Captive Collection

The Thief - painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa
Postcard image after a painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa La Ladrona (" The Thief" ) in the los Tiros art gallery in Granada, Spain

Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter Rothschild
Rothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898

Churchill captured during the Boer War
Winston Churchill as a prisoner of war after being captured during the Boer War while working as a correspondent for the Morning Post

Thylacinus cynocephalus, thylacine
The last known thylacine, or Tasmanian Wolf, to survive in captivity. It died on 7 September 1936 in the Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania

Anglo-Saxon by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" You re comin along with me, my lad, as soon as this is over!" (Hermann feels he DOES know a better ole)

Man in the Iron Mask, playing the cello in prison
There are conflicting theories as to who this man was

Hiram Maxim?s captive flying machine ? ?Aerial Roundabout
Sir Hiram Maxim?s captive flying machine ? ?Aerial Roundabout?, circa 1904. Date: circa 1904

Indian Elephant in London Zoo 1896
Jung Perchard the Indian elephant was presented to Prince of Wales (Edward VII), during the shooting expeditions in Indian twenty years before in 1876

Emu by Gambier Bolton
Emu photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring

Gorilla gorilla gorilla, western lowland gorilla

Cyrus at Babylon
THE FALL OF BABYLON Kurash II (Cyrus), king of Persia, takes Babylon and allows the captive Jews to return home, restoring the vessels of their Temple

Scipio reuniting a captive Carthaginian woman with her fiance. A fine example of the virtue of Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. Bel exemple de la vertu de Publius-Scipion

Fame triumphs over Death from Petrarch's Triumphs, 1500
Fame triumphs over Death. A winged goddess with crown and golden trumpet brings the captive cadaver of Death on her chariot. In French costume of the late 15th century

Caratacus speaking before Emperor Claudius
Caratacus, captive British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, speaking in chains before Emperor Claudius (10BC-54AD) in the Roman Senate. Caractacus before Claudius. Copperplate engraving from M

English gentleman held captive by two Papal guards in uniform in a room in Avignon. A prisoner at Avignon

Chilean cannibals, 1910
Chilean bandits butcher and eat Armenian immigrants. Date: 1910

Father Serapion martyred in Algeria, North Africa
Father Serapion, an English or Irish Mercedarian friar, offers himself as a hostage in order to free captive Christians in Algeria, North Africa

An Assyrian Humiliating His Captive

WW2 - Jack Takes A Captive
A WW2 children's short story illustration for Jack Takes A Captive, written by Dorothy Black. Date: circa 1940s

The Peacemakers
This tempera painting shows a ransacked area, where some military men are holding a blonde haired woman captive, with the proprietor sat at the table with a rope around his neck. Date: circa 1918

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Jingo the Zoo Elephant Goes to America 1903
Jingo a African elephant replacement to Jumbo at Zoological Society's Gardens (London Zoo). Children having a ride around Regent's Park

MAGIC FLUTE LIEBIG 3
(The Magic Flute) Act 1, Scene 10 : Monostatos makes unwelcome advances to the captive Pamina, but Papageno scares him away and tells Pamina about Tamino. Date: first performed 1791

The Whale at the Westminster Aquarium - capture, transportation to London, attention en route, arrival and finally swimming in the Aquarium pond. Date: 1877

Columbus is received by Ferdinand and Isabella
Christopher Columbus is solemnly received by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain under a canopy outside. Columbus stands before Isabella with several captive native people kneeling before him

Convicted Communard Prisoners - Fort d Enet
Incarcerated in the Fort d Enet, in the harbour of the Ile d Aix, convicted Communards gaze out and contemplate the chances of escape...are incarcerated. 1871

Christmas present - Miniature Barnum Great Menagerie 1908
Edwardian children would have loved this gift for Christams, miniature wild animal figures in captive cages, for the nursery. 1908

King Henry I chastises his older brother Robert
King Henry I (1100-1135) - chastises his older brother Robert, the Duke of Normandy who had been defeated at the Battle of Tenchebrai (Tinchebray or Tinchebrai) on 28 September 1106. 1106

Exhibition of trained animals
Manifested in England from a very early period, for manuscripts of twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contain numerous representations of dogs, horses, pigs, goats cocks, bears

THE HALFPENNY BOAT
In 1861 the halfpenny boat is still the cheapest and most convenient way to get around London : street vendors seize the opportunity to offer their goods to a captive market. Date: 1861

JEWS IN CAPTIVITY
Nebuchadnezzar II, after defeating the Jews, takes many of them captive to Babylon, where they are very unhappy Date: 597 BC

LOUIS I MADE CAPTIVE
Louis I (le Pieux) remarries and wishes to give his new son part of his heritage; this infuriates his already dissatisfied sons, who arrest and try to depose him Date: 833

N de Silva in Auroras Captive, by Tom Gallon. early 1910s

Norway - Two Polar Bear Cubs. Date: 1920s

Sir Hiram Maxim?s workshop at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where he built his captive aeroplane, 1890

Hansel & Gretel held captive by the witch. 20th century

Egypt - Marco the Comedian Monkey
Marco the Comedian Monkey - obviously a well-known performing monkey on the streets of Cairo, Egypt

Cannibals / Alive
A captive eaten alive by members of the Antis tribe of Peru

Indian Man Sacrificed
Indians at Goomsur dance merrily round a captive before they sacrifice him to their god(s) Date: 1838

Sacrifice, Madagascar
MADAGASCAR A wife grieves as her captive husband awaits the moment when the fire is good and ready and he will be sacrificed. Date: circa 1840

Partial Ascent of the New Steam Captive Balloon
Poster advertising the Partial Ascent of the New Steam Captive Balloon, Ashburnham Park, Kings Road, Chelsea, September 7th 1868 Date: 1868

Fun on the flying machine at Southport, Merseyside
Fun on Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride at Southport, Merseyside, which opened in 1904

Naaman and Elisha
Naaman, king of Syria (at war with Israel, of course) is cured of his leprosy when his Israeli captive advises him to consult prophet Elisha, who recommends bathing in Jordan

Cloelia escapes back to Rome by swimming the Tiber
Cloelia, given as a hostage to the Etruscan king, Lars Porsenna of Clusium, escapes back to Rome by swimming the Tiber, taking several other Roman girls with her

Captive Elephant at the Botanical Gardens, Saigon, Vietnam circa 1906

Eugene Godard
EUGENE GODARD: French aeronaut, best known for the captive balloon at the Paris Exposition which attracted enormous numbers of visitors. We have many pictures of it. Date: 1827? - 1890

Iraq / Archaeology / Various
A whole variety of artifacts, and reliefs, both in situ and alone, from many of the major sites of ancient Iraq. These include Kalhu (Tell Nimrud) and Nineveh (Tell Kuyunjik)

C. Harris feeding Galapagos tortoises, 1898
Sailor and explorer Charles Harris was despatched to the Galapagos islands to collect giant tortoises for Walter Rothschild in 1897

Transporting Giant tortoises
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Nasua nasua coati, South American coati
Watercolour by Frederick Frohawk, 1902, from London Zoo resident Date: 1902

Illustration, Hansel and Gretel -- Hansel, put out your finger for me to feel how fat you are. Date: 1909

A Jewish woman and captured Hebrew standing under a palm tree next to two shields

Captive king of the Gauls and a pensive British woman

Persian woman and captive king of the Gauls

Dacian warrior with axe and a German captive

Two Amazons with shields and weapons, the one below a captive in battledress

VALUE
Conquest of Santo Domingo, 1501. Engraving

Sphere cover - British corporal with small German captives
A stalwart British corporal pictured with two German captives in a photograph which deliberately highlights the difference in stature of the men

German prisoners of war in Great Britain at the start of war
Immediately after the declaration of war, most of the German and Austrian residents of military age in Britain were made prisoners and confined within barbed wire compounds under military guard

How the war has alterd the outlook on sport
Football crowds comparing then (1914, top) from now (1916, bottom)

Aeroplane in modern warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in modern warfare: how the aeroplanes of the combatant powers have fared. Left: dropping bombs from an aeroplane onto massed troops below

Marie Antoinette Note
A note pricked with a needle by the captive queen : I am closely watched, I speak to no one. I confide myself to you, I will come. Date: circa October 1793

Native Policemen, Natal, South Africa and their prisoner Date: circa 1901

Entertainments at Southport, Merseyside including Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride (which opened in 1904), helter skelter lighthouse

Whaaru (Leader of the Hursthouse Rescue Party) wearing a cloak and holding a taiaha and his wife on the porch of Huatare Wahanuis House, Alexandra, New Zealand

Captive balloon with limbered balloon-kite winch wagon

Naja haje haje, Egyptian cobra
An Egyptian cobra emerging from a ceramic urn and coiling into its characteristic aggressive hissing stance

Gymnogyps californianus, Californian condor
Plate 426 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Alhambra. Torre de la Cautiva (Tower of the Captive). SPAIN. Granada. Alhambra. Hispano-Moresque art. Nasrid dynasty

Army Manoeuvres in Bucks
Grand Army Manoeuvres in Bucks Military Attaches on Ptchcott Hill and the captive baloon near Aylesbury.. Date: 1907

Captured by soldiers. Source unknown

Siege of Paris- Balloon
A captive balloon at Montmartre. Date: 1870

Ascension captive. 42, avenue de Suffren tous les jours de 1 e 5 h. Exposition de l aerostat et des machines.... Broadside announcing a captive balloon ascension during the Paris Exposition of 1867

Five technical illustrations show network of ropes and apparatus for securing multi-passenger platforms on captive balloons; arrangement of ropes for netting;

Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform showing network of ropes and balloon basket with about 10 occupants. Date between 1880 and 1890

Design drawing for system to raise and lower a captive balloon, controlled by four ropes forming a pyramidal shape and operated by winches on the ground below. Date between 1820 and 1870

Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Date between 1880 and 1900

Two mythological Buddhist or Hindu figures, one holding a captive and showing him an image in a magic mirror of a man falling off a boat during a fight. Date 1878?

Silhouettes of wartime scenes with soldiers
Silhouettes of wartime scenes, showing soldiers in various situations. From the top: every dog has his day, the last straw, empty vessels cause the most sound, and a couple is not always a pair

Austrian prisoners given soap by their Italian captors - World War One. Date: circa 1915

Austrian officers captured by the Russians, WW1
Austrian officers captured by the Russians during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1915

Assassination of William Morgar
New York journalist, William Morgar, is held captive by an angry mob of Free-Masons. Having previously belonged to the order, he was denounced after publishing the secret rituals of the sect

Idealised German prisoner of war camp, WW1
An artists impression of an idealised German prisoner of war camp, Munster II, during the First World War

Freemasonry and the Homeland
Two captive officers, discovered to be Masons, are treated with certain privileges not usually seen in war prisoners. 1890s

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