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  • Above, a palatial funeral pyre is set on fire; below, Roman soldiers staging a fight with swords before a funeral pyre with a body layed out in state. Etching with engraving.
  • The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • A man with a large moustache and a woman with a large heart on her costume, both in fencing dress and carrying swords. Coloured line process by Yves & Barret after A. Robida.
  • Opening of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel: a group of soldiers with false moustaches and beards stand with swords, a mace and a furled flag. Wood engraving by C.J.B. (?) after R. Linklater, 1871.
  • Opening of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel: a group of soldiers with false moustaches and beards stand with swords, a mace and a furled flag. Wood engraving by C.J.B. (?) after R. Linklater, 1871.
  • A man is walking with a stick and has a drum strapped to his back, two dogs in fancy dress are with him and a boy who is carrying a hoop and two swords. Engraving by Giovanni Volpato after Francesco Maggiotto.
  • Types of sword (?)
  • Types of sword (?)
  • Sword swallower's Oesophagus and Heart Piercing
  • Left, a knife sharpener sharpening a knife; right, a sword sharpener, sharpens a sword. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Iron Sword, Javelins, and other Instruments, from Brushfield
  • James Figg the pugilist on stage holding his sword. Etching..
  • A physician in traditional costume with sword, France 17--. Coloured engraving.
  • A man carrying a sword is standing on a rock. Engraving.
  • A young man is flexing a sword to test its strength as the sword maker looks on and tests another one. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht after A. Laby.
  • A woman with a sword and a balance; representing justice. Etching, 16--.
  • Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden by a sword-bearing angel. Woodcut.
  • Statue of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Represented with spiked wheel, sword and palm.
  • A skeleton dressed as a devil with sword. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1898.
  • Constellation of Perseus, holding a severed head and sword, from Persian Manuscript 373
  • Saint Eufemia. Various representations, she probably had sword and palm in this statue.
  • Seventeen fishes; including a sturgeon, sword fish, narwhal and whale. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A Chinese talisman of a warrior with sword. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • A Chinese talisman of a warrior with sword. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • William Gladstone, amid clouds, dressed as an angel with a sword. Engraving, ca. 1880.
  • A man with a dagger or foreshortened sword. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a young man with a samurai sword. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a young man with a samurai sword. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • A Sikh Maharaja or nobleman holding a blue sword. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An actor dressed in black with a sword. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.