Shot Collection

Grape-Shot by Lou Mayer
A red-haired girl sits on top of a champagne cork as it zooms off into the air

1930S Snooker Game
A snooker player prepares to play a shot as his partner looks on. Their smart attire reflects the gentlemanly traditions of the game

HERBERTE, Edward Benjamin (1857-1893). Hunt scenes. The Kill. Oil on canvas

Admiral Nelson and Captain Hardy during Trafalgar
During the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, it was shortly before Nelson was mortally wounded that a shot struck the fore brace bits on the quarter deck and passed between Nelson and Hardy

Zazel / Human Cannonball
Zazel at the Royal Aquarium, London. " A beautiful Lady shot from a monstrous cannon." This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a human cannonball act

Bear Waiter
Lord Suffield, having shot this bear in Russia, subjects it to the further indignity of being stuffed by Mr Ward and made to serve as a dumb waiter

Lady golfer looking down the fairway for her drive, which appears to have travelled a decent distance. Date: circa 1920s

The Last Shot by Matania
A group of British seamen gunners straining to fire a final shot at a German ship as their own ship sinks beneath them

German Fokker D VII fighter plane, WW1
A German Fokker D VII fighter plane on an airfield towards the end of the First World War. It had a 180 hp Mercedes engine, and was a single-seat fighter plane

Horatio, Lord Nelson
Circular portrait of legendary British naval commander Horatio

Physical education, netball
Four girls playing netball, one tall girl takes a shot, the others await the rebound. Did she score?...we ll never know

American Indians. Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux
Portrait of Sitting Bull with elaborate feathered head dress reaching to the ground. Sitting Bull lead the resistance against the Americans which culminated in the defeat of General Custer

Assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie
The assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (1848-1909), an official of the British Indian government, at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London

R. M. S. Queen Mary leaving Clydebank, March 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary leaving John Browns shipyard, Clydebank, for Greenock on 24th March 1936

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Pinguinus impennis, great auk
1 of 6 shots of Dr Leachs 139 great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

American Indians. Sitting Bull addressing a meeting of brave
Sitting was an inspirational Sioux Chief, who together with Crazy Horse, defeated Custer and tried to prevent the American Indians being forced into reservations

Huckelberry Finn / Rabbit
Huckleberry holding up a rabbit he has just shot

William Walker
WILLIAM WALKER American adventurer President of Nicaragua finally shot after a remarkable career

Genghis Khan
GENGHIS KHAN (variously spelt) (orig. Temujin) Mongol Conqueror He is fatally shot during a campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Hsi Hsia

Messerschmitt Bf110, U8+HL of 2 / ZG 76
Messerschmitt Bf110, U8+HL of 2./ZG 76, shot down at Cobham Farm, Lenham, Kent, on 20 September 1940

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

Tatler cover photoshoot focusing on sunglasses. A variant shot from this particular photoshoot was used for the cover of The Tatler issue for 4 November 1959. 1959

Prince Waldemar of Prussia visiting Istanbul

The Fall of the German airship L-21 by Fortunino Matania, WW1
The destruction of the German Zeppelin L-21 over Cuffley, Hertfordshire after being shot down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson on the night of 2nd/3rd September 1916

French balloon shot down by German aircraft, WW1
A French balloon shot down by a German aircraft during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Two dead birds hanging upside down -- A Brace of Birds
Two dead birds hanging upside down, entitled A Brace of Birds

Cartoon, Jeremiah O Donovan Rossa, Irish Fenian
Cartoon, Jeremiah O Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), Irish Fenian leader - The terrible monster who was frightened by a woman

Golfer James Braid at the PGA on Romford Links
Black and white photo of golfer James Braid playing the seventeenth green at the Professional Golfers Association tournament on the Romford Links. Braid went on to win the match. 1902

Tea cup and saucer
Glazed porcelain tea cup, from a childs part tea-service, decorated with a painted band of flowers on an orange ground. Retailed in Australia c.1925-1935. Acquired from the original owner

The Old Shot Tower, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Date: circa 1910s

Raoul Rigault
RAOUL RIGAULT French radical, prominent in the Paris Commune until he was shot by soldiers in the street, crying Vive la Commune ! Date: 1846 - 1871

ANGRY GOLFER 1897
Having made an awful mess of his shot, a golfer vents his anger, much to the amusement of his caddy. Date: 1897

Film - Strike up the Band - Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Film - Strike up the Band - starring Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and Judy Garland (1922-1969)

Unwavering Divotion by Heath Robinson - golf cartoon
The Caddie (elevated with the turf): Never mind, Sir, you ve moved the ball. Date: 1914

British Sopwith triplane crash, Passchendaele, WW1
A British Sopwith triplane brought down in flames at Passchendaele, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 23 August 1917

Festival of Britain - View from River with Skylon
Festival of Britain - View of the South Bank site seen from over the River Thames, with Skylon, Shot Tower and Royal Festival Hall all visible

Advert for Festival of Britain constructional engineers
Advertisement for constructional engineers, Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott Ltd and Carter-Horseley (Engineers) Ltd

Crashed Me-110 fighter-bomber; Second World War, 1940
Photograph showing a German Messerschmitt Me-110 fighter-bomber, which crash-landed near Hastings after being shot up by a British fighter, during the summer of 1940

Neil Harvey batting in the Fourth Test Match, Headingley, 19
Photograph of (Robert) Neil Harvey, the Australian batsman, playing a shot in the Fourth Test Match between England and Australia, Headingley Cricket Ground, 1948

Arsenal vs. Stoke, Highbury, 1928
Photograph showing Dixon, the Stoke goalkeeper, attempting to save a shot from one of the Arsenal forwards, during the F.A. Cup Sixth Round match held at Highbury Stadium, 1928

The Czar of Russia as a shot
Photograph of Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) and the Tsarina Alexandra, shooting game. The photograph was taken by the official photographer to the Russian court

Colonel Festing rescuing Lieut. Eardley-Wilmots body
Colonel Francis Worgan Festing (1833-1886), rescuing the body of Lieut. Eardley-Wilmot during the Ashanti War (1873-74) from a sketch by the officer of the expedition

Wild Bill Hickok / Postcd
WILD BILL HICKOK alias JAMES BUTLER American frontiersman, stage driver, scout, and US marshal; famous as a crack shot

Death of Richard I
Richard I, dying of his wounds during a minor engagement in France, pardons Bertrand, the archer who shot him

Miss Macbeth playing a shot out of a bunker at the Ashdown Forest Club Ladies Meeting. Date: 1909

A British heavy howitzer in action on the Western Front against an opposing German position

Indian shot, achira or meeru, Canna indica (Canna edulis)

CAIRNS TERRIER / 1963
CHAMPION TOPTWIG TOKEN Owned by Marsh. Date: 1963

Fine Hand Hackling and Sorting Yarn in a Spinning Mill - an interior shot showing a man hackling flax by hand at a bench by a window. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Spreading (Back of Machine) - an interior shot of machines for spreading flax in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Marechal Michel Ney
MICHEL, PRINCE NEY marechal de France, prominent at Jena, during the retreat from Moscow and at Waterloo, but shamefully shot for his participation in the 100 Days. Date: 1769 - 1815

Newfoundland, Canada - Hunting Caribou. Date: 1902

A Visit to the Irish Pig! With reflections Physical & Moral
George III, accompanied by the Lord Chamberlain Salisbury, inspects a gigantic pig. Salisbury announces That Pig is the Tallest Fittest Properest Pig to stand before the K[ing]

Figure Modelling, Belleek Potteries - an interior shot showing a row of men modelling china. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek). Date: circa early 1900s

Friars Shot Pool Fishing
Scottish salmon fishermen fishing in the Friars Shot Pool of the River Ness. In the background is the town of Inverness with its castle, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Bandit / Shot / France / 1891
Ex-con Boissin, resists arrest & is shot by the gendarmes

English gentleman in a duel, Regency era. A gent in bicorne, riding coat and boots, fires his pistol watched by two seconds

Soldier with an abscess from a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Sergeant M'Gillivray of the 68th (Durham) Regiment was shot in the shoulder in the Siege of Nijmegen, 1794

Wilkinson Rubber Linatex - Shot Blast Curtains - Wilkinson Rubber Linatex Ltd. Date: 1952

Madrid School. Auto-da-fe, 1656. Toledo, Spain. Detail
Madrid School. Auto-da-fe

First Carlist War (1833-1840). Skirmish at Hernani
Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840)

Austro-Hungarian campaign to occupy the Bosnian Waliate
Austro-Hungarian campaign to occupy the former Ottoman territories of the Bosnian Waliate. Dalmatian-Herzegovinian insurrection

A busy early morning scene by the quayside at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, showing freshly caught fish being shot into boxes for despatch to London and elsewhere. Date: early 1950s

Examples of 18th century bandages, tongs and sutures
Examples of 18th century bandages 1, bec-de-corbin tongs 2, bec-de-canne tongs 4, bullet-remover tongs 4, and various sutures 5-11

Prehistory. Paleolithic. Hunters manufacturing weapons and cutting skins. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Death of Michael Godfrey, first Deputy Governor of the recently founded Bank of England, on 17 July 1695, during the Siege of Namur (2 July to 4 September 1695, part of the Nine Years War)

Field Gun outside the TJaegershof Restaurant
The restaurant has a small but interesting museum which is concerned with the activities nearby, including the St Sixtus Abbey

The death of Horatio Nelson - HMS Victory at Trafalgar
The death Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (1758-1805) belowdecks on The Victory, having been shot during the Battle of Trafalgar. 1805

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Vought F-8 Crusader. An early F-8 - F8U, at the Naval Air Engineering Laboratory, on Mustin Field, part of the Philadelphia Naval Yard

Tibia of Achondroplastic Dwarf
Bones of Achondroplastic Dwarf. From the tomb of King Mersekha around the fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

Sheriff Pat Garrett, American lawman
Patrick Floyd (Pat) Garrett (1850-1908), American lawman, sheriff, bartender and customs agent who, in around 1881, fatally shot Billy the Kid. Date: late 19th century

SPAIN. Kortezubi. Horse (13000 BF). Upper Paleolithic. Magdalenian. Cave

Republic F-105D-25-RE Thunderchief 61-0188 (MSN D383), mounted on a pylon at Luke AFB, AZ, marked as 61-0217, shot down in Vietnam. Date: circa 2000

Shoot for the book In Search of Charm
Client: Peter Hatch Partnership - Girl sitting travelling - Shoot for the book In Search of Charm by Mary Young - 1962. A book providing instruction to young girls on how to behave/etiquette

Wedding Dress shoot - late 1950s. Date: circa 1958

Knitting Pattern shoot Date: circa 1959

White Net Evening dress by Elizabeth Henry
White Net Evening dress possibly by Elizabeth Henry - shoot: March 27, 1951 Date: 1951

Lambeth Shot Tower, London Date: early 1900s

Lambeth Shot Tower, London, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Impression in the ground of a Commander falling from a Zeppelin shot down at Billericay during the First World War

Observation balloon shot down at Boyelles, 3rd February 1918

Girl playing on the beach, early 1900s

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