Espionage Collection

U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. Creator: NASA
U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. After Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union during a CIA spy flight on May 1, 1960

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Christine Keeler, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Christine Keeler, 1960s, (2023). Keeler (1942-2017) was a British model who, during the Cold War, had an affair with a married Cabinet minister, John Profumo

"The Prodigal Son", drawn by S. Read, 1860. Creator: M. Jackson. "The Prodigal Son", drawn by S
"The Prodigal Son", drawn by S. Read, 1860. Warily, almost stealthily, with bated breath and cautious step, the youthful figure crossed the terrace walk

Narihira Watching Court Ladies of Oshu Province, c1766. Creator: Shunsho
Narihira Watching Court Ladies of Oshu Province, c1766. Series: Tales of Ise in Iroha Order

Sur la scène/Dans les coulisses, 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sur la scene/Dans les coulisses, 1853. On Stage/Behind the Scenes. (In the wings, an actor, dressed as a Roman, exchanges something with another man (the theatre manager?). From Croquis Parisiens

Pour une belle vue, v'là une belle vue!, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!, 1847. Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!...j'decouvre tout Paris...tiens j'vois ma maison...tiens j'vois ma femme...tiens j'vois

Pour une belle vue, v'là une belle vue!.. 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!.. 1847. Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue!...j'decouvre tout Paris...tiens j'vois ma maison...tiens j'vois ma femme...tiens j'vois

L'Acteur...on voit bien qu'il fait chaud... 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'Acteur...on voit bien qu'il fait chaud... 1856. L'Acteur...- On voit bien qu'il fait chaud...trois spectateurs dans la salle...faut-il commencer

The Great Battle at Ichinotani during the Genpei Wars (Ichinotani Genpei Okassen), 1853. Creator: Yoshikazu
The Great Battle at Ichinotani during the Genpei Wars (Ichinotani Genpei Okassen) (image 1 of 3), 1853. The Great Battle at the Minamoto

"The Bravos" - painted by Meissonier, 1856. Creator: Joseph Lionel Williams
"The Bravos" - painted by Meissonier, 1856. Engraving...after a picture by Meissonier, a very popular artist in France, who paints small fancy subjects

Satyr Spying on Sleeping Nymph, Antiope, 1645-1680. Creator: Toussaint Gelton
Satyr Spying on Sleeping Nymph, Antiope, 1645-1680

Le chatiment des denonciateurs de Laon; quadruple execution capitale a Vincennes...1920. Creator: Unknown
Le chatiment des denonciateurs de Laon; quadruple execution capitale a Vincennes, le 15 mai 1920: la mise en joue, 1920. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du " bonnet rouge"; trois condamnes: Landau... 1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du " bonnet rouge"; trois condamnes: Landau en haut, Duval et Leymarie, 1917

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; l'accusateur: le lieut... 1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; l'accusateur: le lieutenant Mornet, commissaire du gouvernement, 1917

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; Duval repondant... 1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; Duval repondant a l'interrogatoire, 1917

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; Leymarie, qui, prevenu... 1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; Leymarie, qui, prevenu libre, n'etait pas assis parmi ses coinculpes, 1917

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; le president du... 1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; le president du conseil de guerre, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; le banc des accuses...1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire du "bonnet rouge"; le banc des accuses: a droite, a extremite, Duval, 1917

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: une attitude de Bolo, attentif au... 1918
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: une attitude de Bolo, attentif au requisitoire, 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: le lieutenant Mornet, commissaire du... Creator: Unknown
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: le lieutenant Mornet, commissaire du gouvernement. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

'Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: les accuses et leurs defenseurs a l'audience
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: les accuses et leurs defenseurs a l'audience. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; la premiere audience du Conseil de guerre appele... 1918. Creator: Unknown
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; la premiere audience du Conseil de guerre appele a juger Bolo et son coinculpe Porchere, le 4 fevrier 1918

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: l'aventurier Bolo don't l'arrestation... 1917
Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: l'aventurier Bolo dont l'arrestation longtemps differee fut operee le 29 septembre 1917, 1917

Le defaitisme et les grands proces; l'affaire Bolo: le capitaine Bouchardon qui instruisit toutes les affaires dites de "trahison"

Nymph surprised, after Boucher. Creator: Unknown
Nymph surprised, after Boucher. Satyr surprising a sleeping nymph. (La Nymphe surprise, d'apres Boucher)

"James II. in his Palace of Whitehall, Receiving the News...", 1850. Creator: Unknown. "James II
"James II. in his Palace of Whitehall, Receiving the News of the Landing of the Prince of Orange in 1688" - painted by E. M. Ward, A.R.A. 1850. Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London

Thornton and MacDonald released after the Metro-Vickers Affair, 1933, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Thornton and MacDonald released after the Metro-Vickers Affair, 1933, (1935). L.C. Thornton and W.L. MacDonald arrive back in England after an international crisis

Divertissement aquatique renouvelé des Grecs, 1857. Creator: Honore Daumier
Divertissement aquatique renouvele des Grecs, 1857. Renewed aquatic entertainment of the Greeks. Series: Croquis d'ete, no. 20; Periodical: Le Charivari, 16-17 August 1857

Gipsy Dancer; Notes on Albania, 1875. Creator: Frederick A. Lyons
Gipsy Dancer; Notes on Albania, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] Belle Sauvage Works.London E.C

Belle Boyd, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown
Belle Boyd, between 1855 and 1865. [Confederate spy in the American Civil War]

Pauline Cushman, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown
Pauline Cushman, between 1855 and 1865. [Actress, spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War]

Greenhow, Mrs. & daughter (imprisoned in old Capitol Prison in Wash. D. C. ), between 1865 and 1880. Creator: Unknown
Greenhow, Mrs. & daughter (imprisoned in old Capitol Prison in Wash. D.C.), between 1865 and 1880. Confederate spy

Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, ca. 1860-1865. Creator: Unknown
Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, ca. 1860-1865

The Last Ambush, March 1894. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
The Last Ambush, March 1894

As in Ninety-Three, 548. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
As in Ninety-Three, 548. (1901)

Lockheed U-2C, 1955. Creator: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, used by CIA, NASA, and USAF. This U-2 flew the first operational mission over the USSR on 4 July 1956

Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington, 1862

Lieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart, 1933. Creator: Unknown
Lieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart, 1933. The Prisoner in the Tower. British army officer Lt Norman Baillie-Stewart (1909-1966)

The Captured Spy, 1895, (c1930). Creator: Arthur Melville
The Captured Spy, 1895, (c1930). A man, naked but for a loincloth, prostrates himself before a vizier shaded by a parasol

Have you a precedent of this Commission? I believe not any, c1820. Creator: Unknown
Have you a precedent of this Commission? I believe not any, c1820. Satirical cartoon showing British judge John Scott, Earl of Eldon, holding a telescope and a bag of money

The Execution of Edith Cavell from Petit Journal, pub. November 1915 (colour lithograph). Edith Cavell (1865 - 1915); executed for espionage during World War I;

The SIS Building from across the River Thames, London. Designed by architect Terry Farrell, this building has been the headquarters of MI6 since its completion in 1994

A Spanish spy in camp, Spanish-American War, 1898. Scene showing a captured Spanish spy being brought before two US Army officers

German spy escorted to military prison by the Canadian authorities, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914)

E (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, English novelist, 1937. Oppenheim (1866-1946), specialised in stories of espionage and international intrigue. Cigarette card from the Famous British Authors series

Japanese beheading Chinese functionaries, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. Incident reported by war correspondent in Moukden. Japanese beheading Chinese functionaries suspected of Russian sympathies

Japanese spies being hanged, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
Japanese spies being hanged by Russian military command. Russo-Japanese War 1904-5. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 13 March 1904

Louis Botha receiving intelligence from a native spy, 2nd Boer War, c1900. Louis Botha (1862-1919), South African soldier and statesman, was Commander-in-chief of Boer forces from 1900 during the war

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