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  • A battlefield littered with corpses of soldiers and carcasses of horses during a fierce cavalry battle. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A Persian nobleman/warrior in traditional dress, riding a horse, with two men, also on horse-back, following behind. Lithograph after A.O. Orlovski, ca. 1821.
  • Cavalry drill in the mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Cavalry marching through a mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Denbigh Hall Bridge carrying the London and Birmingham Railway at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire: soldiers on horseback ride under the bridge as a train passes overhead. Engraving by W. Radclyffe, 1839, after G. Dodgson.
  • Crimean War: carrying the wounded to Balaklava, Russia. Wood engraving.
  • The War in Egypt: the Calabria ship interior. Wood engraving by W.P.
  • Crimean War: the siege of Sebastopol, collecting the wounded using Dr. Smith's new hospital ambulances. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.
  • The crusaders attack Jerusalem: Godfrey is wounded; an angel brings a medicinal herb to accomplish what the surgeon cannot. Etching by Antonio Tempesta, 16--.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.
  • A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.
  • A man in a fez is leading a richly decorated horse past an ornamental balcony towards a landscaped garden. Etching by M. E. Ridinger after J. E. Ridinger.