Burning Collection (page 15)

Herne & Mabel / Cruikshank
HERNE THE HUNTER Herne flying into the burning woods with Mabel

Sun / Carbon Burning / Kirch
The sun conceived as a mass of burning carbon. Date: 1635

USA / 1814 / Washington
The capture and burning of Washington by British troops

Warming Kettle by Fire
Keeping the water hot in a metal kettle by keeping it next to a hot coal fire on a long trivet

January C18Th
This month is shown as a man in purple robes burning incense. This month is named after the god Janus and considered sacred and an auspicious birthdate

Idols of Bible Times 3
Adremelech, in the form of a peacock, is the deity to which the idolatrous Sepharvites sacrifice their children, burning them in fire. (see Second Kings 17.31)

Smoke Trail, 1st Ww
The trail of smoke from the burning remnants of a German observation balloon

BURNING OWD BARTLE
Burning Owd Bartle, West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England, when an effigy stuffed with straw is burnt as thanksgiving to the Harvest God. Date: 24 August

French Village Ablaze
A French village set on fire by the Germans in their retreat during the First World War

Mcclellan Retreats
Union troops under McClellan are forced to retreat from the Chickahominy, Virginia : as he pulls out from his hq at Dr Trents Farm, stores and forage are destroyed by burning

Confederate Forces
After Gettysburg, the Confederate forces are increasingly hard-pressed by the Union; this corps is forced to march at night through burning woods

REFUGEES
A crowd of refugees flee from a burning town - whence they come, we know not : whither they go, they know not... they are representative of displaced people everywhere

Destroying Documents
Before the house search - Warned of an imminent visit from the police, a Russian subversive destroys incriminating letters and documents

French Town Hall Lit
For special occasions, public buildings such as this French hotel de ville would be lit with chandeliers burning many candles

Prehistoric Lamp
The cave-dwellers light their caves with lamps made of clay, burning oil derived from animal fat

Using Hoses during Blitz
Using a fire hose to douse burning buildings from boats on the River Thames, London

Burning of Savoy Palace
The burning of the Savoy Palace - Eleanor, Countess of March ( The Heroine of the Savoy ) confronts the mob

Gordon Riots 1780
THE GORDON RIOTS The Burning, Plundering and Destruction of Newgate at the hands of the No Popery mob

Burning Bacchus
In Norway, they re so respectable, they d burn Bacchus himself at the stake ! Date: 1919

Mob / Arson. Kent / 1830 / Fire
Mob burning hay-ricks in Kent

Ww1 / 1915 / Rising Sun Hot
When Japan enters the war, John Bull finds the Rising Sun a little too hot for him !

Alice / Snap-Dragon-Fly
The snap-dragon-fly: with the body of a plum- pudding, wings of holly leaves and the head of a raisin burning in brandy

Grimm / Devils Brother
Hans the soldier keeps the fires burning in hell for the devil and discovers his old general in one of the pots

Phantom Burning Ship
The phantom burning ship has been frequently seen off the North American coast, and on the Great Lakes

SNAPDRAGON
Mama presides over the snapdragon bowl while the children snatch the raisins from the burning brandy & try to eat them before they stop flaming

Buddhist Anaesthesia
BUDDHIST NOVICE PRIESTS at Setchuan, China, have burning incense placed on their shaven heads; it leaves deep scars but their training enables them to disregard the pain

French burn a Cuban town
The French occupy the Spanish-held town of Chiorera (Chorrera) in Cuba, pillage it and finally destroy it by fire, because of the perfidy of its inhabitants

North Sea Air Fight 1940
Aerial battle over the North Sea : highly imaginative Italian depiction showing a massive confrontation over Heligoland

Massacre of Dominicans at Sandomir, Poland
At Sandomir (now Sandomierz), a city on the River Vistula in south east Poland, 49 Dominicans are massacred by Tartars (or Tatars) invading from the east

Sacrifice by Romans before the the Battle of Capua
SECOND PUNIC WAR : A sacrifice to Apollo by the Romans before the Battle of Capua, held by the Carthaginians under Hannibal. The Romans were defeated, but managed to escape

Hannibal at Casilinum
SECOND PUNIC WAR : Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader, at Casilinum, sends cows with bunches of burning twigs attached to their horns, causing the Roman garrison at Callicula to flee in fear

Archimedes demonstrating reflecting mirrors
Archimedes, Greek mathematician and inventor, demonstrating the use of reflecting mirrors to set fire to enemy ships

Bleeding cross at Meliapur, India
A bleeding cross in a Portuguese mission at Meliapur, near Madras, India

Fire-Fighting
A fire fighting team use a pump to fill buckets to put out a burning building

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