Frightening Collection (page 5)

Figure 62: Terror, semiprofile, 1854-56, printed 1862. Creators: Duchenne de Boulogne
Figure 62: Terror, semiprofile, 1854-56, printed 1862

Amputation, February 17, 1786. February 17, 1786. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Amputation, February 17, 1786

Lodging at M Queens (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second), June 20, 1786

Horror, January 1, 1800. January 1, 1800. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Horror, January 1, 1800

The Dead Alive!, July 1795. July 1795. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Dead Alive!, July 1795

The New Property Tax Paying His Respects To John Bull, April 16, 1806. April 16, 1806
The New Property Tax Paying His Respects To John Bull, April 16, 1806

Death and the Miser, December 20, 1801. December 20, 1801. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Death and the Miser, December 20, 1801

Landscape with rushing stream and a couple on the bank, frightened by a snake, 1775-1827

Story of Golden Locks, ca. 1870. Creator: Seymour Joseph Guy
Story of Golden Locks, ca. 1870

Christ Asleep during the Tempest, ca. 1853. Creator: Eugene Delacroix
Christ Asleep during the Tempest, ca. 1853

The Nursery, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
The Nursery, 1833. John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford; Sir Francis Burdett; William Cobbett; John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer. British politians depicted as crying children

The destruction of Achan and his children in the valley of Achor, 19th century. Creator
The destruction of Achan and his children in the valley of Achor, 19th century. Biblical scene, from Joshua 7: 24: And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver

Her ghastly face and blood-stained garments... 1919. Creator: Unknown
Her ghastly face and blood-stained garments struck terror to the souls of the petrified spectators, 1919....the brides sumptuously lacquered kago appeared, surrounded by a numerous retinue

Lord Cornwallis receiving the Sons of Tippoo Saib, (c1780s), 1816. Creator: Unknown
Lord Cornwallis receiving the Sons of Tippoo Saib, (c1780s), 1816. Charles Cornwallis, (1738-1805) British Army general and official, appointed Governor-General and of India

Twenty elephants in the flames, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Twenty elephants in the flames, 1932. Vingt Elephants dans les Flammes. A fire at a menagerie in Antwerp, Belgium. Front cover of " L Illustre du Petit Journal". [France, 1932]

An appalling cataclysm, 1932. Creator: Unknown
An appalling cataclysm, 1932. Un Epouvantable Cataclysme. Buildings are torn apart and people are killed and injured during the destruction of Saint-Denis de la Reunion

A volcano erupts in Martinique, 1929. Creator: Unknown
A volcano erupts in Martinique, 1929. Un Volcan Se Reveille A La Martinique. People grab belongings and flee as smoke and lava spew out of a volcano

Christian at Mount Sinai, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Christian at Mount Sinai, c1910. Scene from " The Pilgrims Progress", by John Bunyan. Glass lantern slide produced by the Church Army Lantern Department which in 1905 had approximately 100

Battle of Cunaxa, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Battle of Cunaxa, 1890. The Battle of Cunaxa, 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his brother Arsaces, (Artaxerxes II). Cyrus charged his brothers bodyguard and was killed by a javelin

In Memoriam - The Relief of Lucknow, 1858, (1901). Creator: Unknown
In Memoriam - The Relief of Lucknow, 1858, (1901). The siege of Lucknow was one of the major engagements of the uprising against British rule in India which began in 1857

Men in a boat threatened by a sea monster, early-mid 18th century, (1924). Creator
Men in a boat threatened by a sea monster, early-mid 18th century, (1924). From the " Shinsen O Uchiwa" (Old and New Ghost Stories), attribited to Okumura Masanobu

The Sack of Louvain, (1919). Creator: Unknown
The Sack of Louvain, (1919). Scene from the First World War: the town of Louvain in Belgium was attacked by German soldiers in August 1914

Scene from Hamlet, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Scene from " Hamlet", 19th century. Act 1 Scene 5 from " Hamlet" by William Shakespeare: the ghost of his father appears to Hamlet and says Adieu Adieu Adieu! remember me

An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris, c1849. Creator: George Cruikshank
An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris - Mourir pour la Patrie, c1849. Humorous scene: shocked and terrified English diners are interrupted at dinner

Desolation des Peruviens pendant L Eclipse de Lune, 1723. Creator: Bernard Picart
Desolation des Peruviens pendant L Eclipse de Lune, 1723. Desolation of the Peruvians during the lunar eclipse. From " Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde"

John Gilpins horse is alarmed by a donkey, 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott
John Gilpins horse is alarmed by a donkey, 1878, (c1918). John Gilpin, newly hatted and wigged thanks to his friend, is about to set off again when a braying donkey frightens his horse

John Gilpins horse splashes mud on a womans dress, 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott
John Gilpins horse splashes mud on a womans dress, 1878, (c1918). John Gilpin was the subject of a comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper entitled " The Diverting History of John Gilpin"

Moses and the Burning Bush. Creator: N v d Linden
Moses and the Burning Bush. Scene from the Old Testament

The Dragon of the Apocalyps. Creator: P Masson
The Dragon of the Apocalyps. A fearful king and his subjects cower before a fire-breathing dragon, as angels empty basins over the landscape

Woman being frightened by a mouse, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Woman being frightened by a mouse, c1950. Birthday card design. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Disturbed: A Plover Rising from Its Nest, 1879, (c1902). Creator: Unknown
Disturbed: A Plover Rising from Its Nest, 1879, (c1902). After a painting in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. A bird is startled and breaks cover in the early spring twilight

Cupid frightening other children, c1757, (1928). Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Cupid frightening other children, c1757, (1928). Cupid with a cloth over his head frightening other children, pen with wash on white paper

Pirates of the Mediterranean Playing at Dice for Prisoners. c1869. Artist: W Ridgway
Pirates of the Mediterranean Playing at Dice for Prisoners. c1869. 19th century imagining of a 16th century scene

Bell to warn of gas attack, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

An Episode of the White Terror, 1815, (1896). General Count Jacques Laurent Gilly in hiding in a peasants house near Anduze in the South of France

Children drawing water from the Aldgate pump, London, August 1908. One boy pumps while the other holds a cup under the water outlet. To the left is a street fire alarm, with a bank behind

Street fire alarm, Southwark, London, 1932. Box with a telephone from which the fire brigade could be called. These boxes would have had keys to deter hoax callers

Le Francois a Londres, 1770. Artist: C White
Le Francois a Londres, 1770. A butcher, with doubled fists, menaces a French dandy, who holds up his hands in alarm, while one of two women behind him holds his pigtail

The Overdrove ox, 1790. A scene on London Bridge; on the right the Greenwich to Blackheath Machine has overturned; frightened citizens are fleeing from a bull

Blowing up the Pic Nic s; or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets... 1802
Blowing up the Pic Nic s; or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets. Vide Tottenham Street Pantomime, 1802. Richard Sheridan leading the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic

The Combat, scene from the English Civil War, c1849-c1866

Mackerel seller, Cries of London, 1760. Artist: Paul Sandby
Mackerel seller, 1760. A mackerel seller with a large basket, crying her wares, or possibly shouting at the person in the doorway. Her dog barks at a cat who has raised its fur

Exeter Change, 1817. Artist: Henry Meyer
Exeter Change, 1817. Shows tigers in a cage, probably in crosss menagerie, which was housed in Exeter Change, Westminster, London. A boy is holding up a small child at the cage

Brougham and the Civic Giants, 1848. Lord Brougham and Vaux, with fists doubled, threatens Gog and Magog, who express alarm. The subject refers to a verbal attack by Lord Brougham and Vaux on the city

Miseries of human life, Smithfield Market, London, c1800
Miseries of human life, London, c1800; a citizen in Smithfield Market finds himself between two enraged bulls, while alarmed drovers shout

Monster soup commonly called Thames water... 1828. Artist: Thomas McLean
Monster soup commonly called Thames water, being a correct representation of that precious stuff doled out to us!!!, 1828; showing an ugly woman holding a spy glass which touches the circumference of

The great general frightened by Don-Key, 1830. Artist: Henry Heath
The great general frightened by Don-Key, 1830; shows the Duke of Wellington running in alarm, from a donkey in mayoral cloak (Sir John Key)

Mansion House Monitor, 1809. Cits guzzling at a Mansion House dinner are terrified by the appearance of the ghost of Henry Fitzailwin, first Lord Mayor of London

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