Drown Collection

The Last Man, Hans Bohrdt - Propaganda - German navy officer
In 1915 Hans Bohrdt created his most famous illustration which is called " The Last Man". The image shows a German navy officer holding up a German flag as his ship sinks because he would

WRECK OF WHITE SHIP
Henry Is children drown when the White Ship founders on a rock and capsizes Date: 1120

Victoria / Camperdown 4
Error and obstinacy on Admiral Tryons part lead to his flagship Victoria and the Camperdown colliding : Victoria sinks, Camperdown is damaged, 300+ drown

Germans Drown John Bull
Thanks to their U-boats, the German navy will drown John Bull

A Transparent Dodge, cartoon
A Transparent Dodge. Germany: Help! Help! I drown! Throw me the life-belt! Mr Lloyd George and M. Briand: Try standing up on your feet

Cartoon, Disenchantment, WW1
Cartoon, Disenchantment. The old ones are no fun, they die too quickly, muses a German U-boat commander. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The Rescuer, WW1
Cartoon, The Rescuer. Germany comes to the help of Death, represented by a skeleton drowning in a sea of blood. Date: 1916

Comic postcard, Children sitting on wall at the seaside - underwater record Date: 20th century

Fashionable couple disturbed by stupid, stone-cold
Fashionable couple disturbed at home in the morning by stupid, stone-cold idle relatives. Miseries of the country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Amida deity, Japan
Amida (also known as Amitabha or Amitayus), is a celestial buddha according to the scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Amida is the principal buddha in Pure Land Buddhism, (Mahayana Buddhism)

Silhouette, A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw
A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw -- silhouette showing a man in water, reaching up to a tree branch

The Torrent & the River
THE TORRENT AND THE RIVER A man survives the rushing and roaring of a torrent, but an apparently calm river he takes for granted, and he and his horse drown in the deep water

Pharaoh and his host drowned in the Red Sea - Exodus 14. circa 1690

Swimming a Witch
The art of Swimming a witch. The lady floating is the witch, who by dint of her buoyancy has failed the test. At the bottom right-hand corner you can see the feet of the woman who passed the test but

Deucalion and Flood
Zeus, angered by the sinfulness of mankind, causes it to rain and rain, until all drown except Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha whose ark lands up on Mount Parnassus

Pigs are thrown into the sea and drown. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Shipwreck off a rocky coast, c. 1815
A ship is wrecked in a stormy sea off a rocky coast. People on shore try to rescue half-drowned survivors. A broken rowing boat has been washed up or dragged to shore

Travellers Drown / Mekong
A French General and Doctor and native crew drown in the Mekong River rapids, Vietnam Date: 1910

Suffragette, Mixed Bathing at Seaside. Never mind the sharks! Sign on the beach reads, Beware of the Suffragettes, Bathing Machines provided for Ladies and Suffragettes

Kyoto, Japan - Kimozuji Dera Temple Complex - Sacred stones - Memorial to the suicide (by drowning) of Saigo and Gessho. Date: circa 1905

Popular song Goodbye Dolly
A woman in despair over her drowning soldier husband who whilst rowing broke an oar and fell into the water. Realising his fate he bids fond farewell to his wife, Dolly

Group of Romanian Jews
A group of Romanian Jews, with a quotation from Prime Minister Carp. Below is an historical note about the persecution of the Jews in Romania in 1866

Scene from the legend of William Tell, Swiss folk hero
A scene from the legend of William Tell, Swiss folk hero. He springs onto the bank and pushes his enemy Gesslers boat back into the raging water, thereby causing its occupants to drown

Mr Churchill rung down by a Suffragettes bell
A photograph of Winston Churchill addressing a meeting of workmen at a factory. Ms Molony, an Irish Suffragist, arrived in a carriage and attempted to drown the speakers voice with a bell

Henry Is Children / Drown
Henry Is children, drown when the White Ship founders on a rock and capsizes

Disposal of Abdul-Hamid
CARTOON The young Turks dispose of the body of Abdul-Hamid

WRECK OF WHITE SHIP
Henry Is children drown when the " White Ship" founders on a rock and capsizes

Social / Savoy Derby 1914
After the races: Derby night at the Savoy Hotel, London - those who have won, celebrate with champagne; those who have lost, drown their grief in the same beverage

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