Encouraging Collection

How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross on September 25, 1915, (c1920). Creator
How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross on September 25, 1915, (c1920). Playing the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borderers out of their trenches at the Battle of Loos in the midst of the gas attack

Dorando Pietri finishing the first modern Olympic marathon, London, 1908. The marathon at the London Olympics of 1908 was run in ususually hot conditions

Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). Artist: As Forrest
Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). The British Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni encourages her soldiers to fight the Romans

Kilties enter 71st Regt. Armory, July 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Kilties enter 71st Regt. Armory, July 1917. Canadian Highlander soldiers (Kilties) entering the 71st Regiment Armory, Park Avenue (between East 33rd and 4th streets), New York City

Kilties in New York, July 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Kilties in New York, July 1917. Canadian Highlander soldiers and band marching in New York City. The Highlander regiments were in the United States in July of 1917 for "British Recruiting

The Geisha Umekichi Imploring Nakajima Seibi to Part from Her and Return to His Studies, 1875. Series: The Postal News, No. 463

The Geisha Umekichi Imploring Nakajima Seibi to Leave Her and Return to His Studies, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Geisha Umekichi Imploring Nakajima Seibi to Leave Her and Return to His Studies, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 463

The Osaka Youth Who Regained His Speech after His Father's Death, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Osaka Youth Who Regained His Speech after His Father's Death, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 651

Mother and Child, 1898. Creator: Ogata Gekko
Mother and Child, Late 1898. From Customs of Women. New Year's Shrine Visit

The Emergence of Kaushiki, Folio from a Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess), c1750 or earlier. Creator: Unknown
The Emergence of Kaushiki, Folio from a Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess), c1750 or earlier

The Dance, 1870. Creator: Aime Gabriel Adolphe Bourgoin
The Dance, 1870

A Merry Christmas and Sit Down and Partake; Christmas 1853, 1853. Creator: Unknown
A Merry Christmas and Sit Down and Partake; Christmas 1853, 1853. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19ème arrondissement de la Ville... 1880
Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19eme arrondissement de la Ville de Paris : Ceres - L'Abondance encourageant le Travail, 1880

Proclamation to the army, 13 October 1805, (1921). Creator: Unknown
Proclamation to the army, 13 October 1805, (1921). Proclamation a l armee. Address by the Emperor Napoleon to his troops at Pfaffenhofen in Germany

Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni... (mid 19th century). Creator: Henry Lemon
Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni. (Animating the Britons to defend their country against the Romans), (mid 19th century). Boudicca (c25-62 AD), queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe

Chao Hsia visiting the fields, encouraging people to plant Mulberry trees. Chinese Painting from series about the beneficient governor Chao Hsia, a wise mandarin and perfect Confucian official

Haydn praised the composition highly, (1907). Creator: Unknown
Haydn praised the composition highly, (1907). In 1792, the celebrated Austrian composer Haydn was to pass through Bonn on his way to Vienna from London

Boadicea, 1873. Creator: Unknown
Boadicea, mid-late 19th century. Boudicca encourages her warriors from a chariot with blades on the wheels. The Roman army is gathered near a stone circle in the distance

Mohammed II Encouraging His Seamen, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Mohammed II Encouraging His Seamen, 1890. Mehmed the Conqueror (1432-1481) Otoman Sultan described as the lord of the two lands and two seas (the Aegean and Black seas)

Theodor Korner, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Theodor Korner, (1936). German poet and soldier Carl Theodor Korner (1791-1813) joined the Lutzow Free Corps in the German uprising against Napoleon

Proclamation To my people, 17 March 1813, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Proclamation " To my people", 17 March 1813, (1936). Aufruf " An Mein Volk", 17 Marz 1813. The proclamation was issued by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (1770-1840)

Professor Steffens rouses his audience to fight for freedom, 8 February 1813, (1936). Professor Steffens Begeistert Seine Zuhorer Fur Den Freiheitskrieg, 8 Februar 1813

The Capuchin friar Joachim Haspinger, (1936). Creator: Unknown
The Capuchin friar Joachim Haspinger, (1936). Der Kapuzinermonch Joachim Haspinger. Johann Simon (Joachim) Haspinger (1776-1858) was a priest and a leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion

Frederick the Great makes a speech... on the eve of the Battle of Leuthen, 5 December 1757, (1936)
Frederick the Great makes a speech to his generals on the eve of the Battle of Leuthen, 5 December 1757, (1936). Ansprache Friedrichs Des Grossen An Seine Generale Am Abend Vor Der Schlacht Bei

Suvorovs March through the Alps, 1799, (1899), (1939). Creator: Vasily Surikov
Suvorovs March through the Alps, 1799, (1899), (1939). In 1799 and 1780, General Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800) commanded a Russian army in campaigns against the French in Piedmont and Switzerland

Up, Guards and at them!, 1899. Creator: Richard Caton Woodville II
Up Guards and at them!, 1899. Drummer-boy leading a charge of British soldiers, scene based on a quote by the Duke of Wellington: Up, Guards, and at them again

Jack Ketch executing sentence on a culprit, 1832. Artist
Jack Ketch executing sentence on a culprit, 1832. A hangman pulls at a rope secured around the neck of a bust of the Duke of Wellington; John Key, Matthew Wood and Robert Waithman cheer him

As You Like It. Act 2. Scene 6. Orlando & Adam, 1798. Artist: George Noble
As You Like It. Act 2. Scene 6. Orlando & Adam, 1798. After Robert Smirke (1753-1845). From Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, 1795, by John Boydell. [J. & J. Boydell, London, 1795]

Liberty Leading the People 28th July 1830 (1900). Delacroixs famous depiction of the events of the July Revolution in Paris in 1830 that led to the abdication of King Charles X of France

A French Canadian army recruitment poster, 1914. 619, 636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I

Illustration from the childrens book Little Bo-Peep, c1880. Artist: Ernest Henry Griset
Illustration from the childrens book Little Bo-Peep, c1880. Found in the collection of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow

Preaching Holy War during an uprising in British India, 1897. Artist: F Meaulle
Preaching Holy War during an uprising in British India, 1897. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 3rd October 1897

Aristeus Compels Proteus to Reveal his Oracles, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Aristeus Compels Proteus to Reveal his Oracles, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Young Greeks Encouraging Cocks to Fight, 1846. Artist: Jean-Leon Gerome
Young Greeks Encouraging Cocks to Fight, 1846. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Artist: Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Painted to commemorate the July Revolution of 1830. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen. From the Louvre, Paris

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