Muscular Collection

Male Type / Naked Beaute
A naked man in only a loin cloth. Fitness and beauty combined

Ahmed Madrali, Turkish wrestler known as the Terrible Turk, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in 1904 after losing a match for the world wrestling championship at Olympia against the Russian

Frank Bell Body Builder from Darlington
Frank Bell of Darlington UK. Frank was a finalist in the 1937 Mr.Britain at the age of 20. He was a Mr. North Britain finalist in 1940 and subsequently became the 2nd Superman of Great Britain

YMCA Poster, Lend Your Strength, WW1
YMCA Poster, design by Adrian Gil-Spear, Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle, Help the Y Help the Fighters Fight, United War Work Campaign, 11 to 18 November, First World War. circa 1918

Czech Republic - 8th All Sokol Rally in Prague
8th All Sokol Rally in Prague. A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic)

Ice Hockey by Rene Vincent
Illustration showing a muscular ice hockey player with his doting girlfriend

German Men at an open air spa, taking exercise, playing cards and lifting weights. Date: circa 1905

Frank Bell Body Builder from Darlington and friends
Frank Bell of Darlington UK. Frank was a finalist in the 1937 Mr.Britain at the age of 20. He was a Mr. North Britain finalist in 1940 and subsequently became the 2nd Superman of Great Britain

The Symetri Brothers, original posing act with Frank Bell and Jim Hunt of Darlington, UK. Date: circa 1930s

Nigel, A Zulu
A portrait oil painting of Nigel, a muscular Zulu man, wearing a black and white striped wrap which reveals a bare shoulder and half torso

Thunderstorm
An etching of some muscular horses, travelling a country road during a violent thunderstorm. The middle horse is rearing, causing some trouble for the man leading him. Date: circa 1921

Le Passeur DEau
This etching shows a muscular, hulking ferryman rowing his boat through some thrashing waves in the ocean, travelling towards the blazing sun in the distance. Date: circa 1921

Louise
A portrait sketch of Louise, a woman who is holding her chin up high, revealing quite a muscular neck. Date: circa 1919

St. George
This oil painting is a grand portrayal of Saint George, a national saint of England and H.M. The King. The well renowned story of George and the dragon

Red Lacquer Dream
A watercolour painting of a woman, sat casually atop a muscular lion, travelling along a pathway. The panel is heavily decorated with a huge variety of colourful flowers. Date: circa 1918

Cover design, Startling Stories, science fiction pulp magazine, September 1947 Date: 1947

Harry Wills, Boxer
Harry Wills (1889-1958) the heavyweight boxer, who held the title World Colored Heavyweight Champion three times. Although a heavyweight title match with white boxer Jack Dempsey was planned for

Idyll
A bronze relief, showing a muscular man, lovingly embracing a woman with one hand, both of them are holding out their child, with their other hands. Date: circa 1924

Bush Landscape
A landscape oil painting of the bush lands in Australia, showing a muscular white horse with a man inspecting the ground. Date: circa 1921

Comic postcard, Man chats with lifeguard on the beach Date: 20th century

Pacific Islands, Oceania: portrait of a young man
Vintage 19th century photograph - Oceania, Pacific Islands, probably Fiji, Tahiti or Western Samoa: portrait of a young man in a studio setting

Young, muscular man on the beach
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Tired and drunken man at a raucous dinner party with foxhunters. Miseries of Social Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Anatomy of human musculature. Lithograph by C. Schach from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1839

Statue of a Roman gladiator. late 19th century

Harold Whitey Packman, deep sea diver, Santa Catalina, USA
Harold Whitey Packman, deep sea diver, Santa Catalina Island, USA, Date: circa 1926

Explaining theory of circulation to King Charles I

Bramble Shark Date: 1865

Timocleia and the Thracian Commander by Tiepolo
Timocleia and the Thracian Commander by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770).- painting on canvas. Date: circa 1755

OLYMPICS / 1932 / DISCUS W
Discus won by Lillian Copeland (USA) Date: 1932

Ghent (Gand), Belgium - Monument to Jan Frans Willems (1793-1846) by sculptor Isidoor de Rudder (1899) - Flemish writer and father of the Flemish movement. Date: circa 1900s

British Heavyweight Champion Len Harvey (1906-1976) - became champion in 1933, won the British Empire Heavyweight Championship in 1934 - undefeated light heavyweight champion

Jakob Koch (1871 - 1918), German amateur wrestler. Date: 1905

The Muscular System of the Human Body - from the front and the rear. Date: circa 1790

Drawing on anatomy by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) The Musc
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Italian polymanth. Genius. Renaissance. Drawing on anatomy by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) The Muscles of the legs

Wrestlers, 1853, by Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). French painter. Wrestlers, 1853. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Tom Jenkins (1872 - 1957), American catch wrestler who held the American Heavyweight Championship three times around the turn of the 20th century

European Bison - large adult male bull lying down - part of a larger herd living wild in a mixed forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

European Bison - a huge adult male bull lying down - part of a larger herd living wild in a mixed forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

European Bison - a huge adult male bull - part of a larger herd living wild in a mixed forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

Old Chief of the French Congo
Elderly Chief of the Bacouli Tribe in the French Congo (the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic). Date: circa 1910s

Sharron Davies and Neil Adams
Sharron Davies (b 1962), Commonweath and Olympic swimming champion, with Neil Adams (b 1958), European, Olympic and World judo champion

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