Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.

David steals a spear and jug from Saul, who lies deep in a sleep imposed by God. Engraving.

Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio. 

The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.

A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.

Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.

Sthenelos bandaging the wounded finger of Diomedes. Ink drawing after a Chalcidian neck-amphora c. 550 B.C.

Narasimha disembowelling Hiranyakasipu in front of his son and attendants. Chromolithograph, 1883.

A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.

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The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

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A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

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1 print : etching ; platemark 24.1 x 34.8 cm

The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.

Page 126: Durga with her arms on her mount being led by Hanuman. Watercolour drawing.

Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.

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The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.

Page 126: Durga with her arms on her mount being led by Hanuman. Watercolour drawing.

Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.

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The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.

Page 126: Durga with her arms on her mount being led by Hanuman. Watercolour drawing.

Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.

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