Precipice Collection

DIVINE COMEDY / DAMNED
Dante & Virgil contemplate some of the damned... Date: First published: 1307-21?

Llyn Cynwch, Precipice Walk, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, NW Wales
Llyn Cynwch, Precipice Walk, Dolgellau (formerly Dolgelly or Dolgelley), Gwynedd, NW Wales - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing

Railway Mania - illustration by Alfred Crowquill - a steam train running out of track as it heads to the edge of the precipice... Date: 1845

DANTE / VIRGIL / PURGATORY
Dante and Virgil emerge from infernal regions just before dawn and are greeted by the radiant constellation of Venus in the night sky. Date: First published: 1307-21?

DIVINA COMMEDIA / DANTE
Here the rocky precipice hurls forth redundant flames: angels are prevented from providing succour to the souls of the precipice. Date: First published: 1307-21?

Italian artillery retreat
Retreating in the face of an Austrian advance, Italian artillerymen pitch their gun over a mountain precipice into the valley below

German poster, What England Wants, WW1
German propaganda poster, What England Wants, depicting a blindfolded man approaching the edge of a cliff with a heavy sack on his back at the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Mount Precipice, Nazareth, Northern Israel
Mount Precipice (Mount of Precipitation, Mount of the Leap of the Lord and Mount Kedumim), Nazareth, Northern Israel. According to biblical legend

Italian soldiers climbing precipice, WW1
Italian soldiers transporting themselves and their artillery up a sheer mountain face by means of ropes during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Two travelers, one on horseback, on a precipice or natural bridge during a snowstorm. Date between 1890 and 1940

Precipice Walk, Dolgelly (i. e. Dolgellau), Wales
Precipice Walk, Dolgelly (i.e. Dolgellau), Wales. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Austrian artillery troops in the Alps, WW1
Austrian artillery troops in the Alps during the First World War, transporting a field gun down a snowy precipice. Date: 1915-1918

Georgia - Tbilisi - Gorge close to Botanic Gardens. Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

Broken viaduct on the Bhore Ghaut incline, India
A sketch of the broken viaduct on the Bhore Ghaut incline on the Great Indian Penisular Railway, drawn two days after its fall

Alpine Difficulties / W Heath Robinson
A gentleman finds himself and his car stuck, balanced on the peak of an alpine hill. Illustration by William Heath Robinson

The Zulu war. The Battle of Isandhlawana, January 22nd 1879
The landscape of Isadhlwana, a rocky point terminating in a huge precipice about 1, 000 feet high, with Zulu forces suurounding the British troops on every side

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