Escape Collection (page 5)

You will not escape, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
You will not escape, 1799. Plate 72 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Le Traineau, c1850-1890. Artist: Stanislas Lepine
Le Traineau, c1850-1890. Although generally not considered an Impressionist painter, Stanislas participated in the first Impressionist exhibition held in 1874. He died suddenly in Paris in 1892

Death in Barouche, c1850-1890. Artist: Stanislas Lepine
Death in Barouche, c1850-1890. Although generally not considered an Impressionist painter, Stanislas participated in the first Impressionist exhibition held in 1874

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1756. Artist: Jean Bernard Restout
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1756. On the Holy Familys flight into Egypt to avoid King Herods Massacre of the Innocents

Marriage A-la-Mode: 5. The Bagnio, c1743. Artist: William Hogarth
Marriage A-la-Mode: 5. The Bagnio, c1743. A bagnio, originally a coffee houses which offered Turkish baths, later meant a place where rooms could be rented with no questions asked

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

Illustration from the Golden Haggadah, 15th century
Illustration from the Golden Haggadah, a Spanish Hebrew manuscript. The Haggadah is used on Passover Eve to commemorate the escape from Egypt

A mosaic showing St Paul escaping from a city in a basket, 12th century
A mosaic showing St Paul escaping from a city in a basket, in the Apse of Monreale Cathedral, 12th century

Babylonian story of the flood on a clay tablet, probably from Sippor, Old Babylonian, 1635BC. This is one of three tablets which contained the Epic of Ammisaduqa, hero of the Babylonian flood story

Great Fire of London, 1666 (19th century). Old St Paul s, destroyed in the fire, seen from the south bank of the Thames. Refugees from the flames cluster in boats

Great Fire of London, 1666 (c1865). Artist: Kronheim & Co
Great Fire of London, 1666 (c1865). Boats full of citizens who have escaped cross the Thames while others look back to Old St Pauls and the blazing city from the safety of the South Bank

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

Fugitive slaves fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the Underground Railroad, 1850-1851. The Underground Railroad was a secret organisation set up in the northern United States in defiance of

The Country Walk, c1880. A family from a mill town, whose chimneys are in the background, taking a Sunday walk

Napoleon retreating from Moscow, 1812. Napoleon riding at speed on a horse drawn sleigh, escorted by a squadron of cavalry. Of the 600, 000 soldiers of his Grande Armee, only about 100, 000 returned

Escape of the prisoners of the Mahdi, Khartoum, Sudan, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Escape of the prisoners of the Mahdi, Khartoum, Sudan, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 23rd January 1892

Lot and His Daughters, 1496-1499. Artist: Albrecht Durer
Lot and His Daughters, 1496-1499. The story of Lot and his daughters comes from the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Genesis. From the Samuel H Kress Collection, Washington DC, USA

Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 (1817). Napoleon (1769-1821) French soldier and emperor, fleeing from the battlefield of Waterloo after his defeat by the British under Wellington

Jonah being spewed up by the whale, 1557. In the middle of the picture he is shown falling overboard and being swallowed. From Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon by Conrad Lycosthenes. (Basel 1557)

Carpet sweeper, c1900s. A startled insect hurries to escape from a woman using a carpet sweeper, which the insect has confused with an automobile

Flooding during the excavation of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1828 (1836). Tom, Jerry and Logic having a narrow escape as water breaks through during a visit to the Thames Tunnel workings

Uhlans in Pursuit of a Balloon, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 (1881). A group of Prussian cavalry giving chase to a balloon which had escaped from the besieged city of Paris

Leon Gambetta, French politician about to escape besieged Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Leon Gambetta (1838-82), French Republican politician (in hat, centre) about to escape besieged Paris for Tours by balloon, 7 October 1870. Dictator of France for 5 months. [Paris, 1890]

Balloon ascent at night from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War
Balloon ascent from Gare du Nord, Paris, at night, to carry dispatches out of besieged city during Franco-Prussian War. In foreground men are picking up basket of homing pigeons which the baloon

Greek red-figured volute krater with scene from the sack of Troy, 4th century BC. Artist: Illupersis Painter
Red-figured volute krater with scene from the sack of Troy, showing Cassandra clinging to the altar of Athena, with Ajax the lesser approaching from the right

Illustration from a poster advertising a theatrical production of Uncle Toms Cabin, 1870. George, defending his wife and child from recapture

Eruption of Vesuvius, 1906
Eruption of Vesuvius. People being evacuated from their houses as Vesuvius erupts in the background: April, 1906. From Le Petit Journal, Paris 20 April 1906

A balloon from Paris passing over Versailles, Franco-Prussian War, 1870 (1871). During the war Paris was under siege from September 1870 to January 1871

Opium den in the Chninese quarter of San Francisco, c1870. Wood engraving

The Flag of Freedom, 1875. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Flag of Freedom, 1875. An escaped slave clings to Britains flagpole as John Bull argues the toss with the First Lord of the Admiralty, G Ward Hunt

Le Colisee (The Colosseum), in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenee Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenee the Younger), 1782-1821

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