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  • Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Crowds gather at the parade ground of the Honourable Artillery Company in London to watch two hot-air balloons. Gouache.
  • Calipers for artillery measurement, with many formulae engraved on them. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • American soldiers loading artillery; analogous to the ravages of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Transporting artillery by boat across the river Beas, Himachal Pradesh. Coloured lithograph after Alexander Jack, c. 1847.
  • Honourable Artillery Company ground, London: people gather in the streets and on roof tops to watch the Lunardi hydrogen balloon going over their heads in the sky, 1784. Process print.
  • Saint Francis Xavier (?), holding a crucifix and supported by artillery, is preaching to a group of native Americans (?). Etching, 17--.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a radial overhead crane for carrying heavy artillery pieces in different sectors of the factory. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • An ill man pulling a grotesque face and holding a cup. Coloured aquatint.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • A battlefield littered with corpses of soldiers and carcasses of horses during a fierce cavalry battle. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Marie de Medici dressed in warlike form as Minerva, goddess of arts. Engraving by J.B. Massé, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Why suffer from asthma? / Potter and Clarke, Limited.
  • Figures with measuring instruments and a cannon; representing geometry and military science. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Truth represented as the word of God assailed by persecution, superstition, tradition, betrayal and violence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.
  • The goddess Diana presiding over military figures representing the choleric temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • The goddess Diana presiding over military figures representing the choleric temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A man carrying a flag is riding on a camel. Coloured lithograph by Hullmandel after A. Orlowski.
  • A man carrying a flag is riding on a camel. Coloured lithograph by Hullmandel after A. Orlowski.
  • A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.
  • Crowds of people gathered in a square, with hot-air balloons on the ground. Coloured wood engraving after Corbould, 1884.
  • Riza Orhan. Pencil drawing by H.C.S. Wright, 1911.
  • The old Herb Shop in Covent Garden. Photograph, 1922.
  • Charles Spurway. Photograph.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Edwin Davis, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791.