Tyrant Collection

USA, The Confederate Battle Flag and the Virginia State Flag
USA - The Confederate Battle Flag and the Virginia State Flag (a deep blue field contains the seal of Virginia with the Latin motto " Sic Semper Tyrannis" - " Thus Always to)

Joseph Stalin, Soviet Russian leader
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), Soviet Russian leader. Seen here in uniform, waving. Date: circa 1940s

Damocles dines with a sword hanging over his head
Damocles, member of the Greek court of Dionysius of Siragusa (Syracuse), Sicily, dines dangerously, with a sword hanging over his head. Date: 404 BC

White-headed marsh tyrant, Arundinicola leucocephala (White-headed tody, Todus leucocephalus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds

Long-tailed tyrant, Colonia colonus (Peruvian flycatcher, Le Colon). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1823

Tawny-crowned pygmy tyrant, Euscarthmus meloryphus (Rufus-crowned tody, Lepturus ruficeps). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William

Eared pygmy tyrant, Myiornis auricularis (Great-headed tody, Todus megacephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Spectacled tyrant, Hymenops perspicillatus (Spectacle or white-winged water-chat, Perspicilla leucoptera). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson

Masked water tyrant, Fluvicola nengeta (Mocking water-chat). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Crested black tyrant, Knipolegus lophotes (Crested-black water-chat, Blechropus cristatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William

Cock-tailed tyrant, Alectrurus tricolor. Vulnerable
Cock-tailed tyrant, Alectrurus tricolor (Cock-tailed water-chat, Alectura azarii). Vulnerable. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir

Streamer-tailed tyrant, Gubernetes yetapa (Scissortail or swallow blackcap, Gubernetes forficatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir

Ancient miniatures representing jousts from the Vatican Library. The bottom scene from a French manuscript, Universal Stories Sacred and Profane, 1290

1909 / RUSSIAN TYRANT
The Russian tyrant is kicked out by Socialism. Date: 1909

Bronze helmet of Corinthian type. 5th century B. C. Olympia A
Bronze helmet of Corinthian type. 5th century b.C. Votive offering in the Sanctuary of Zeus by Hieron, tyrant of Syracuse

Cupid the Tyrant by Flix de Gray
A piece of art showing Cupid forcing love upon an unsuspecting girl sitting on a mossy log. Cupid holds out a heart to the back of the girl, who is wearing a blue floral dress

Theatre Characters -- a tyrant, a rival, a lady in waiting, a horseman, a townswoman an innkeeper, a fool and a soldier. (2 of 2) 19th century

Giovanni II Bentivoglio (1443-1508). Colored engraving
Giovanni II Bentivoglio (1443-1508). Italian noble. Engraving in The Universal History, 1881. Colored

Folklore / Ring
POLYCRATES, TYRANT OF SAMOS throws a precious ring into the sea, to ward off ill luck, but a fisherman finds it and brings it to him - and soon Polycrates is murdered... Date: circa 515 BC

The Tyrant by Rafael Sabatini
Promotional postcard for The Tyrant by Rafael Sabatini. First produced Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 9th March and New Theatre, 18th March 1925

Suffragette Votes for a Man Apiece. Four suffragettes votes for womens papers, hammer and paraffin can between them(all useful to the militants) vow

Suffragette Defies the Tyrant Man. Depicts a very small suffragette carrying a VFW flag while a very tall policeman, hands behind his back, looks down at her from the pavement

Conseil Des 500
Napoleon is assailed as Tyrant and Dictator by the Conseil des 500 in the Orangerie de Saint-Cloud : he dissolves the assembly and assumes power as First Consul Date: 9-10 November 1799

Pitangus sulphuratus, great kiskadee
A male specimen of the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

The rise of the kitchen tyrant; - and how she may fall. Illustration shows the evolution of the domestic servant from country housewife to an employed domestic through seven scenes beginning with

The great railway revolution
Scenes and incidents showing the conflict waged in the southwest between the forces of honest industry and the agents of the arch-tyrant Jay Gould. Date: 1886

1909 / Russian Tyrant
Socialism expels the Russian tyrant - a somewhat premature cartoon : the Tsar has still eight years to go before his abdication

Hermias, Greek Royalty
HERMIAS, tyrant of Artaneus and Assos, friend and patron of the Greek philosopher Aristotle

Hiero Ii / Syracuse / Eng
HIERO II OF SYRACUSE or HIERONYMUS II Tyrant of Syracuse who supported Rome in the First and Second Punic Wars

Talk with Peasant Woman
Incognito, he asks a peasant woman of Tarare, near Lyon, isn t Napoleon like any other tyrant ? - No, because they chose him, whereas the old kings were forced on them

Periander, Greek Royalty
Periander, Tyrant of Corinth

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