Hero Collection (page 8)

Jose Manso y Sola (1785-1863). General and Captain General of the Royal Army of Fernando VII and Elizabeth II. Engraving by J. Serra Pausas. Colored

Roman mosaic. Child Heracles with snakes. Antioquia. Turkey
Heracles. Divine hero in Greek mythology. Roman mosaic. Child Heracles with snakes. Antakya. Turkey

Abdelkader El Djezairi (1808-1883). Colored engraving
Abdelkader El Djezairi (1808-1883). Algerian political and military. Engraving, 1887. Colored

Conquest of Mexico. Capture of Cuauhtemoc. Colored engraving
Conquest of Mexico. 16th century. Cuauhtemoc was captured by Garcia Holguin while fleeing in a canoe with her family after the defeat in the Battle of Tenochtitlan

Odysseus returns home. Roman Fresco
Odysseus disguised as a beggar returns home. Episode of the Odyssey. Roman Fresco. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy

Pergamon Altar. Telephos Frieze. Detail
Pergamon Altar. 164-156 BC. Telephos Frieze. Detail. Cults at the Sanctuary of Dionysus. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Mesopotamian stone cult vessel. Uruk
Stone cult vessel with anthropomorphic decoration, supported by two heroes wearing belts. 3300-3000 BC. Late Uruk Period. Mesopotamian-Sumerian art. Probably from Uruk. British Museum. London

Tapestry of the Astrolabes. 15th century. Flemish tapestry depicting, on the left, God the Creator. In the center, the Vault of Heaven like an astrolabe with Pole Star

Latin inscription on the pedestal of the statue of Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, defender of the city of Corfu of the Turkish invasion of 1716. Corfu. Ionian Islands. Greece

Greek art. Greece. Terracotta neck amphora. 7th century BC. Proto-Attic Period. It represents Herakles grabbing the hair of the centaur Nessus. Behind Herakles, a four-horse chariot and a driver

Greek urn. Greece
Urn (150-200) decorated with a relief depicting the deceased marriage with Aphrodite (center) writing their names on a shield held by Eros. On the right, Bellerophon with Pegasus. Dokimeion marble

Caricature, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker
Caricature, Henry Irving congratulates his theatre manager, Bram Stoker for recently rescuing a man from drowning in the River Thames near his Chelsea home. 1882

Tour De France Muller
Local hero Joseph Muller wins the Strasbourg section of the race, to his neighbours jubilation. Date: 1923

Friedrich I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor from 1155. He drowned in a river near Antioch while on a Crusade, but as depicted here there is a legend that he is sleeping with his knights in a cave

Colin Baker as Dr Who, with two young fans
The actor Colin Baker (b 1943) as Dr Who, with two young fans. Colin Baker was the sixth Dr Who in the long-running science fiction television series, and played the role from 1984 to 1986

F Rush newsagent, Paradise Street, Marylebone, London
F Rush newsagent, tobacconist and confectioner, Paradise Street (now Moxon Street), off Marylebone High Street, London, with staff and customers posing outside. circa 1920

Machaquito, Rafael Gonzalez Madrid, Spanish bullfighter
Machaquito (Rafael Gonzalez Madrid, 1880-1955), Spanish bullfighter from Cordoba. He retired in 1913. Date: circa 1910

WWI Poster, War Loan, Invest Five Shillings
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, War Loan, Invest Five Shillings and help your country to win. Date: 1916

Tatler cover - Captain Philip Fletcher Fullard, WW1
Air Commodore Philip Fletcher Fullard CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, AFC (27 May 1897 24 April 1984), English First World War flying ace

Lance-Sergeant Douglas Belcher V. C
Lance-Sergeant Douglas Belcher of the London Rifle Brigade, the first Territorial, other than an officer to receive the Victoria Cross in the First World War

How Todger Jones won the VC at Morval
How Todger Jones, 1st Battalion Cheshires, won the VC at Morval - 25th September 1916. By Stanley Llewellyn Wood (1866-1928). Date: 1916

Jemadar Mir Dast, WW1
Jemadar Mir Dast V.C. (1874 - 1945), soldier and Victoria Cross winner in the British Indian Army. During the First World War Dast was a Jemadar in the 55th Cokes Rifles (Frontier Force)

Ilya Muromets - Elijah of Murom on horseback
Ilya Muromets (Elijah of Murom) - a Kievan Rus epic hero. He is celebrated in numerous byliny (folk epic poems). Along with Dobrynya Nikitich

Commander Andrew H. Foote
Portrait of Commander Andrew H. Foote. The Hero of Fort Henry

Stewart Holland. The Last Gun of the Arctic
The Last Gun of the Arctic. Stewart Holland. Sept. 27th 1854. The portrait from a daguerrotype of the young hero, in possession of his father. Date: Sept. 27th 1854

Russian Ilya Muromets Sikorsky biplane and crew, WW1
A Russian Ilya Muromets Sikorsky heavy bomber biplane and crew on an airfield during the First World War. Introduced in 1913, the plane was named after a hero from Russian mythology. Date: 1914-1918

Captain Scott and his tent
Artists impression of Captain Scott writing in his diary in his tent during his expedition to the South Pole in which he and his four companions perished

Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Edgar Evans
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912), British Polar explorer, pictured with Petty Officer Edgar Evans, one of the four men who accompanied Scott on his ill-fated expedition to reach the South

Gustav Adolf II statue, Goteborg, Sweden
The statue of King Gustav Adolf II (1594-1632), founder of the Swedish Empire, in Gustav Adolf Square, Goteborg (Gothenburg), Vastergotland, Sweden

Lenin Statue, Omsk, Russia
Statue of the Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) in the city of Omsk, Siberia, Russia

Statue of Vladimir II Monomakh, Vladimir, Russia
View of the equestrian statue of the founder of the city of Vladimir, Vladimir II Monomakh (1053-1125), a Grand Prince of Kievan Rus

Fountain, monument and pillar, Kiev, Ukraine
View of a fountain in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) with a monument to the legendary founders of the city of Kiev, the three brothers Kyi (also Kiy, Kij or Kyj)

Statue of Emperor Trajan, Rome, Italy
Statue of the Roman Emperor Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, 53-117), outside the Forum in Rome, Italy

Hereward and Torfrida
Torfrida is shocked to to see the legendary fenland hero, Hereward

ILN 1952
PHYLLIS HOLMAN RICHARDS Page from The Illustrated London News featuring Phyllis Holman Richards who was awarded the Binney medal for bravery in the face of armed

Achilles and Aeneas
He overpowers Aeneas and is just about to dispatch him to the Underworld when Poseidon intervenes to protect the Trojan hero who will found the dynasty of Romulus & Remus

Publius Horatius Cocles defending the Tiber bridge
Publius Horatius Cocles, an army officer of the Roman Republic, together with two companions, Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius

For His King and the Girl He Loved by Fred Maxwell
Promotional postcard of a poster for For His King and the Girl He Loved by Fred Maxwell. A wedding between hero and heroine was a common melodrama ending

City Park, Santa Lucia Hill, Santiago, Chile, South America, with a statue of Caupolican, famous Mapuche leader, hero of the resistance to Spanish conquest. Date: circa 1925

Lord Kitchener with Allied flags, Unity is Strength. Date: circa 1915

Britains Royal Naval Air Service, aircraft and airmen -- Lieutenant Longmore RN, Flight Commander Samson RN, Lieutenants Grey RN, with a seaplane on the water behind them

Tatler cover - Jim Mollison
Front cover of The Tatler, featuring photographs of Jim Mollison. James Allan (Jim) Mollison (1905-1959), was a record-breaking Scottish aviator, and husband of Amy Johnson. Date: 1933

Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer and explorer
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (c1554-1618), English gentleman, writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. circa 1930

Red Jacket Monument, Buffalo, New York State, USA
Red Jacket Monument, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York State, USA. Known as Otetiani as a young man and Sagoyewatha (Keeper Awake) Sa-go-ye-wa-tha

Tabby kitten asleep on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten asleep on a bookshelf. 1950s

Tabby kitten on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten on a bookshelf. 1950s

The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully. First produced in England Lyric Theatre on the 11th September 1919. The setting is Hawaii

Odysseus. From Rome. Late 1st century AD. Bust. Marble
Odysseus. From Rome. Late 1st century AD. Marble. Close-fitting felt hat is characteristic of the hero. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark

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