Shooting Collection (page 6)

PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola, called Il (1503-1540). Legend of Artemis and Actaeon. 1523. ITALY. Fontanellato. La Rocca. Detail. Greyhound. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco

FRANCE. Montignac. The Cave of Lascaux. Hall of the Bulls. Group of deers. Upper Paleolithic. Magdalenian. Cave

Saqqara. Mastaba of Mereruka
Mastaba of Mereruka. ca. 2323 BC. EGYPT. Saqqara. Capture of a hyena. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Relief on rock

Argentina. Cave of the Hands. Cave paintings
ARGENTINA. SANTA CRUZ. Perito Moreno. Cave of the Hands. Cave painting depicting hands, guanacos and geometric figures (11000-7500 BC). Neolithic art. Cave

Canadas part in the Somme advance, Matania, WW1
Canadas part in the Somme advance - a brilliant affair at Courcelette. The capture of the sugar refinery at Courcelette by the Canadians on 15 September 1916

Burma - World War II - Chindit Brown
Chindit Brown of the Kings Own Regiment (nicknamed Digger ) in action in Burma. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Royal Navy rifle training

c. 1880s India - game birds after a day of shooting
c.1880s India - game birds after a day of shooting

Gun with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cupids shooting arrows on a Valentine postcard
Cupids shooting arrows at red hearts on a Valentine postcard -- To my Valentine. Date: circa 1890s

The Ancient English Musket & Halbert Exercise, Plate 3. 1794

Advert for London Shoe Company 1898
A selection of victorian boots, real whale skin for shooting, ladys field boot made from tan or blacking calf, button or lace, smart toe brogues

Clay Pigeon Shoot
A well-to-do shooting party, aiming at clay pigeons in the snow. Date: early 1930s

Gillie boy with dogs on grouse shoot, Scotland
Gillie boy with pointers or setters on a grouse shoot on the Scottish moors. 19th century

Cynegetica: treatise on hunting and fishing by Oppianus. Greek school (11th c.). Hunting for Birds. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St)

Belgian plane shooting down a Taube over Yser, WW1
Belgian plane shooting down a German Taube over Yser, Belgium. Date: 1914

Selkup-hunter - Traditional hunting gear of a Selkup (north Siberias indigenous minority), knife, rifle, skies. Winter; Semi-tundra near river Taz, North Tumen region, Northern Siberia, Russia

Zeppelin machine gunners by Matania, WW1
Zeppelin machine gunners attempting to beat off a British aeroplane attack. The gunners are positioned on a 9 foot platform above the bow end of the airship

Cartoon, The Glorious Twelfth -- the Bird to be brought down this August being not a Grouse but a Mad Eagle. A comment on the warmongering Kaiser Wilhelm II

Royal Shooting party comprising Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Queen of Edward VII, Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938), Governor-General of South Africa; son of 1st Duke of Connaught

A W Gamage Ltd. - Sports Outfitters of Holborn, London Date: circa 1905

Milking Boy - Grindelwald, Switzerland - with his own milking stool, pre-attached by leather straps to his behind! Date: circa 1910s

Bribri People - Shooting fish, Costa Rica
The Bribri - an indigenous people of Costa Rica. They live in the Talamanca (canton) in Limon Province of Costa Rica. The Bribri men pictured are shooting fish using short bows. Date: circa 1910s

Buryat Archer competing at a Traditional Games in 1928. The Buryats or Buriyads - the largest indigenous (aboriginal) group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic

Portable bird-hide, for use when shooting birds. Illustration from Canarien Bogeln, Grhe Anweisung alle Arten Vogel zu fangen, einzustellen, abzurichten, zahm zu machen. Date: 1768

Austro-Hungarian firing squad, WW1
Austro-Hungarian justice being carried out in the form of a firing squad during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Ned Kelly
The Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly. 1878

The Australian bushranger, Frank Gardiner arrested at Apis Creek, Queensland. 1863

Boys at Bisley, Surrey
A group of boys at Bisley in Surrey, a rifle shooting venue for many years. The boys may be from the Bisley boys school, an orphanage run by The Shaftesbury Homes

Shooting Apple Off Head
A man shoots an apple off a boys head, in the style of William Tell

Indian Tiger Hunt 1860
British in India shooting a tiger from elephants : their native guide hopes their shooting is effective

Napoleon Shooting
The exiled Napoleon goes partridge-shooting on Saint Helena

Shooting buffalo from a train in Kansas
Shooting buffalo from a train, on the Kansas Pacific Railway

When the War is Over, Maggie (3) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front thinks of his love as he takes part in combat alongside his colleagues. (3 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

Victorian Scrap - soldiers pursuing a cyclist. late 19th century

Prince of Wales in Nepal Terai, shooting tigers 1876
Prince of Wales, (later Edward VII) with Colonel Sir Arthur Ellis, in close quarters with tigers. Date: 1876

Prince of Wales tiger shooting 1876
Prince of Wales, (later Edward VII) on a shooting expedition in the Terai, padding a tiger. Date: 1876

Prince of Wales in Nepal Terai, shooting bears 1876
Prince of Wales, (later Edward VII) on a shooting expedition in the Terai, crossing a nullah in the jungle. March 1876

Torquay, Devon - Wealthy European Aristocrats on holiday. Date: 1937

County of London Rifle Shooting Championship - The Competitors and Results. Date: circa 1930

Petrograd, Russia - February Revolution, 8th-15th March 1917
A very important (and very rare) real photograph postcard showing National militia firing on a Czarist police position (the police were running along the rooftops according to the eyewitness report)

Shooting a movie thriller in mid-air
A camera man in an aeroplane operates his camera to shoot two planes in combat for a movie. One pilot can be seen escaping by means of a parachute. Date: 1932

Advert for Kenneth Durward outdoor wear 1915
Kenneth Durward, sporting and speciality tailor. Variety of outdoor clothing for men. 1915

WW2 - Rocket Gun Battery in action
Photograph, 1941 (c): rocket gun battery in action. The trail of scores of rockets shooting towards the sky and bursting. Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)

Man in uniform shooting in Oman
Oman. Man in uniform shooting. Two men looking over. Date: 1976

Honour Was Satisfied by H M Bateman, or, The Seasons Retrospect. This illustration shows a man hunting, but is such a bad shot that he hits nothing

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough in caricature
John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough (18 September 1897 11 March 1972), styled Marquess of Blandford until 1934, British peer, pictured with his wife, The Hon

Frankfurt Shooting League
Poster for the Frankfurt Shooting League. Date: 1912

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