Shoots Collection

WW1 / 1918 / AIR WAR / SPAD
French spad shoots down a German plane

Holmes / Hound / Baskerville
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Holmes shoots the sinister hound: " Holmes emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creatures flank"

Shah of Persia shooting pigeons
The Shah of Persia - Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, KG (1853-1907) shooting pigeons during a visit to Contrexeville (famous for bottled water) in North east France. Date: circa 1902

Diana the Huntress - with Attendants and Borzois Date: circa 1900

Dick Turpin shoots fellow highwayman, Tom King Date: 1839

Near naked man wades in a pond to gather water lilies - Bali
Near naked man in a cooly hat wades in a pond to gather water lilies. Bali, Indonesia Date: 1989

The Prince of Wales Shooting Swans, Sweden
The Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, shooting wild swans at Ekolsund, Sweden. Part of a royal visit to Scandinavia, 1885. Date: 1885

Cycladic relief. Pithos. Depiction of Potnia Theron, the Mistress of the Animals. Goddess of nature, crowned with flowers and shotts, flanked by two rampant lionesses and two submissive women

The Breed of the Treshams by John Rutherford touring to the Theatre Royal, Manchester on 8th May 1905. Scene showing the fight in Act II, in which Reresby keeps mutineers in the Royalist army at bay

Spanish Civil War Poster - Peasant
Poster from the Spanish General Workers Union (UGT) appealing to country workers: Peasants! The revolution is as necessary as the shoots on the vine. Date: circa 1938

America. An artist in the Far West. Been looking for you
Two cowboys in fringed jackets having an argument, one then shoots the other dead. This subject, shoot first, ask questions later, appeared many times in British magazines in the nineteenth century

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CRUSOE & DEAD PARRROT
Robinson Crusoe shoots a parrot which he and Friday eat for supper. Date: First published: 1719

Chinese paper making, QIng Dynasty
Chinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

William Tell, Commencement of the Liberty of Switzerland -- the famous scene in which Tell shoots an apple on his sons head. circa 1307

The Ksar, Medenine, Tunisia
circa 1910s

ICE HOCKEY IN AMERICA
An attacking player shoots at goal, during an American ice hockey game. Date: 1898

WW1 - French soldiers firing (in vain) toward a German Taube
WW1 - French soldiers firing (in vain) toward a German Rumbler Taube Aircraft flying over their position on a reconnaisance mission. Date: 1914

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

Mangrove tree sapling grows on basalt rock June sea shore near Le Prince Maurice Hotel Poste de Flacq East of Mauritius

Eley Kynoch gun cartridges by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for Eley-Kynoch gun cartridges featuring silhouettes by the artist H. L. Oakley. Date: 1936

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

Ned Kelly
The Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly. 1878

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

Odysseus Attacks Suitors
Odysseus shoots the first arrow at the suitors who have tried in vain to woo Penelope while he has been away

Startling Stories - Tarnished Utopia by Malcolm Jameson. A man in a space suit and a woman are attacked by possessed trees

Japanese Geisha girl arranging flowers Date: circa 1908

Romaunt, Arrows of Love
The Three Arrows of Love: the god of Love shoots arrows into the Lover Date: First published:late 14thC ?

Schrepfer and Spirits
Johann Georg Schrepfer (also known as the baron de Steinbach) (1730-1774) conjures spirits at Dresden, but shoots himself when things start to go wrong Date: 1773

Shooting ducks, c. 1810
A man shooting ducks with a gun dog, c.1810 Date: C.1810

Tatler photo of Hon Eddy Stonor & Mrs George Cornwallis-West
Tatler photograph of 27th October 1909, entitled Lord Cravens Shooting Party at Coombe Abbey, showing some of the members of the party

Man shooting at two birds in a tree, c. 1800
Man aiming a rifle at two birds in a tree, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Front cover of the Tatler - Royal shoot at Eaton Hall
Black and white front cover of the Tatler of 22nd December 1909 showing Colonel Horford, the Duchess of Westminster (centre) and Princess Pless resting in between the drives

Nobel Industries gun cartridges by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for gun cartridges by Nobel Industries Ltd featuring sporting silhouettes by the artist H. L. Oakley. Date: 1920s

Sir John Eldon Gorst sends 8th Duke of Devonshire into well
The Story of the Duke and the Bunnygorst (cont.). 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

Two Algerian soldiers firing from behind the cover of a cart. Date: circa 1915

Roman Husband & Wife
" The wife & husband equally conspire, To work by night & rake the winter fire; He sharpens torches in the glim ring room

Bamboo shoots. Date between 1830 and 1850

Assassination attempt on Queen Victoria
Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by the eighteen year old Edward Oxford, on Constitution Hill, London

Outlaw in the American West
An outlaw in the American West shoots from up on a hill at travellers in the valley below. Date: 1888

French highwayman
A French highwayman surprises a passing coach and horse, shooting the driver a point blank range. Date: c. 1894

American train robbery on Louisville. New Albany and Chicago railroad; the criminal shoots the baggage master. Date: 5th August 1886

Ned Kelly kills Police Officer Lonigan
While the Kelly gang were in hiding, the police launched a mission to find them, setting up camp at Stringbark, near where they suspected the gang were staying

Assassination attempt on Alfonso XII of Spain
Assassination attempt by a pastry chef, Otero, on Alfonso XII of Spain, while the King was honeymooning in Madrid. 1879

Assassination of President Garfield by Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau shoots and kills President, James A. Garfield, on 2nd July 1881. 1881

Assassination attempt on Francesco Crispi
An unsuccessful assassination attempt on the life of the Italian statesman, Francesco Crispi, by the anarchist Lega. 1894

Attack on Pierre Baudin
Attack on M. Pierre Baudin by Countess Olszewski, who was really after ThÚ»░hile Delcasse. Date: 1901

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