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  • A young man with blood streaming down his face as a result of an attack by a drunken man. Colour lithograph for Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, ca. 2000.
  • An army of demons armed with clysters, one of which is a huge cannon, attack a man tied to a tree; suggesting the awful experience of having an enema. Pen drawing.
  • Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.
  • A young woman sits cowering on a couch as an angry man raises a walking cane to attack an unwelcome visitor, a straw boater and another cane lie on the side table. Line process print.
  • Beneath the broken equestrian statue of William III a group of robed politicians, including the Duke of Wellington, attack with scrolls Morrison the Mayor of Dublin, who collapses. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.
  • A boy has made a vase look like a person on which he can then launch an attack, broken pieces of china lie on the floor and a woman comes rushing in waving her arms in horror. Lithograph.
  • Three sea monsters with devils horns and tails attempt to attack a submarine in the form of a condom in which a couple can be seen kissing through the port hole; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Franco-Prussian War: Jean-Eugène Brasseur, commander of the French soldiers at Le Bourget who had resisted the Prussian attack, being removed from the church of Saint-Nicolas after the Prussian victory. Photogravure by Goupil & Co., 1879, after A. de Neuville.
  • An episode in the novel Old London Bridge by G.H. Rodwell: an attack by robbers on a cottage on Putney Heath, London, is resisted with gunfire by two of the occupants, Edward Osborne and The Cripple of the Bridge. Etching by A. Ashley, 1848.
  • Aspirin crystals. Aspirin was originally extracted from willow bark but is actually produced in all plants as a defence mechanism in response to damage or attack. Much higher levels are therefore found in less than perfect fruit and vegetables. Aspirin is used to treat pain, reduce fever and to prevent heart disease and cancer. Some people think it should be reclassified as a vitamin.
  • Defensive measures against gas attacks / C.F.N. MacReady.
  • Defensive measures against gas attacks / C.F.N. MacReady.
  • A Chinese military force attacks an encampment. Engraving by a Chinese artist.
  • A sperm whale attacks a giant squid. Colour line block after A. Twidle.
  • Don Quixote with a lance riding a horse attacks a barber. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Saint George: he attacks the dragon with his sword. Engraving by N. de Larmessin after Raphael.
  • Brazil: a puma attacks an ant eater in a forest with howling monkeys looking on. Coloured lithograph.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, the revolutionary women's army attacks Nanking. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • A can of the insecticide Le Nicotiné de St. Julien attacks insects with a sword and kills them. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • The stolen Host, sixth episode: the Jewish merchant attacks the Host with a lance, the bleeding Host. Etching by F. Ragot.
  • A man at the edge of the room waves his arms as a man attacks one of his friends. Etching by Robert Cruikshank.
  • The stolen Host, fourth episode: the Jewish merchant attacks the Host with a knife; the Host begins to bleed. Etching by F. Ragot.
  • Our lady of Deliverance. Invoked by expectant mothers for a safe delivery, though the work Deliverance originally was connected with freedom from attacks of enemies of all kinds.
  • HIV+ : the science : HIV attacks and weakens the immune system, the body's defence against disease / Camden & Islington Gay Men's Team ; illustration by Mark Blann.
  • HIV+ : the science : HIV attacks and weakens the immune system, the body's defence against disease / Camden & Islington Gay Men's Team ; illustration by Mark Blann.
  • Attackers hit by a barrage of fire from a castle. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora, 1859.
  • A shoemaker who has exchanged looks with a young woman customer lies on the floor holding his head as a woman (his wife?) attacks him with a spoon. Coloured lithograph.
  • A hawk-headed man attacks a crane; a woman standing on a boat reads her letter and a bird-headed man behind her reads the same letter. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1860s.