Fear Collection (page 7)

Recall the Day of the Red Army, (Okna Rosta), 1920. Artist: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Recall the Day of the Red Army, (Okna Rosta), 1920

The Abduction of Rebecca, 1858. Artist: Eugene Delacroix
The Abduction of Rebecca, 1858. Scene from Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris

The Infernal Machine, 24 December 1800, (19th century?). The most serious - and very nearly successful - attempt on Napoleon Bonapartes (1769-1821)

Christ Appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way, 1601-1602. Artist: Annibale Carracci
Christ Appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way, 1601-1602. The legend is that during Neros persecution of the Christians St Peter fled from Rome

Armenians have their throats cut at Ak-Hissar, 1895. Armenians suffer bloody attacks at Akhisar in Turkey. Scene from the Massacres of Armenia card series produced by the chocolate factory at

Pillage of Trebizond, 8 October 1895. Carnage in Trebizond or Trabzon, Turkey. Scene from the Massacres of Armenia card series produced by the chocolate factory at the Monastery of Aiguebelle

Massacres of Heraklion (Crete), 1895. Eurocentric portrayal of historical events - scene from the Massacres of Armenia card series produced by the chocolate factory at the Monastery of Aiguebelle

The Agony in the Garden, 1527-1530. Artist: Pieter Coecke van Aelst
The Agony in the Garden, 1527-1530. In the garden of Gethsemane Christ kneels and raises his eyes towards the chalice standing on the outcrop of rock, which symbolises the chalice of fate

Ecstasy of Saint Francis of Paula, 18th century. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Ecstasy of Saint Francis of Paula, 18th century. St Francis of Paula (1416-1507) was the founder of the Order of Minims. From the Church San Benedetto, Venice, Italy

Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1735. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1735. Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting, watches the preparations for the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, that she has demanded

Woman with a Child Afraid of a Dog, 17th century. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Woman with a Child Afraid of a Dog, 17th century. From the Museum of Fine Art, Budapest

Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

Autant de pris de l ennemi, Franco-Prussian War, 1870 (1872). Artist: Auguste Bry
Autant de pris de l ennemi, Franco-Prussian War, 1870 (1872). French peasants stampeding their livestock rather than let them fall into enemy hands. From a private collection

Scene from Don Juan, ou le Festin de Pierre, 1665, (18th century). Artist: Laurent Cars
Scene from Don Juan, ou le Festin de Pierre, 1665, (18th century). Don Juan is speaking to the stone statue of the Commander whom he killed when the old man challenged the Don who had seduced his

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, 1880. Jacquard (1752-1834), inventor of the punched card loom being attacked by the silk weavers of Lyon who were afraid his invention would put them out of

French physicist Denis Papins, steamboat being wrecked, 1707 (1870)
French physicist Denis Papin s, steamboat being wrecked, 1707 (1870). The boatmen on the river Weser saw the boat powered by Papins (1647-1712)

An Allarm to Europe By a Late Prodigious Comet, 1680. Title page of pamphlet by John Hill on the comet of December 1680 (Kirch)

Eruption of Shirane-san and earthquake at Edo (Tokyo), Japan, 1650. After an engraving published in Amsterdam, 1669

Ivory panel showing the stoning of St Paul, 4th century
Ivory panel showing the stoning of St Paul, from a casket. Possibly from Rome, from the British Museums collection, 4th century

Ivan the Terrible and the Ghosts of His Victims, 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Mikhail Petrovich Klodt
Ivan the Terrible and the Ghosts of His Victims, 19th or early 20th century. Ivan IV, Grand Prince of Moscow (1530-1584), became the first Tsar of Russia in 1547

Mexican pottery figure of a squatting man, 4th century
Mexican pottery figure of a squatting man, from the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, 4th century

Esther in the presence of Ahasuerus, 1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
Esther in the presence of Ahasuerus, 1866. Esther (Haddash or Hadassah) coming into the presence of King Ahasuerus fainting in fear as she expects to die if it is discovered that she is a Jew

Hell: the city of Dis, Roman god of the underworld, 1863. Artist: Gustave Dore
Hell: the city of Dis, Roman god of the underworld, 1863. Dante and Virgil observing sinners burning in Hell. From Inferno, first part of Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri

The Dead Drummer, 1840. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Dead Drummer, 1840. A legend of Salisbury Plain. From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Barham). (London, 1840)

Elijah goes into wilderness and asks to die, but an angel comes and bids him arise and eat, 1866. From the Bible (1 Kings 19.5)

Diana and Actaeon, 1732. Artist: Louis Galloche
Diana and Actaeon, 1732. According to Greek myth, Actaeon was transformed into a deer, and mistakenly killed by his lover Diana (Artemis in Greek mythology), goddess of the hunt

The Resurrection, c1890. Artist: James Tissot
The Resurrection, c1890. Christ rising from the tomb after the Angel of the Lord has rolled away the stone. His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow

Dante and Virgil looking down upon souls in torment in the inferno, 1863. Artist: Gustave Dore
Dante and Virgil looking down upon souls in torment in the inferno, 1863. Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a great admirer of Virgil, and in his Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy)

Conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus, 1865-1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
Conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus, 1865-1866. From Gustave Dores Bible (Acts 9)

February - Cutting Weather, 1839. Artist: George Cruikshank
February - Cutting Weather, 1839. A typical day at Dr Swishtails Academy. Boys at their desks look on as the schoolmaster punishes a boy by flogging him with the birch

Scene from Shakespeares Hamlet, 19th century. Hamlet seeing his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle (Act 1 Scene 5)

Victims of the Terror, French Revolution, 1794. The last victims of the Reign of Terror being taken to the guillotine in a tumbril

Christopher Columbus, faced with mutiny on his voyage to America, 1492 (early 20th century)

Witch hunting in America, 18th century (19th century). An old woman being arrested

Battle of Tonkin, Franco-Chinese War, 20th century

Angel of the Lord appearing to Elijah on the mountain, 1804
Angel of the Lord appearing to Elijah on the mountain and telling him not to be afraid and to go down to the king, 1804. Bible II Kings I:15

The capture of Toure Samory by Lieutenant Jacquin near Guelemou in 1898. Artist: Henri Meyer
The capture of Toure Samory by Lieutenant Jacquin near Guelemou in 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 30th October 1898

Cyclone in Mayotte, 1898. Artist: F Meaulle
Cyclone in Mayotte, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 27th March 1898

Universal Suffrage, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
Universal Suffrage, 1893. Universal suffrage (also general suffrage or common suffrage) consists of the extension of the right to vote to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief

The Wounded Cuirassier, 1893. Artist: Theodore Gericault
The Wounded Cuirassier, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 14th January 1893

Bomb explosion in the Liceo Theatre, Barcelona, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 25th November 1893

Environmental pollution, 1895. Pollution caused by heavy chemical industry, with birds and fishes struggling to survive. In the late 19th century industrial pollution was a growing problem

Untitled, c1864-1900. Artist: Mihaly Munkacsy
Untitled, c1864-1900

Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, exhibited 1812. Artist: Henry Fuseli
Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, exhibited 1812. Found in the collection of the Tate, London

Riddle of Fear, 1819-1823. Artist: Francisco Goya
Riddle of Fear, 1819-1823. Plate 2 of Proverbs, published in 1864. The series also known as disparates (absurdities) or suenos (dreams) is seen as symbolic of the absurdity of the human condition

Dante and Virgil looking into the inferno, 1863. Artist: Gustave Dore
Dante and Virgil looking into the inferno, 1863. Dante, keeping close to his guide Virgil, looks down at one of the sinners burning in hell in their open tombs

Astrologue, late 19th / early 20th century. Artist: Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Astrologue, late 19th/early 20th century. From the Musee d Arts et d Archeologie, Moulins, France

The Death of Sapphira, 1652. Artist: Nicolas Poussin
The Death of Sapphira, 1652. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris

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