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  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Death as a winged skeleton riding into battle. Etching by J. Gamelin after himself, 1778.
  • Boer War: an army surgeon at work on a battlefield where many lie injured. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: a pitched battle between the imperial army (left) and the revolutionary army (right). Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Vishnu as Matsya, the fish incarnation fighting a demon. Gouache drawing.
  • A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting attributed to a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • A battle scene: soldiers are shown fighting on horseback, with a cannon and ammunition seen in the foreground. Crayon manner print by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving by J. Stow, 1796, after J.B. Rigaud.
  • A battle with a scene of military surgery. Oil painting attributed to a Flemish painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • A parade of soldiers marching past l'Hopital Blindé and ambulancemen. Lithograph by Raffet.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
  • An advertisement for the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: showing the battle of Trafalgar. Coloured engraving by Lane, 1806, after H. A. Barker.
  • Dr Mackellar and Red Cross staff crossing the Morava river after the Battle before Alexinatz, Serbia. Wood engraving by G. Durand.
  • A battle between frogs and mice (Batrachomyomachia): a kite descends and kills the combatants. Etching.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553. Photogravure after T. Chartran, 1889.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
  • Shah Namah, the Persian Epic of the Kings
  • Memorial of events concerning Prussia from the year 1707. Engraving, c. 1722.