Ann Ronan Pictures Collection (page 11)

A Sub-Lime Character, early 19th century. A building labourer carrying a hod of mortar

Siege of Zaragoza, Peninsular War, 16 June-13 August 1808. Maria Augustin, the Maid of Sarogossa, encouraging fellow her fellow citizens to re-man a battery

Postcard commemorating Captain Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, c1912. Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) English antarctic explorer (inset) and his ship the Terra Nova trapped in ice

Smallpox hospital, St Pancras, London, c1800. Fever (isolation) hospitals for highly infectious diseases were built outside cities

The Green Leaf and the Sere, 1887. Artist: Mary Ellen Edwards
The Green Leaf and the Sere, 1887

Elijah, Old Testament prophet, raising the widows son from apparent death, c1860. From the Bible (1 Kings 17)

Murex, c1890. The mollusc which inhabited this shell was the source of Tyrian Purple dye

Widow of a Brahmin committing suttee on her husbands funeral pyre, India, 1815. Despite attempts made from the 16th century to stop this practice

Necropolis (cemetery) in Glasgow, 1888

Hades, 18th century. Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology, showing Charon the ferryman, Cerberus, the three-headed dog guarding the entrance, Pluto and Persephone (centre left) and the River Styx

Death, 1624. A figure in a tomb (circle), his soul and spirit leaving (two boy-headed birds), absorbing the black crow. In the body are salt, sulphur and mercury

Jesus raising Lazarus from his tomb, 1865-1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
Jesus raising Lazarus from his tomb, 1865-1866. From the Bible (John 2:43)

Mummies and embalming, 1725. From A Compleat History of Drugs an English translation of a work by Pierre Pomet, physician to Louis XIV

Dr Syntax watching his wifes coffin being lowered into the grave, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax watching his wifes coffin being lowered into the grave, 1820. From William Combes Dr Syntax. (London, 1820)

Native American funeral customs, c1870. A body left exposed on a raised wooden platform, in the manner practised by the North American Indians of the region of the Saskatchewan river

Grave of a Zulu chief, 1888. The body is in a sitting position in a stone-lined underground chamber. From History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel. (Leipzig, 1888)

Patagonian funeral procession, c1880

Hell: the city of Dis, Roman god of the underworld, 1863. Artist: Gustave Dore
Hell: the city of Dis, Roman god of the underworld, 1863. Dante and Virgil observing sinners burning in Hell. From Inferno, first part of Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri

The Dead Drummer, 1840. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Dead Drummer, 1840. A legend of Salisbury Plain. From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Barham). (London, 1840)

North London Cemetery, Highgate, 1838. View showing the Lebanon Catacombs, terrace and sepulchres built in the Egyptian style popular at this time. Wood engraving 1838

Catacomb of the Capuchin (Franciscan) convent, Palermo, Sicily, 1833
Catacomb of the Capuchin (Franciscan) convent, Palermo, Sicily, with remains of departed Friars, 1833

Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, Normandy, France. The abbey, which is dedicated to St Etienne (Stephen), was founded by William of Normandy (William I of England)

Flagellant, 16th century. Artist: Jost Amman
Flagellant, 16th century. Flagellants were members of a sect, known as the Brothers of the Cross, founded in c1260. They whipped themselves until blood ran in order to obtain Gods mercy

Statue of William the Conqueror, Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, Normandy, France
Damaged statue of William the Conqueror, Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, Normandy, France. William (1027-1087) founded the abbey, which is dedicated to St Etienne (Stephen), and is buried there

Clepsydra (water clock) indicating hours and chiming, 1617-1619. From Utriusque cosmi...historia by Robert Fludd (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Lochaber no More, 1886. Dispossessed Scottish crofters, victims of the Highland clearances, taking their last view of home as they depart on board a ship

Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture and corn. The mother of Proserpina (Persephone), she was known as Demeter in the Greek pantheon

Roman god Neptune, 18th century. Neptune, known as Poseidon in the Greek pantheon, holding his triple-headed spear (trident), in a chariot pulled by sea horses

Roman soldiers: stone slingers and their equipment, 1605. Three men all carrying short hand slings, while on ground are sling sticks which gave the missiles greater impetus

Roman soldiers delivering Greek fire by means of arrows and slings, 1605. From Poliorceticon by Justus Lipsius. (Antwerp, 1605)

Roman war galley equipped with a corvus (right), 18th century. The corvus was a weapon used for boarding enemy vessels, developed in the First Punic War against the Carthaginians

Hereward the Wake, Anglo-Saxon rebel, attacking Peterborough Abbey, 1070 (early 20th century). Hereward attacking the abbey in protest at William Is imposition of a Norman abbot

Death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485 (c19th century)
Death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485 (c19th century). Richard III (1452-1485), the last Yorkist king of England, usurped the throne on the death of his brother, Edward IV

Empress Matilda escaping from the besieged Oxford Castle, 1142 (c19th century). Matilda was the wife of Henry V of Germany, daughter of Henry I of England and mother of Henry II

Stonemasons, c1845. Masons wearing heavy leather safety aprons, sawing stone blocks and shaping them with mallet and chisel. Top: breaking stone with fire and water

Carpenters at work, surrounded by various tools, c1845. Top: felling a tree and cutting it into planks in a saw-pit

Edward the Martyr, 10th century English king, c1860. Edward (Eadward), king from 975, being offered a poisoned drink by his stepmother Aelfthryth at her home at Corfe Castle, Dorset

Portrait photographers studio, 1871. Taking a photograph using natural light only from the large window and skylight

Nicholas II Tsar of Russia, as Tsarevich, c1890. Nicholas (1868-1918) succeeded his father, Alexander III, as Emperor of Russia in 1894

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig of Bermersyde, Scottish-born British soldier, 1917. Haig (1861-1928) was appointed Commander-in-Chief of British and Empire forces in France in 1915

Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, English general, 1917. Rawlinson (1864-1925) was responsible for successfully organising the evacuation of the British

Douglas Haig, Scottish-born British soldier, 1916. Haig (1861-1928) was appointed Commander-in-Chief of British and Empire forces in France in 1915

Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, French soldier. Instrumental in stopping the German advance at the Battle of the Marne in 1914, Joffre (1852-1931) was made Commander-in-Chief of French forces in 1915

Peace commemorations for the end of the Crimean War, at Plymouth, England, 1856. Rockets and general illumination of the fleet in Plymouth sound. From The Illustrated London News, 1 June 1856

Sterling Price, American statesman and soldier, 1861. Price (1809-1867) was Governor of the State of Missouri (1853-1857)

Sarah Siddons, 18th century English tragic actress. Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) was the eldest child of the actor-manager Roger Kemble (1722-1802)

Dark Artillery; or, How to Make the Contrabands Useful, American Civil War, 1861. Contrabands were Negro slaves who had escaped or been brought across Union (northern) lines

Confederate General Hood wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, American Civil War, 1863
Confederate General Hood wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, American Civil War, 1863. The battle, fought on 18-20 September 1860 claimed over 34

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