Fighting Collection

Death of Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur) at the Battle of Shrewsbury, 21 July 1403, (c1860). Together with his uncle, Thomas Percy

The Athlete Wrestling with a Python, c1880-1882. Artist: A Gilbert
The Athlete Wrestling with a Python, c1880-1882. Etching of the sculpture by Sir Frederic Leighton. A print from Modern Artists, prepared under the direction of FG Dumas, JS Virtue and Co, London

The second fight between Harry Paulson and Tom Paddock, 1851 (late 19th or early 20th century). Artist: Pugnis
The second fight between Harry Paulson and Tom Paddock, 1851 (late 19th or early 20th century). An illustration from Famous Fights

The Gordon Highlanders. How Piper Findlater won the V. C. at Dargai, 1897, (1939)
The Gordon Highlanders. How Piper Findlater won the V.C. at Dargai, 1897, (1939). The Storming of the Dargai Heights by the 1st Gordon Highlanders and the Gurkhas, 1897

The Battle of San Romano, c1438, (1909). Artist: Paolo Uccello
The Battle of San Romano, c1438, (1909). Painting held at The National Gallery, London. From The National Gallery, Vol. One [T. C. & E. C. Jack, London and Edinburgh, 1909]

Quarreling and scuffling in a womens bathhouse, Japan. Artist: Yoshiiku
Quarreling and scuffling in a womens bathhouse, Japan

The Speedy and El Gamo, c1802. Artist: Nicholas Pocock
The Speedy and El Gamo, c1802. Commanded by Lord Cochrane (1775-1860), the British brig HMS Speedy captured the much larger Spanish frigate Gamo off Barcelona on 6 May 1801

Death to World Imperialism, poster, 1919. Artist: Dmitriy Stakhievich Moor
Death to World Imperialism, poster, 1919. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789. Creator: John Trumbull
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789

Boxing, early 19th century, (1941). Creator: Henry Thomas Alken
Boxing, early 19th century, (1941). Bare-knuckle fighting. Illustration which originally appeared in " The National Sports of Great Britain" illustrated by Henry Alken. (London, 1821)

The Battle of San Romano, 1432 (c1435-1440). Artist: Paolo Uccello
The Battle of San Romano, 1432 (c1435-1440). The Battle of San Romano was fought between the armies of Siena and Florence

The Battle of Naseby, 1645, 1727, (1944). Creator: Dupuis
The Battle of Naseby, 1645, 1727, (1944). The victory at Naseby of the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Fairfax and Cromwell over the Royalist army commanded by Prince Rupert marked the decisive

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588. Creator: Hendrik Goltzius
The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588

Lochiels Charge at Killycrankie, 27 July 1689, (c1880). The Battle of Killiecrankie was fought between Highland Scottish clans supporting King James II and VII

Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815 (1888). Artist: John Atkinson II
Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815 (1888). The Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), British Commander, with his staff, doffing his hat to another officer as the battle rages around them

Prince Henry, Hotspur and Falstaff (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4), first published 1796; reissued 1852

A Cribbage Party in St. Giless Disturbed By A Press Gang, October 26, 1787

Krishna Subduing Kaliya, the Snake Demon: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series, ca. 1785. Krishna battles Kaliya, a hundred-headed serpent (naga) who was poisoning the river Yamuna

Heracles fighting the Nemean lion, Attic black-figure amphora from Vulci

Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, 1782 (c1783). General Sir George Eliott is on horseback pointing to the battle between the British and the Spanish land and sea forces

Battle of Quatre Bras, 1815 (1906). Artist: Vereker Monteith Hamilton
Battle of Quatre Bras, 1815 (1906). British infantry fighting off an attack by French cavalry at the battle fought two days before Waterloo. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, Vol. V

The Battle of Texel, 1673 (c1920). Artist: Eugene Louis Gabriel Isabey
The Battle of Texel, 1673 (c1920). In 1653, the Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp was killed in a battle with the English navy off the coast of Texel, Holland

The Battle of Towton, 29 March 1461, (c1920). The Battle of Towton (1461) took place near Towton in Yorkshire and was one of the bloodiest ever battles fought in Britain

The Battle of Drumclog, 1679 (19th century). Artist: George Harvey
The Battle of Drumclog, 19th century. The Battle of Drumclog was fought on 1 June 1679, between a group of Covenanters and the forces of John Graham of Claverhouse, at High Drumclog

Performing bear in a Russian village, 1877. A print from The Illustrated London News, (19 May 1877). Hand-coloured later

The Silver Age, 1527. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Silver Age, 1527. Aportrayal of the second of the four Ages of the World from Ovids poem. Found in the collection of the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Sakata Kintoki Wrestling with a Tengu, c. 1715 / 18. Creator: Torii Kiyomasu I
Sakata Kintoki Wrestling with a Tengu, c. 1715/18

East View of Brighton from Kemp Town, 1835. Creator: Dean Wolstenholme
East View of Brighton from Kemp Town, 1835. Antique engraving by Dean Wolstenholme Junior after Thomas Henwood. From " The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex

Billingsgate Fish Market, 1808, (1944). Creators: Thomas Rowlandson, Augustus Charles Pugin
Billingsgate Fish Market, 1808, (1944). View of the old open-air fish market on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London. Fresh fish was landed and sold directly on the dockside

Tom Cribbs second battle with Molineaux, 1811 (late 19th or early 20th century). An illustration from Famous Fights. English boxer Tom Cribb (1781-1848)

He caught Tom a smack under the chin, late 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Pugnis
He caught Tom a smack under the chin, late 19th or early 20th century. An illustration from Famous Fights

Caught him with both arms round the waist, and threw him on the stage, c1890-c1909(?). Artist: Pugnis
Caught him with both arms round the waist, and threw him on the stage, c1890-c1909(?). An illustration from Famous Fights

The seizure of Roger de Mortimer (1287-1330) at Nottingham Castle, 19th century. Artist: Noel Paton
The seizure of Roger de Mortimer (1287-1330) at Nottingham Castle, 19th century. Roger de Mortimer was arrested by order of King Edward III in October 1330

Greek vase painting depicting Cadmus fighting the serpent, 4th century BC
Greek vase painting depicting Cadmus fighting the serpent before founding Thebes. Made in Paetum, a Greek city in Italy, 4th century BC

Crescent Regt. of New Orleans in the "Hornets Nest", 1887
Crescent Regt. of New Orleans in the " Hornets Nest", 1887. Albumen print, stereo, from the series " The Chicago Panorama of the [1862] Battle of Shiloh"

Boxing Match For 200 Guineas, Betwixt Dutch Sam and Medley, Fought 31 May 1810, on Moulsey Hurst Near Hampton, June 5, 1810

Juan Martin Diez El Empecinado (the Undaunted) defeats a column of French soldiers in the Battle of Retortillo, Spanish War of Independence 1808-1813

There Was A Hand-To-Hand Struggle, 1902. Artist: WR Wollen
There Was A Hand-To-Hand Struggle, 1902. In the aftermath of their victory at the Battle of Isandlwana, the Zulus mounted an attack on the British border post at Rorkes Drift

Black Joke engaging the Spanish Slave Brig El Almirante, 1 February 1829, 1830. Artist: Edward Duncan
Black Joke engaging the Spanish Slave Brig El Almirante in the Bight of Benin, 1 February 1829, 1830. Commanded by Lieutenant Henry Downes

Battle of Bakers Creek, Mississippi, American Civil War, 16 May 1863. Defeat of the Confederate troops under Lieutenant-General John C Pemberton by Indiana troops under General McGinnis

Battle at the Porte St Denis, 28th July, 1830, Paris. Artist: Hippolyte Lecomte
Battle at the Porte St Denis, 28th July, 1830, Paris. Fighting between the people and royalist troops during the French Revolution of July 1830. From the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

The Archangel Michael and his angels fighting the dragon, 1865-1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
The Archangel Michael and his angels fighting the dragon, 1865-1866. The Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus in her arms looks down from Heaven. From Gustave Dores Bible (Revelation 12:1)

Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Lower Twenty", 1864. Creator: Unknown
Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Lower Twenty", 1864. Crowds at a polling station on 8 November, '...the day of the Presidential election

The War in Schleswig: the Battle of Over-Selk - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Schleswig: the Battle of Over-Selk - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The Battle of Konigshugel, also known as the Battle of Ober-Selk

The fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, 1864. American Civil War - sea battle off Cherbourg on 19th June, from a sketch by Robert Lancaster, the owner of the yacht Deerhound

The Japanese Army occupied Vragaeschensk, 1919. Creator: Unknown
The Japanese Army occupied Vragaeschensk, 1919. The Japanese army marching through Blagoveshchensk, Russia, with airplanes overhead.

The Japanese army occupied Habalofsk [i.e.Khabarovsk], Amur Fleet surrendered, c1919. Creator: Unknown
The Japanese army occupied Habalofsk [i.e.Khabarovsk], Amur Fleet surrendered, c1919.

Fighting between the cavalry and the war ships - The latter surrendered, 1919. Creator: Unknown
Fighting between the cavalry and the war ships - The latter surrendered, 1919. Japanese cavalry fighting Russian warships.

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