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  • A brigand chief holding a firearm. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1828, after W. Bagg.
  • A bullet extractor, English
  • A bullet extractor which screwed into the soft lead of the bullet.
  • A bullet extractor which screwed into the soft lead of the bullet.
  • A bullet extractor which screwed into the soft lead of the bullet.
  • A bullet extractor, English
  • A gun maker is working at the window of his workshop, talking to a customer. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
  • Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • Shooting skirmish below mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • A penis in the shape of a gun labelled with words meaning "think of the condom, thank you"; representing prevention of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Gérard Paris-Clavel, 1993.
  • A tooth-drawer performing to a crowd accompanied by a howling patient, a monkey and a man dressed in Roman costume. Coloured lithograph by Lavrate(?).
  • The death of General Montgomery, at Quebec, all around are soldiers and native Americans. Coloured engraving by J. C. Armytage after J. Trumbull.
  • The death of General Montgomery, at Quebec, all around are soldiers and native Americans. Engraving by J. Thomson after J. Trumbull.
  • A Montenegrin man wearing national dress with medals, with a pistol in his belt and holding a tobacco pipe.
  • World War One: soldiers escorting wounded men from a war damaged building. Photogravure, 1916, after F. Matania.
  • Franco-German War: a French soldier high in a tree orders a group of well equipped Germans to stop firing on him. Colour lithograph.
  • A gun with the 'safe' catch highlighted within a red circle representing a safe-sex advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by John Clang Photography, ca. 1997.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and ships. Engraving by J. Rogers after B. West, the elder, 1770.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and ships. Engraving by C. Guttenberg, after B. West, 1770.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and the masts of ships. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1776, after B. West, the elder, 1770.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and the masts of ships. Engraving by J. Thomson, 1813, after B. West, the elder, 1770.
  • Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
  • A wounded soldier is found by a rescue dog who alerts the nurse and ambulancemen of their whereabouts. Coloured chromolithograph by E.A. Holloway, 1904.
  • The death of General Sir John Moore at Corunna: he is supported by a Highlander as Hardinge hastens to help him, in the background more soldiers. Engraving after J. Trumbull.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and ships. Engraving by N. de Launay, after B. West, 1770.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers gathered in a temporary dressing station concealed in a hollow. Collotype, 1904.
  • Nashrullah Khan (son of the Amir of Afghanistan) having a tooth extracted in front of the soldiers of his father's army. Wood engraving after W. Small after J.A. Gray.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.
  • Boer War: the convalescent Lord Edward Cecil saluting an armed guard at Mafeking (Mahikeng). Halftone, c. 1900, after S.P.Hall, after a photograph.