Fight Collection (page 23)

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?

Military Tournament - Lifeguard vs. Dragoon - fighting sword to sword. Date: circa 1910s

Religious play, The Miracle, Olympia, West London
A scene showing two soldiers of the Inquisition during rehearsals for the religious drama The Miracle, performed in the huge arena of the Olympia exhibition centre, West London, at Christmas 1911

Marquis Wellesley at Nabob of Oudes Breakfast Table
Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley - Governor General of India (1760-1842) and his suite at Nabob of Oudes (Wazir Ali Khan)

Yankee Doodle on His Muscle. Or the way the Benicia Boy astonished the English Men. John C. Heenan (1835-1873) and Thomas Sayers (1826-1865) Date: ca. 1860

Snowball Ambush
The Ambsucade. Children waiting to ambush people with snowballs in the street

Roman legionaries fight
Roman legionaries based in Britain were drawn from many parts of the Roman Empire, which led to rivalries and occasional disputes, as illustrated here

Poster: Fight the Moth. Its the moth grub that does the damage. Advice on how to protect your clothes from moth damage. 20th century

Bullfight in France
A matador in elaborate costume, fights a bull in France. 1970s

Silhouette, To Fight Like Kilkenny Cats
To Fight Like Kilkenny Cats -- silhouette showing two cats circling each other aggressively, with pawprints visible all around them

Female Communardesde
Vivre la commune ! - the women of Paris fight alongside the men to defend the Commune against the government. Date: 1871

The Curate who saw red by H. M. Bateman
Humorous illustration by the comic master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing an irate curate kicking the local vicar and upsetting his cup of tea, much to the shock of polite onlookers

Rue Royale Fires
Fires are started in parts of Paris, often by petroleuses - women carrying cans of fuel. Firemen fight fires in the fashionable rue Royale, seen as symbolic of the old regime. Date: April- May 1871

Belgian Air Force 4
Michel Donnet and Leon Divoy, after the German defeat of Belgium, find and repair an old aeroplane and make a daring escape to England where they fight with great success. Date: 1916+

Japan - Geisha girls mock fighting
Japan - Geisha girls at play. They may be either mock fighting (the geisha on the left appears to have balled fists) or possibly playing scissors-paper-rock, which originated in Japan

Mexican Elite
Young women in a Guests of Honour box, possibly watching a bull fight. One of them is wearing a sombrero with a traditional zarape blanket draped in front of her. Date: 1930s

Boxing Manager & Trainer
Left to right : The Chinese friend, trainer and manager of KUI KONG YOUNG, in training to fight Puerto Rican boxing champion SIXTO ESCOBAR, Sydney, Australia. Date: 1930s

Kui Kong Young
Chinese Filipino boxer KUI KONG YOUNG, the small but toned and powerful young boxer, in training to fight Puerto Rican boxing champion SIXTO ESCOBAR. Date: 1940s

Bullfighting Procession
Procession to a bull fight, Spain. Date: 1930s

Cycle Racing
Cycle racing : Cyclists fight it out on the race track! Date: 1980s

Patriotic French postcard, WW1
A patriotic French postcard produced during the First World War. Showing an old soldier saluting the French flag as if ready to go and fight, looked up to by a little boy

A Sea Battle - New Guinea

Four boys playing at Bullfighting. The dead wooden bull is dragged away by a team of two piebald rocking horses Date: circa 1910s

Retaliation, or the cudgeller caught
A cudgeller is reprimanded by three angry folk, who surround him and wave their cudgels frantically. Date: 18th Century

Attack by ruffians
Frank and Sambo, attacked by Ruffians, in the hold of the Tender. Date: 1842

Fencing with daggers
A group of men engage in combat with one another, using daggers to fence with. Date: 1570

A domestic difference
A housewife prepares to throw a piece of dough at her husband, who is clearly in the dog house. Date: 1885

Fight between a landlady and soldier
Meg Dods and Captain McTurk ; the Captain protects himself from the onslaught of the furious landlady, Meg. Date: 1843

Men fighting for power
Two men fight for power, wrestling for the crown which has been taken from the Kings head. Date: 1553

Culmination of fight
An altercation between two men on a cliff top ends with the loser falling over the cliff edge to his death. Date: 19th Century

A political discussion
Turn-coats and cut-throats. Men fight each other on the stairway with batons, causing quite a scene. A sign above the stairs reads Freedom of Election. Date: 1796

Street Fight by George Ranstead
Drawing of two men engaged in a punch up in the street, much to the horror of a lady watching from a doorway (possibly the cause of the fight)

Romans fight the Sabines
Marginal drawings depicting combat between the Romans and the Sabines. 1543

Fight between Romulus and Mettius Curtius
Page of text with marginal drawing showing a horseman outside Rome, and a fight between the horseman and another figure. The horse has collapsed under its rider

Ned Kelly- Fight at Glenrowan
Attack on the Kelly gang at Glenrowan. The police finally managed to overcome the gang, killing three of its members and capturing Ned Kelly himself. 1880

Dispute in a rail carriage
A fight breaks out among business men in a train carriage, who are debating fiscal retaliation. 1903

The Great Advance by George Ranstead
Cartoon drawing by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps, showing two ruffians looking as if they are about to start fighting

Heavyweight boxing, 1948 London Olympics
E.J. Lambert of the USA (right) and F. Bothy of Belgium competing for heavyweight honours at the Empire Pool (hence the reflection in the lower half of the photograph)

Soldiers turned bandits during the Thirty Years War
Soldiers turned bandits draw their swords, during the Thirty Years War 17th Century

Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song by Billy Gould
Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song with words and music by Billy Gould. Sheet music cover, with a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson at the centre, a soldier on the left and a sailor on the right

German soldiers leaving Hamburg to fight the Hereros
German soldiers on board ship at Hamburg, leaving to fight the Hereros in German South West Africa (now Namibia). A rebellion by the Hereros against the German colonists took place between 1904

Basuto Gun War, 1880 - village attacked
Basutos repulsed when attacking a village during the Basuto Gun War, 1880. Date: 1880

Village squire ejected from cottage
The squire of a town is flung out of a cottage by angry villagers, one man flexing his muscles ready to continue the fight if necessary. Date: 1870

Female boxer
" The modern girl taught to prefer a bout with the gloves, to a scratch with her finger nails". 1. Her first lesson. 2. Fair professionals. 3. Training under instructions of a champion. 4

Poster, Fight for King and Empire, Our Brave Soldiers Need Your Help. circa 1915

Camels Fighting C1845
Two camels fight while two men watch in excitement: they have probably taken a bet on the outcome. Date: circa 1845

JEANNE D ARCs VISION
JEANNE D ARC is called to fight the English by an angelic vision Date: 1412 - 1431

Punch / Ruskin / Whistler
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER American painter and etcher Punch comment on his winning his court fight with Ruskin Date: 1834 - 1903

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