Abandoned Collection (page 8)

Muckross Abbey, Killarney, c1882

Lake Van, Tadwan Bay and Mount Nimrud, Turkey, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XVII, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co

The Raft of the Medusa, 1900. The Medusa was a French frigate wrecked on a sandbank off the coast of Senegal in 1816. The incident became infamous due to the incompetence of the ships captain

Interior of Croydon Palace, Surrey, 1829. Artist: James Lambert
Interior of Croydon Palace, Surrey, 1829. Croydon Palace used to be the summer residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the 18th century the palace with its 15th century Great Hall had fallen

Pevensey Castle, Pevensey, East Sussex, 1829. Artist: J Rogers
Pevensey Castle, Pevensey, East Sussex, 1829. A castle was first built at Pevensey early in the 4th century by the Romans, but it was destroyed by Saxon invaders in the late 5th century

Captain Blighs boat abandoned by the Bounty, 1789 (1886). Artist: JR Ashton
Captain Blighs boat abandoned by the Bounty, 1789 (1886). William Bligh is best known for the mutiny that occurred against his command, aboard HMS Bounty

A captured German trench and bunker system, Souchez, Artois, France, 1 June 1915, (1926). German positions captured by the French

Abandoned German trenches, Eparges ridge, near Verdun, France, August 1915

Defeat of the Dutch Fleet, 1666 (c1850s). The Dutch fleet fought several battles with the British navy in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War

The Death of Dido, c1637-c1640. Artist: Sebastien Bourdon
The Death of Dido, c1637-c1640. Dido, Queen of Carthage, commits suicide after being abandoned by her lover, Aeneas. The story is recounted in the Aeniad, a poem by the Roman poet Virgil

Landscape with a Dead Horse, 1850s. Artist: Gustave Courbet
Landscape with a Dead Horse, 1850s. Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Flight into Egypt, c1566-1611. Artist: Bartholomeus Spranger
Flight into Egypt, c1566-1611

Bystanders examining an abandoned tank on the Rue de Medicis, liberation of Paris, August 1944

Where is our dad, French Postcard, c1900. Private collection

The Finding of Moses, 16th century. Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto
The Finding of Moses, 16th century. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Chloe Abandoned, design for a Ballet Russes production of Ravels Daphnis and Chloe, 1910-1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Chloe Abandoned, design for a Ballet Russes production of Ravels Daphnis and Chloe, 1910-1911. From the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris

The Interdict, 1875. Artist: Jean-Paul Laurens
The Interdict, 1875. From the Musee des Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France

Millstone Edge, West of Sheffield, Peak District, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Millstone Edge, West of Sheffield, Peak District, 20th century. Millstone is regarded as one of the most popular gritstone crags in the Peak District

Cornwall, Taylors Shaft Engine House, Cambourne, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Taylors Shaft Engine House, East Pool Tin Mine, Cambourne, Cornwall, 20th century. 90-inch Beam Pumping Engine in Camborne, a town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England

Old Tine Mine in Cambourne, Cornwall, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Old Tin Mine in Cambourne, Cornwall, 20th century. Camborne is a town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, formerly one of the richest tin mining areas in the world

Wharram Percy, an abandoned medieval village

Mutiny of the crew of HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789. Lieutenant William Bligh (1754-1817), English naval officer and his 18 companions cast adrift in a longboat by Fletcher Christian

The fall of Richmond, Virginia, American Civil War, 2 April 1865. Artist: Currier and Ives
The fall of Richmond, Virginia, American Civil War, 2 April 1865. Confederates abandoning their capital city having first set fire to it. From a Currier and Ives print

Scene from The Babes in the Wood, 1878. Artist: Randolph Caldecott
Scene from The Babes in the Wood, 1878. No burial these prettye babes/Of any man receives./Till Robin-redbreast painfully/Did cover them with leaves

Scene from The Babes (Children) in the Wood, 1878. Artist: Randolph Caldecott
Scene from The Babes (Children) in the Wood, 1878. These prettye babes, with hand in hand, /Went wandering up and downe. The Babes uncle has paid two ruffians to murder them

Deserted !, 1875. Artist: Joseph Swain
Deserted !, 1875. Mr Disraeli, the Conservative Prime Minister, stands on the right with his Lord Chancellor, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns

Away from all help and without pants, on some deserted shore from the Little Miseries of Human Life, 1843

West Front of Tintern Abbey, c1870. Founded on 9 May 1131 by Walter de Clare, in Tintern, Monmouthshire, the abbey fell into ruin after Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century

Hurstmonceaux Castle, c1870. 15th century Herstmonceux Castle, built in brick by Sir Roger Fiennes and then by his son, Lord Dacre, dismantled in 1777 leaving only the exterior walls standing

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