Duel Gallery

Manneken Pis Postcard Album - A Duel

A duel - three street urchins help their friend to mimic the statue! Manneken Pis (Dutch for little pee man'), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a very famous Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. This fold-out postcard album contains humourous sketches relating to the statue and individuals reactions on viewing it!

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle 71-0291

McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle 71-0291 (msn 0012/B002), at the 1980 SBAC Farnborough Airshow on 6 September 1980. Built as the second TF-15A, first flown on 18 October 1973 and re-designated F-15B-4-MC. Converted in 1979 to the Hughes/McDD private venture F-15E Strike Eagle prototype; a program that was initially known as the F-15DRF (Duel Role Fighter). In May 1991 the aircraft was inscribed ???F-15RTD Peek Eagle, as a private McDD venture; the aircraft was fitted and tested with a centreline pod with reconnaissance equipment and a data link. To the Alsalam Aircraft Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 6 November 2002 and eventually restored and painted into RSAF markings for the RSAF museum at Riyadh, as 1315 Date: 1980

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

Knights in combat, 14th century

Knights in combat, 14th century. King Henry V in battle on horseback in jupon or cote-d'armes with arms of England and France, bascinet with panache feathers 1, and duel between English and French knights in jupon, plate and chainmail armour, helmet with crest, and buckler 2. From the Roman du Roy Meliadus, British Museum manuscript Add. 12228. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Thomas Anthony Day and J.H. Dines Illustrations of Mediaeval Costume in England collected from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Bosworth, London, 1853. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans