Dangerous Collection (#12)

Disaster at Saint-Sauveur hospital, Lille, France, 1896. Artist: Henri Meyer
Disaster at Saint-Sauveur hospital, Lille, France, 1896. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 12th April 1896. Soldiers, firemen and nurses trying to evacuate people from the burning building

Heroism of a teacher, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 7th December 1902

People stranded on ice floes, Finland, 1894. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 5th March 1894

A Terrible Accident in the Alps, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
A Terrible Accident in the Alps, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 23rd July 1892

Scene of the Deluge, 1675. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
Scene of the Deluge, 1675. A print from Arca Noe, Amsterdam, 1675. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

A terrible accident, Paris to Madrid race, 1903. The Paris-Madrid race of 1903 was one of a series of races staged between European cities on public roads in the early 1900s

A balloon on a roof, 1894. Firemen trying to come to the aid of a balloonist who has crash landed on a roof. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1894

Death of an aeronaut over Beuzeville, France, 1899. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1899

A soldier carried aloft by a Balloon, 1901. Published illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1901

A Balloon struck by lightning near Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1891. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1891

Electric Tramway, 19th century. Private Collection

Passage of the Argonauts through the Symplegades, Hellespont, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Passage of the Argonauts through the Symplegades, Hellespont, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) protect a ship, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
The Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) protect a ship, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The fall of Icarus, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
The fall of Icarus, 1733. A plate from Le temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The fall of Phaeton, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The fall of Phaeton, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615

Hercules, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Hercules, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Hercules and the Hydra, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Hercules and the Hydra, 1655. A plate from Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Argonauts Pass the Symplegades, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
The Argonauts Pass the Symplegades, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Storm in the Desert, 1901. Artist: Robert Talbot Kelly
Storm in the Desert, 1901. From a private collection

Heliopolis, 1878. Artist: William Simpson
Heliopolis, 1878. Found in the collection of the The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Boat, 1820-1876. Artist: George Sand
The Boat, 1820-1876. George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876)

Russian soldiers clearing mines, west of Minsk, 1944

Russian soldiers with mine detectors clearing a booby-trapped house, Eastern Front, 1944
Russian soldiers with mine detectors clearing a house booby-trapped by the Germans, Eastern Front, 1944

Peace and Security for Each Nation. Artist: Honore Daumier
Peace and Security for Each Nation. French postcard showing Peace flying past a series of hazardous cobwebs

The Storm, 1569. Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Storm, 1569. An unfinished work, probably the artists last painting. From the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Third Eddystone lighthouse, 19th century. Built by the English civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792) between 1757 and 1759, this was the third lighthouse to be sited on Eddystone Rocks

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish scientist and naturalist, 1874. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778), the founder of the modern system of plant

The Presentation at the Temple and the Flight Into Egypt, 1394-1399. Artist: Melchior Broederlam
The Presentation at the Temple and the Flight Into Egypt, 1394-1399. Right-hand panel of an altar triptych from the Carthusian monastery, Dijon, France

Aerostier, Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Print from a series titled Souvenirs du Siege de Paris. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III

Train Crash at Bellevue in 1842 (19th century). From the Chateau of Sceaux, France

Theatre, late 16th / early 17th century. Artist: Jacques Bellange
Theatre, Bellange, Private Collection

A Village Bullfight, c1812-1814. Artist: Francisco Goya
A Village Bullfight, c1812-1814. From the Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

St John the Evangelist with the Poisoned Cup, 1636. Artist: Alonso Cano
St John the Evangelist with the Poisoned Cup, 1636. According to the Bible (Matthew Ch20 v23), a cup of poisoned wine was passed to St John and, as he blessed it

Coal mining disaster, Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, Yorkshire, December 1866. 350 people were killed in the disaster including a number who perished in the second

Coal miner working a narrow seam, c1864. The miner is crouching on the floor and, with a pickaxe, is holing out or scuffling out the coal

Coal mining accident, Tynewydd Colliery, South Wales, April 1877 (c1885). Artist: William Heysham Overend
Coal mining accident, Tynewydd Colliery, South Wales, April 1877 (c1885). Volunteers digging through an obstruction to rescue colleagues trapped in flooded workings in the Tynewydd Colliery in

Coal mining accident, Seaham Colliery, County Durham, 1880 (c1895). Men being lowered down the pit shaft in a coal tub to begin rescue operations after the disaster of September 1880

Early 19th century coal miner working a narrow seam, c1868. The miner, stripped to the waist, is lying on his side and, with a pickaxe, is holing out or scuffling coal

Poisonous plants, c1885. As well as the poisonous Black or Common Nightshade (Solanum nigrum) (top left), and Woody Nightshade or Bittersweet (Solanum dulcarama) (top right)

Cameramen under fire while filming in the First Balkan War, 1912. By 1912 cinemas were showing newsreels and war reporters were being accompanied by camera teams

Needle-making equipment, 1819. The large machine at bottom right is George Priors dry grinder with a box partly enclosing the grindstone to minimise dust (1813)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac making a balloon ascent from Paris, 14 September 1804 (1910). On this flight, French chemist and physicist Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist, physicist and balloonist, c1824. Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) investigated the behaviour of gases and developed techniques of chemical analysis

Jean Baptiste Biot and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French scientists, 1804 (1870). Biot (1774-1864) and Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)

Experiment to calculate the speed of sound in air, Paris, 1822, (c1880). Artist: Robert Brown
Experiment to calculate the speed of sound in air, Paris, 1822, (c1880). In 1822 the French appointed a commission to find the speed of sound in air

False colour image of Antarctic ozone hole, 30 November 1992. The ozone layer plays a vital role in protecting life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation

Vesuvius erupting, Italy, c1815. Vesuvius during one of its early 19th century eruptions. People observing the eruption from inside the volcanos cone which is emitting smoke and flames

Sliding on Thin Ice, 1869. Artist: John Tenniel
Sliding on Thin Ice, 1869. English converts to Rome including Newman, skating on thin ice while, on the left, Pusey and his Anglo-Catholic Ritualistic friends test the ice before committing

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