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  • Women taking leave of British soldiers about to depart on ship from England to India, 1857. Process print after Henry O'Neil.
  • Spanish soldiers slaughtering and drowning men and women in the streets of Maastricht. Etching.
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • Two women visit two soldiers at their training camp on Coxhead Common, Kent. Engraving after T. Stothard, 1781.
  • Crimean War: women nurses tending wounded soldiers as "woman's mission". Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1854, after H. Barraud.
  • Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by soldiers. Etching.
  • Boer War: soldiers in packed train carriages receive tea from women and children on the ground. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after M. Ellis.
  • 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.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: a woman in the centre surrounded by candles in holders, a man (Frederic Leighton RA) with a box of collars, a goose girl, soldiers in battle and women at tables. Wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers after J.G Thomson, 1871.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: men and women eating and drinking, a soldier's boots being cleaned, a woman tending to a child and figures hanging over a line. Wood engraving.
  • Head of a woman soldier, a member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Colour lithograph after Abram Games, 1944.
  • World War One: a military doctor is dressing the wound of a Russian woman soldier in a trench. Watercolour by F. Matania, 1917.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A soldier bends down to put some money into the hand of an old lady who is sitting on the side of the road. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1829.
  • The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.
  • Judith and her maid hide Holofernes' head. Woodcut.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded being treated at Rezonville. Coloured wood engraving by Xylographisches Institut von A. Closs.
  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.
  • A male and female warrior dispute over a child lying prone underneath; representing rhetoric. Etching by C. Schut.
  • Franco-Prussian War: the wounded being taken to Strasbourg Cathedral. Wood engraving.
  • The crucifixion of Christ; beneath the cross are positioned the four Maries, a soldier and a horse. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.
  • Christ carrying the cross amidst a long procession. Engraving by N. Larmessin after Raphael.
  • World War I: poster for production of box respirators
  • Nottingham: soldiers in World War I, some of them wounded, standing on a verandah used for open-air treatment. Photograph, 1917.
  • A Turkish army taking a town fortification mutilating, flaying and disembowelling their enemies behind the lines. Etching.