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  • Boer War: a casualty of the Battle of Modder River being loaded onto an ambulance. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, 1900.
  • A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting attributed to a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting attributed to a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting attributed to a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting attributed to a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A defeated hussar on the battlefield, whose horse has been killed while pulling a gun mounted on a chassis; a woman sympathizes. Mezzotint by V. Green after G. Carter, 1776.
  • A young woman laments the death of her husband as a knight in battle. Etching by J. Tenniel, 1861.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a large, bearded man carrying a wounded soldier. Gouache painting by S. L. Wood, c. 1904.
  • A grateful military leader presenting virtuous soldiers with awards and punishing corrupt soldiers in a ceremony. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The Hon. Hubert Howard on his deathbed. Pencil drawing by George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.
  • Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon visiting wounded soldiers in a church used as a field hospital after the battle. Coloured lithograph.
  • Russo-Japanese War: wounded soldiers slouched on benches and on stretchers on a stone floor. Watercolour.
  • Jeremiah sits amidst the rubble of Jerusalem, after its siege and destruction in 586 B.C. Lithograph by B. Weiss after E.J.F. Bendemann.
  • Marshal Duroc, with scenes of his campaigns and his death bed. Lithograph by de Lemercier after V. Adam and N. Maurin.
  • Boer War: men lying in a military hospital housed in a public school at Mafeteng, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after M. Maseru.
  • A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.
  • Venus appears to Aeneas while he is being treated after being wounded in battle. Engraving by L. Desplaces after J.B. Nattier, 17--.
  • The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese ambulance men at work on a battlefield. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson, 1904.
  • Boer War: a group of wounded war veterans at the docks in England. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph.
  • Count de Peltzer lying mortally wounded on his bed attended by his fiancée Mlle de Benskow, her mother and her brother, and a boy bringing soup for the dying man. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.