Bastion Collection

View of the old marina in Amsterdam, seen towards the Bolwerk Leeuwenburg or Blauwhoofd, 1753-1799. In the background the IJ

View of Port and Bastion in Palermo, 1778. Creator: Louis Ducros
View of Port and Bastion in Palermo, 1778. Drawing from the album Voyage to Italy, Sicily and Malta

Point-du-Jour Viaduct and Bastion 35, in March 1870. Creator: Jules Mary
Point-du-Jour Viaduct and Bastion 35, in March 1870

Workers Crowning the Breach of Bastion 7, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expédition de Rome, 1859
Workers Crowning the Breach of Bastion 7, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition de Rome, 1859

Assault and capture of bastion no. 6, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expédition de Rome, 1858. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Assault and capture of bastion no. 6, from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition de Rome, 1858

Kronborg seen from the north bastion, 1848. Creator: Joachim Ferdinand Richardt
Kronborg seen from the north bastion, 1848

View of the Gate of the Garden of Secundra, c1891. Creator: James Grant
View of the Gate of the Garden of Secundra, c1891. From " Cassells Illustrated History of India Vol. I.", by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York]

Fort William, S. E. Angle, 1756, (1925). Creator: Unknown
Fort William, S.E. Angle (1756), 1925. From British Government in India, Volume One, by Lord Curzon of Kedleston. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne, 1925]

Bastion of London Wall near Monkwell Street, City of London, 1840

Bastion at the angle of London Wall, St Giles without Cripplegate churchyard, City of London, 1779
Bastion at the angle of London Wall, in St Giles without Cripplegate churchyard, City of London, 1779

Bayraktar Mosque, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2001. Cyprus was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Turks in 1570-1571. The Bayraktar Mosque was the first mosque to be built in Nicosia after the conquest

Venetian bastion, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2001. Cyprus came under Venetian rule in 1489. They heavily fortified Nicosia with 4.5 metre thick city walls built between 1567 and 1570

Bastion walls, the Fortezza, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. The Fortezza is a fortress built by the Venetians, who ruled Crete from 1204 until the Ottoman Turks conquered the island in the mid 17th

White Bastion, old town walls, Famagusta, North Cyprus. The town walls of Famagusta were built by the Venetians, who ruled Cyprus from 1489 until 1571 and made Famagusta their capital

Plan of the Sherpur Cantonments, c1880. Episode of the Second Anglo?Afghan War, from 1878 to 1880. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. IV, by James Grant

Carmelite and Armenian churches at Martinengo Bastion, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, 1936
The Carmelite and Armenian churches at Martinengo Bastion, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. From a private album of a passenger who undertook a cruise on the S.S. Arandora Star, which began 9th April, 1936

The Bastion of the Elms, 1884. Artist: Emmanuel Lansyer
The Bastion of the Elms, 1884. The interior of the Chateau de Chinon. From the collection of the Musee Lansyer, Loches, France

Star Fort defended by a moat coming under siege, 1617-1619. From Utriusque cosmi...historia by Robert Fludd. (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Fortifications, c1880. An ancient fortress with curtain walls (top) and a bastioned fortress (bottom)

Captain Lebedief heroically defending the bastion at Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 25 September 1904

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