Decapitation Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
Sir Gawain takes up the challenge. As instructed by the Green Knight, he swings the battleaxe and cuts off the Green Knights head. The head falls off and rolls towards the banqueting guests

Illustration, Sweetheart Roland -- The Maiden fetched the magic wand, and then she took her stepsisters head. Date: 1909

Illusionist magic show by Pharos, with fake decapitation. Date: circa 1900s

Staged Seppuku Harakiri Ceremony - Japan
A (thankfully) staged Seppuku or Harakiri ceremony (from the late Edo period) of ritual suicide. A Japanese man has opened a cut in his abdomen in front of two witnesses

Judith and Holofernes, 1624, by Valentin de Boulogne
Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632). French Baroque painter. Judith and Holofernes, 1624. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

David with the Head of Goliath. 1620s by Domenico Fetti
Domenico Fetti (1589-1624). Italian painter. David with the Head of Goliath. 1620s. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. Depiction of a battle. Islamic art. Miniature Painting

General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) fording the River Kaitna, Battle of Assaye, western India, 23 September 1803

Bonze defies decapitation
Japanese Bonze (Buddhist priest/monk) defies decapitation miraculously Date: circa 1860

SAINT DENIS Bishop of Paris, patron saint of France. Martyred by decapitation. Date: - 258AD

The Lifeguardsman who Dropped It by H. M. Bateman
One of H. M. Batemans most brilliant cartoons - a guard of honour at a wedding goes horribly wrong. 1935

Henry W. J. Byng, Vanity Fair, STUFF
HENRY WILLIAM JOHN BYNG, 4th Earl of Strafford (1831-1899) British peer and courtier. Had the misfortune of being decapitated by a train at Potters Bar

Peletier De St Fargeau
LOUIS MICHEL LEPELETIER de ST FARGEAU - French revolutionary statesman, assassinated by a garde du corps after he voted for Louiss decapitation. With his autograph Date: 1760 - 1793

Peletier De St Fargeau 2
LOUIS MICHEL LEPELETIER de ST FARGEAU - French revolutionary statesman, assassinated by a garde du corps after he voted for Louiss decapitation. Date: 1760 - 1793

Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. 12th c. SWITZERLAND. Mustair. Convent of St. John. Decoration of the apses. Romanesque art. Fresco

Poster warning about safety on the airfield. Watch that prop. Careless walk costs lives. Showing a pilot losing his head by walking into a spinning propeller. 1940s

Playbill for Maskelyne & Cooke magical variety show
Playbill for performances of the show The Novelty of the Age, featuring magicians Maskelyne and Cooke, held at Berkley Castle, Blackpool, January 1870

Massacres at Lyon
Six thousand people are slaughtered by revolutionary forces when they finally take Lyon, which has resisted the extremist activities of the Paris authorities

Italians Retaliate 1936
The Italian air force seeks revenge for the decapitation of a captured pilot

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