Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
166 results
  • A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • A guard carrying a rifle, a sword and a bugle horn (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A boy with Down's syndrome, holding a rifle and sitting on a fur carpet. Photograph by R.W. Morris.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt walks, carrying a rifle with fixed bayonet. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A huntsman is thrown backwards as the barrel of his rifle explodes. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • A huntsman stalking prey with his two dogs holding his rifle under his right arm. Etching by J. Tookey after J. C. Ibbetson.
  • A giraffe standing in a rocky landscape is approached by a hunter with a rifle. Etching by J. Tookey after J. C. Ibbetson.
  • A man in the desert carrying a rifle in one hand and a water pouch over his shoulder. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A young couple sitting on a grassy bank, he has a shooting rifle on his shoulder and she has a basket on her lap. Stipple engraving.
  • Prisoners in Cape Town with spades and a wheelbarrow are digging a hole in the road: a guard with a rifle stands by. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • A soldier has dropped his rifle and is falling as a wardrobe and other items fall down around his head. Lithograph by Langlumé after C. Philipon.
  • A man in a loin cloth carries a rifle in his right hand, leaning against his shoulder: he walks, turns and walks back. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, holding a rifle in his right hand, raises it, angled behind his head and lowers it again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A young man learning to shoot aims a rifle at a pet bird tied to a stile; a companion backs against the wall to get out of the way. Lithograph by R. Seymour.
  • A huntsman is enveloped by a sudden fall of snow from an overhanging tree branch, causing him to drop his rifle which discharges accidentally. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt carries a rifle in his right hand at hip height, lies on the ground on his front and takes aim. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand, transfers it to his left then holds it at an angle across his torso. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand: he grasps it with his left, raises then lowers it, resting the butt on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Hunting waterfowl on a river in January: two men and their dogs are shown in a punt, while another man stands on the riverbank, holding a rifle. Coloured aquatint by R. G. Reeve after R. B. Davies, 1836.
  • Dead game animals and birds, lying beside a rifle: a long-beaked bird and a hare are shown hanging by their feet, with another small bird lying on the ground. Mixed method print attributed to James Ward, ca. 1794.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt transfers a rifle from his left to his right hand, holds it out in front of him, raises it to his right shoulder and stands to attention. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman with a wig in one hand and an umbrella in the other stands shouting as a man cleans the barrel of a rifle and a dog stands nearby with a bone in his mouth. Stipple engraving by H. Bunbury.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt carries a rifle in his right hand at hip height, holds it in front of him as he falls backwards on to the ground, his left hand holding his head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A variety of methods of torture: a man has been rolled into a carpet and is dragged to death by a horse, a woman is hit with a rifle-butt and a man is tied to a post outside a hut. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after B. Castelli.
  • A Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • An alchemist in a long robe standing reading above an open chest of books which he has rifled through; a large vaulted hall surrounds him, littered with alchemical apparatus. Pen and pencil drawing by J. Nasmyth, 1854.
  • An alchemist in a long robe standing reading above an open chest of books which he has rifled through; a large vaulted hall surrounds him, littered with alchemical apparatus. Pen and pencil drawing by J. Nasmyth, 1854.
  • An alchemist in a long robe standing reading above an open chest of books which he has rifled through; a large vaulted hall surrounds him, littered with alchemical apparatus. Pen and pencil drawing by J. Nasmyth, 1854.
  • Armaments: a variety of sporting guns. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Armaments: a variety of sporting guns. Engraving, c.1861.