Sword Collection (page 46)

Theatrical Ranter
The Theatrical Ranter: a Georgian thespian acts his stockings off wearing armour, sword & plumed helmet. The sort of acting style ridiculed in Blackadder III

Dolly Ties Sash
Dolly Varden stoops to tie her fathers sash, watched by her mother Martha on the right and Mrs Miggs who holds out his sword

French Armour 15Th
A 15th century French soldier with full armour and various helmets. He also holds an axe and a sword

Crossbows and Shields
One soldier gets ready to fire his crossbow at the enemy while his two companions duck behind their shield

Hereward is Trapped
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward was caught in a trap. He did not flinch. Dropping his reigns and driving in the spurs once more, met them in full shock

Henry VIII with Shield
KING HENRY VIII A rather crude wood-cut engraving but one which shows him wearing armour, a long fur-lined cloak and holding a shield & sword

Camillus and Brennus
Brennus, captor of Rome, barg- aining for ransom, throws his sword in the scales saying Vae victis (Woe to the defeated). But Camillus is able to save Rome

Urbain Fardeau gallops into the enemy lines, holds his sword against the enemy commanders neck, and orders him to tell his men to lay down their arms

Montegabello Surrender
After defeating the Austrians at Montegabello, Jean Aulay de Launay accepts the sword of the Austrian commander

Racial / Arabs / Conflict
Arabs retreating from a conflict

Ireland / Russells Arrest
The apprehending of Thomas Russell, the leader of the rebels

Religion / Japan
Ama Terasu, Sun Goddess and Imperial Ancestress

Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffes Gothic romance The Mysteries of Udolpho

Theseus Lifts Stone / Ford
Theseus, watched by his mother, Aethra, lifts the boulder under which his father, Aegeus, had hidden a beautiful sword years before

Prester John / Vecellis
PRESTER JOHN Legendary Christian king and priest of the middle ages pictured here with his page

Magna Carta / Normand
King John, pressured by the barons and threatened with insurrection, reluctantly signs the great charter on the Thames island of Runnymede

Churchill / Admiralty / 1914
WINSTON CHURCHILL British statesman and author as First Lord of the Admiralty in a pose reminiscent of Horatio, Lord Nelson Date: 1874 - 1965

Francis Drake Knighted
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE English admiral knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Deptford on 4 April 1581, on board his ship, Golden Hind after his round the world voyage

Cuchulain Slain by Luga
Cuchulain (Cu Chulainn) slain by Lugas poisoned sword

Art / Greece / Vase 2
A mythological scene (details not known)

Chang T ien-Shi
CHANG T IEN-SHI, Master of the Heavens, depicted riding a tiger, holding the drink of eternal life and slaying the Five Venomous Beasts with his magic sword

Alice / Tweedles Armoured
Alice ties armour on to Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Pan / Woodward / Pirate Ship
A fight breaks out on board the pirate ship

Gladiators / Sword & Net
A swordsman versus a net- thrower on open ground

Strutt / Man / Green Shield
A man in armour brandishes a sword and holds a green shield with a creatures face inscribed on it

C Captain 1867
A British officer leading marching troops, wearing a bearskin and carrying a sword

Bertrand Du Guesclin
BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN Constable of France

G Washington / Chappel
GEORGE WASHINGTON First president of the United States sitting at his desk

Pepys / Noble / Wife / Dress
SAMUEL PEPYS required by his wife to admire her French gown called a sac

French travelling dentist in a town square
A French travelling dentist in a town square, standing at the back of a colourful yellow wagon with a female patient at his side

Don Quixote dreaming of knightly exploits -- to dream the impossible dream!

Gaius Marcius taking Corioli
Gaius Marcius, the legendary Roman hero, taking the Volscian city of Corioli, resulting in his additional name, Coriolanus, and his promotion to general

George Washington, American soldier and statesman

Soldiers doing sword exercises

King Edward the Confessor
EDWARD THE CONFESSOR King of England (reigned 1042-66)

Men duelling with swords

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