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  • Two sepoys, holding swords. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Three Chinese women with swords. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Two Sikh men dueling with wooden swords. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Schucha, Caucasus: a funeral procession of men holding swords. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • Two sepoys (native soldiers) holding rifles and swords. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Japan: two samurai in traditional robes with swords. Coloured photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • A procession with figures carrying swords and shields. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Coat of arms: urns, crossed swords and motto. Watercolour and oil attributed to S. Jenner, ca. 1850 (?).
  • An Spanish soldier facing an Italian soldier with their swords crossed. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman after C. Elliott.
  • Men on horseback with swords are chasing a balloon in the sky. Coloured wood engraving by Smeeton after Forrvielle.
  • Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.
  • Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.
  • Two men on horseback, one clutching a child are being pursued by others brandishing swords. Etching by D. Félix, 1866.
  • A Prussian soldier facing a Swiss soldier with their curved swords crossed. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman after C. Elliott.
  • A group of children dress up as soldiers in helmets and carry swords. Lithograph by N.T. Charlet after himself.
  • An English soldier facing a French soldier with their swords crossed. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after C. Elliott.
  • Two men in posing pouches thrust and parry with swords held in their right hands. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cutler, or maker of knives, daggers and swords, working in his shop as a customer tests the weight of a sword. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • People in a forest being attacked by robbers with guns and swords. Etching by J.B.C. Chatelain after Marco Ricci.
  • A Men Sheu (warrior spirit) brandishing two swords, with a small figure carrying a flower at his side. Colour woodcut, China 18--.
  • An Austrian soldier facing a Russian soldier with their swords raised in their hands. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman after C. Elliott.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet being led to execution by two Chinese men holding swords. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • An episode in Baldo by Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocai): in Mantua Baldus is beaten by men with swords, clubs and a halberd. Etching.
  • A battle: an army wearing metal armour, and firing guns, meets an army wearing hats and breastplates, wielding swords and guns. Line engraving.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by soldiers. Etching.
  • A line of young women are dancing under an arch created by the swords of their male dancing partners. Etching by Ad. Lalauze after W.Q. Orchardson.
  • The Dreyfus case: an eagle wearing eyeglasses, representing Alfred Dreyfus, is imprisoned in a cage; men are poking him with their swords. Drawing by A.S. Boyd, ca. 1902.
  • Three men (Chinese or Korean?), two are sitting on chairs and the other is standing, all of them have swords by their sides. Wood engraving by M.G.J. Pibaraud.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.