Desolation Collection

Saint John the Evangelist in Patmos, 1470. Creator: Cosmè Tura
Saint John the Evangelist in Patmos, 1470.

La Picardie Mutilee; Le calvaire de Pressoir, 1917. Creator: Unknown
La Picardie Mutilee; Le calvaire de Pressoir, 1917. First World War: Picardy mutilated - calvary. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Un Zeppelin sur Paris; Un trou dans la voute du Metropolitain : aspects exterieur et... 1916. Creator: Gorce
Un Zeppelin sur Paris; Un trou dans la voute du Metropolitain : aspects exterieur et interieur de la breche; la seconde photographie a ete prise apres l'enlevement des debris et le remplacement

Leurs "Heros de L'Air" ont attaque la "Fortresse Paris". 1916. Creator: J Simont
Leurs "Heros de L'Air" ont attaque la "Fortresse Paris", 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Un Zeppelin sur Paris; les deux plus importants "exploits" de ceux que les Allemands... 1916
Un Zeppelin sur Paris; les deux plus importants "exploits" de ceux que les Allemands appellent leurs "Heros de l'air", 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Painting, title unknown, mid 19th century. Artist: Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna
Painting, title unknown, mid 19th century

The Prophet Jeremiah Mourning over the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
The Prophet Jeremiah Mourning over the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630. From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Valley of Desolation, 1910. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Valley of Desolation, 1910

September 1940, (1944). Creator: John Armstrong
September 1940, (1944). Aftermath of an aerial battle during the Second World War: wrecked German and British fighter planes on a beach. Painting in the Manchester Art Gallery

How The Weather Hindered the Advance, (1919). Creator: Unknown
How The Weather Hindered the Advance, (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: The photograph illustrates the difficulty of movement when the weather broke down

Desolation des Peruviens pendant L Eclipse de Lune, 1723. Creator: Bernard Picart
Desolation des Peruviens pendant L Eclipse de Lune, 1723. Desolation of the Peruvians during the lunar eclipse. From " Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde"

The Gin Juggarnath or the Worship of the Great Spirit of the age!! …, 1835
The Gin Juggarnath or the Worship of the Great Spirit of the age!! - Its devotees destroy themselves - Its progress is marked with desolation, Misery and Crime, pub 1835 (hand coloured engraving)

A Scene of Desolation. - A Street in Peronne, 1919. Artist: War Office
A Scene of Desolation. - A Street in Peronne, 1919. For most of World War I the town of Peronne, Somme, was occupied by German troops. It was finally liberated on the 2nd September 1918

Watching a sand whirlwind from the top of Hawara pyramid, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Watching a sand whirlwind from the top of Hawara pyramid, Egypt, 1905. What a picture of desolation! And yet we are standing in the midst of one of the most fertile tracts in the world

Transport of Prostitutes to the Salpetriere, c1760-1770. Artist: Etienne Jeaurat
Transport of Prostitutes to the Salpetriere, c1760-1770. From the Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

The courageous action of Eustache de Saint-Pierre at the Siege of Calais, 1346. A scene from the 100 Years War, in which Edward III of England, having finally taken Calais

Portrait of an Old Woman, 1654. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Portrait of an Old Woman, 1654. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

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