice), 1525, engraving

ID: SRR6370002

St. Paul, 1616-1617 (oil on panel)

Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641)

ID: RUS447500

Design for a stained glass window showing the Archangel Michael in Liverpool Cathedral (w/c on paper)

Rhead, George Woolliscroft (1855-1920)

ID: SBL862890

The Battle of Ponte dell'Ammiraglio, 1955 (oil on canvas)

Guttuso, Renato (1912-87)

ID: MEB853698

Ulysses Unmasking Achilles, 1550 (fresco)

Italian School, (16th century)

ID: MEP850371

Tarot Card, by Renato Guttuso, 1972, 20th Century, Casa Editrice La Trace Modenese, print run 250 copies, 12.5 x 19 cm

Guttuso, Renato (1912-87)

ID: MAM714302

Bando Hikosaburo III as Kudo Saemon Suketsune, 1807 (woodblock print)

Toyokuni, Utagawa (1769-1825)

ID: MEB1191348

Medea, by unknown artist, 20-25, 1st Century A.D., ripped fresco, 101 x 130 cm

ID: HRP2624608

The King's Staircase, Hampton Court Palace, 1939 (oil on board)

Hampton, William Herbert (fl.1939)

ID: HRP2625043

Queen Anne surrounded by a host of personified virtues, detail of The Queen's Drawing Room ceiling, 1699 (painted ceiling)

Verrio, Antonio (1639-1707)

ID: FLO4723785

Le chah (shah ou schah) de Persia - Shah of Persia with long beard and elaborately bejeweled crown, ceremonial robes, belt, dagger, and sword - Handcoloured woodcut by E. Vermorcken and Mercier after an illustration by H. Hendrickx from “” Mores, Uses and Costumes of All Peoples of the World, Asia,” by Augudonste Wahlen, pseudo ym of Jean Francois Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), Bookshop Historique Artistique, Brussels, 1845

ID: FLO4690715

Japanese oiran and samurai. Japanese courtesan in kimono with fan and hair ornaments, and two Japanese samurai in chonmage hairstyle wearing montsuki over hakama with two swords (katana) in their belts. (Titled Chinese in error.) Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.

Brodtmann, Karl Joseph (1787-1862)

ID: FLO4705309

A common Croat wearing a coat lined with fox fur. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Peoples of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the New Era,”” written by Leopold Ziegelhauser, Vienna, 1837. Illustration from Cesare Vecellio's Habiti antichi e moderni, Venice, 1590.

ID: FLO4706580

Armed Muscovite on football, 16th century. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Peoples of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the New Era,”” written by Leopold Ziegelhauser, Vienna, 1837. Illustration from Cesare Vecellio's Habiti antichi e moderni, Venice, 1590.

ID: FLO6338925

Suit of armour and seal (Karolus) of Charlemagne or Charles the Great, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Romans, 748-814

Villain (19th century)

ID: FLO6340088

Ferdinand III, King of Castille, with helm, hauberk, tunic, sword, pennant, shield with coat of arms, and Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon, wife of Robert of Clermont, 1257-1310, from her tomb effigy in Cordeliers Convent de Champagne

Villain (19th century)

ID: HGP956607

12th Light Dragoons British soldier with drawn sabre, c 1800, reenactment

ID: MEP2338058

Benito Mussolini on a weekly magazine cover

ID: VRM1962028

Woman in Armor Kneeling

ID: UTD2839497

Charles's Swords

ID: MEP2824794

Il corsaro nero by Sergio Sollima, 1976

ID: UTD2841777

Samurai with servant

ID: XIR70355

Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846) King of Holland and Louis Napoleon (1804-31) Crown Prince of Holland, c.1806 (oil on canvas)

Wicar, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1762-1834) (after)

ID: CH989939

Promenade on an Indian Street, (oil on canvas)

Weeks, Edwin Lord (1849-1903)

ID: XJF265862

King Charles I, drawn by J.L.Williams and engraved by A.Bourne (engraving)

Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641) (after)

ID: CH15825

Battle Scene, illustration from the 'Shahnama' (Book of Kings), 10th/11th century (illustration)

Indian School

ID: CHT420071

Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans, c.1900 (colour litho)

Lix, Frederic Theodore (1830-97) (after)

ID: TRK879991

Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523). Engraving. Colored.

ID: MPX5120987

A party of Sikhs drive around the tarmac at Heathrow airport with Sikh, Kilburchan Singh holding sacred sword which he has brought back to England to baptise member of the Sikh Community, April 1967 (b/w photo)

ID: PFH1169099

China: Lu Dongbin, one of the Daoist 'Eight Immortals'. A historical figure who is mentioned in the official 'History of Song', He is depicted as being dressed as a scholar and he often bears a sword on his back that dispels evil spirits.

ID: NCO190188

The Magnanimous Minister Chastising Prussian Perfidy, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1806 (hand-coloured etching)

Gillray, James (1757-1815)