Shooting Collection (page 9)

Shustoke Industrial School Rifle Team
The 1912 Miniature Rifle Shooting team from the Shustoke Industrial School for boys at Coleshill near Birmingham. Date: 1912

Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei island, China
Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei (Weihai) island, China, when it was a British colony. Date: circa 1910

Emperor of India enjoying sport in the jungle 1912
Front cover photograph of The Sphere, showing King George V seated on his hunting elephant during his holiday in the Napel teri. Date: 1912

King Emperor among the Nepal tigers and bears 1911
King George V, in Nepal on a great shooting expedition, loading up for the next himalayan bear, metal rod in front gave the King a shooting rest. Date: December 1911

King Emperors great shoot in Nepal 1911
King George V, in Nepal on a great shooting expedition with the Maharajah of Nepal (left), lying at the feet of his Majestys elephant is a tiger that the King has just killed. December 1911

Three men at a shooting range, with rifles, and telescopes on tripods. Date: circa 1930s

The Three Musketeers - Canadian sharpshooters, WW1
" The Three Musketeers" of Princess Patricias Own (Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry) firing from a mound with a fine view of the German first line trenches

Copperband butterfly fish Jaculator or shooting fish, Chelmon rostratus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Shooting Party, Cromer, Norfolk
Shooting Party, Cromer, Norwich, near Sherringham, Norfolk, England. Showing 1920s Austin Vintage Car, Shotguns & Shooting Stick Date: 1940s

King Alfonso XIII shooting in a skirt
King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941), King of Spain captured at a shooting party wearing what appears to be a skirt but is in fact a shooting apron. Date: 1914

Prince of Wales with his gun
Prince of Wales later King George V (1865 1936), with his gun, one of his favourite sports was hunting animals. 1903

Plate decorated with a warrior, 10th c. Glazed Terracotta. Persian art. Ceramics. IRAN. Tehran. Irans National Museum. Foroughi collection

Illustration that recreates the hunting of large mammals (mammoths, woolly rhinos and elephants) using traps during the Upper Paleolithic. Painting

Sarcophagus with hunting scene, 3rd c AD. Roman art. Late Empire. Relief on marble. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia. Proc: SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA

MANET, Edouard. Pertuiset, the lion hunter
MANET, ɤ ouard (1832-1883). Pertuiset, the lion hunter. 1881. Impressionism. Oil on canvas. BRAZIL. Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo Museum of Art

Circumstances Alter Cases, by Bairnsfather
Circumstances Alter Cases Showing the value of locality in warfare A cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather illustrating the difference the location and context can make to an action

A Visit to the Alpini - 19? by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1
The war was over some time ago, but this man hasn t heard about it yet, and nobody can get up to tell him. His sniping is therefore very annoying to that Austrian village in the valley

Hunter with shot wild goose (Bean goose) (Anser fabalis (Latham.)). early spring in semi-tundra near river Taz, North Tumen region, North Siberia, Russia

Illustrated War News front cover, shooting from plane
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring an illustration of a British plane with the pilot shooting a revolver mid-flight

Sphere cover - British plane caught by German gun fire
A British aeroplane, caught making a daring raid over enemy lines and flying very low to drop bombs on German entrenched troops, is fired on by a machine gun as well as several rifles

Watch me make a fire-bucket of is elmet
Two British soldiers have a couple minutes to practise shooting

Woman with a shotgun
Art Nouveau style depicting a woman out shooting with a man and his dog. Artist: Franz Laskoff Date: circa 1905

Paris, France - Barrieres, Games Outside City Limits. Date: 1855

WW1 messenger dogs - training them under rifle fire
Messenger dogs of the British Army undergoing training under rifle fire, to mimic conditions under which they would have to carry messages on the Western Front. Date: 1914-18

Early experiment in aerial gunnery by Heath Robinson
Another Mystery Revealed - An Early Experiment in Aerial Gunnery - now illustrated for the first time. A rather Heath Robinson attempt at a flying gun for aerial dogfights

Edward VII in Highland clothing
Prince of Wales, future King Edward VII of Britain, (1841 - 1910), wearing Highland clothing. Date: 1858

Zeppelin in flames as seen through telescope from Southfields, September 3rd 1916. Signed Walter Hunt.This relates to the Zeppelin raid on the night 2nd/3rd September 1916

Burberry for summer sport, 1914
Advertisement for Burberrys of London, placed in The Sketch magazines 5 August 1914 issue, showing four outfits suitable for the pursuits of the season from a yachting gown for Cowes to a shooting

British troops respond to an attack in Burma, 1890. Date: 1890

Mrs Baliol Scott teaching men how to shoot, WW1
Mrs Baliol Scott, the famous woman rifle shot, teaching boys how to shoot at the Byfleet Ladies Rifle Range of which she was a prominent member

Advertisements for John Sinclairs tobacco by H. L. Oakley
Four complementary advertisements for John Sinclairs Barneys and Punchbowle pipe tobacco, designed by H. L. Oakley and featuring men at work and leisure enjoying a quality smoke. Date: 1920s

Shooting party at Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Date: circa 1890s

Mans best friend... by H. L. Oakley
A series of silhouettes by H. L. Oakley depicting various hunting scenes. Date: 1943

Sinking of German ship, Konigin Luise, by G. H. Davis
The sinking of the German mine layer, Konigin Luise, off Harwich in the early stages of the First World War. Showing the position of the Lance when firing the three fatal shots. Date: August 1914

Hunting giraffe
The Fall of the Giraffe. A giraffe is shot at close range by a hunter who has dismounted from his horse. Date: 1884

Andrews Liver Salt advertisement by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for the health tonic, Andrews Liver Salts, featuring a silhouette by H. L. Oakley depicting two men out shooting with a gun dog. Date: 1926

Silhouette of man and dog out hunting
Silhouette of a man and his dog out hunting partridge with a rifle. Date: 20th century

Woman in elegant sports coat and skirt
A woman in an elegant sports coat and skirt, sitting on a shooting stick. The outfit is in heather mauve, flecked with green or with mauve suede facings

Advertisement for Burberry weatherproof clothes, showing a young woman leaning against a country wall in a jacket and long skirt described as a shooting gown

Advert for Scotts gentlemens hats 1912
Gentlemens hats for country wear in two different styles. 1912

Lady Idina Gordon going big-game shooting
Lady Idina Gordon (nee Sackville), who married her second husband, Captain Charles Gordon, in 1919, pictured in The Tatler with news that she was about to travel to British East Africa (Kenya)

Tatler front cover - Lord & Lady Curzon in India
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 - 1925), British Conservative statesman, Viceroy and Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary, pictured with his first wife

Business card design, woman shooting birds
Business card design, depicting a woman shooting birds. Date: 20th century

Arab sportsmen in the desert, shooting at ostriches from their vehicle. Date: 1928

English public schoolboys at Bisley
Boys from Harrow School and University College firing at 500 yards as volunteer marksmen at Bisley. The National Rifle Association was established in 1860 to encourage

To Hell With Surrender! How Second Lieutenant J. C. Buchan
The official narrative for this drawing reads: When he saw the enemy had practically surrounded his command, he collected his platoon and prepared to fight his way back to the supporting line

8th Duke of Devonshire and Sir John Eldon Gorst
The Story of the Duke and the Bunnygorst. Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) as a rather lazy layabout

Three schoolboys on desert island shoot at sparrows using makeshift bows and arrows made out of laces, bones and saplings. Date: 1898

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