Guard Collection

The Order of Release, 1746, 1852-1853. Artist: John Everett Millais
The Order of Release, 1746, 1852-1853. A barefoot Scottish woman with child in arms brings the official document releasing her wounded husband from prison after the failure of the Second Jacobite

The guardian angel, 1897. Private Collection

The Night Watch, 1642. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
The Night Watch, 1642. The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch. Rembrandt van Rhijn (1606-1669). Found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Guardian Angel (after Pietro da Cortona). Artist: Ferri, Ciro (1634-1689)
The Guardian Angel (after Pietro da Cortona). Private Collection

Junker of the Life-Guards Caucasian-Mountain squadron, 1829. Artist: Belousov, Lev Alexandrovich (1806-1864)
Junker of the Life-Guards Caucasian-Mountain squadron, 1829. Private Collection

Courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 19th century. Creator: Francesco Salviati
Courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 19th century

Driving A Cow Before Her, Laura Secord Passed The American Sentries, c1909, (c1920). Artist: Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton
Driving A Cow Before Her, Laura Secord Passed The American Sentries, c1909, (c1920). Laura Secord (1775-1868) Canadian heroine of the War of 1812

Tsar Nicholas II in exile, Tobolsk, Siberia, 13 August 1917. Compelled to abdicate in the wake of the February Revolution, Nicholas and the Royal family were exiled to Siberia

A Railway Revolution, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
A Railway Revolution, 1874. A large lady seeks advice from the Railway guard at St Pancras. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 10, 1874

Naval Militia guarding a N.Y. bridge, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Naval Militia guarding a N.Y. bridge, 1917. Shows members of the New York Naval Militia guarding bridge from German sabotage during World War I.

Red Cross, 1918, 18 May 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Red Cross, 1918, 18 May 1918 (date created or published later). President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) with General George R

English prisoners at work near Doberitz, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
English prisoners at work near Doberitz, between c1914 and c1915. English prisoners of war working in fields near the prisoner of war camp at Do¨beritz (now Dallgow-Do¨beritz)

Germany, English prisoners returning from work to Doberitz, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Germany, English prisoners returning from work to Doberitz, between c1914 and c1915. English prisoners, walking in a road with tools, near a prisoner of war camp at Do¨beritz (now Dallgow-Do¨beritz)

Feu, s'il vous plait, British & French at E´taples, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Feu, s'il vous plait, British & French at E´taples, between 1914 and c1915. British and French soldier lighting a cigarette at E´taples, France during World War I.

Funeral of V.M. Kruchina; at the cemetery., 1917-1923. Creator: Unknown
Funeral of V.M. Kruchina; at the cemetery., 1917-1923. From a collection which contains documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Review of White Guard troops in Tomsk on September 22, 1918. Creator: Unknown
Review of White Guard troops in Tomsk on September 22, 1918. From a collection of unique documentary photographs relating to the Russian Civil War in Siberia

Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, [near Kiappeselga], 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack, [near Kiappeselga], 1915. Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War In the early years of the First World War

Landwehr in trenches near Suwalki, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Landwehr in trenches near Suwalki, between 1914 and c1915. Soldiers in trenches near Suwalki, Poland during World War I.

Poor in North France sleeping in church, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Poor in North France sleeping in church, between 1914 and c1915. Poor people with a soldier, sleeping in a church in France, during World War I.

Guard at Eiffel Tower, Wireless Station, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Guard at Eiffel Tower, Wireless Station, between c1914 and c1915. A guard at the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France during World War I.

A Guardroom, 1616-1673. Creator: Anthonie Palamedesz
A Guardroom, 1616-1673

Venetie: On ne passe pas! -Menteur!, 1866. Creator: Cham
Venetie: On ne passe pas! -Menteur!, 1866. Series: Actualites; Periodical: Le Charivari, Monday, 2 July 1866. Venetie: They shall not pass! - Liar!

Tiens...Voilà Françoise qu'est passée à la Guarde!...-Dam, elle a pour ça, assez servi... 1860. Creator: Cham
Tiens...Voila Francoise qu'est passee a la Guarde!...-Dam, elle a pour ca, assez servi dans la ligne..1860. Series: Actualites; Periodical: Le Charivari, Friday, 18 May 1860. Look

Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Suisse du Roy, between circa 1678 and circa 1693. Creator: Nicolas Bonnart
Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Suisse du Roy, between circa 1678 and circa 1693

The Attack at Dawn, 1877. Creator: Alphonse de Neuville
The Attack at Dawn, 1877. The scene is a French town in the Jura region, near the Swiss border. As a bugler sounds the alarm

In the Trenches, 1874. Creator: Alphonse de Neuville
In the Trenches, 1874. Members of the Garde Mobile (French expeditionary forces) are huddled in a shallow trench during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71

Pike Bearer, Facing Right, 1583. Creator: Hendrik Goltzius
Pike Bearer, Facing Right, 1583

Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Garde du Corps du Roy, Bound 1703-1704. Creator: Henri Bonnart
Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Garde du Corps du Roy, Bound 1703-1704

Iwami Jutaro, between c1867 and c1868. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Iwami Jutaro, between c1867 and c1868

Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 2 (Himavanta Forest), 1920-1940. Creator: Unknown
Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 2 (Himavanta Forest), 1920-1940

The Grand Chapter of the Star of India at Calcutta: the Prince of Wales...1876. Creator: Unknown
The Grand Chapter of the Star of India at Calcutta: the Prince of Wales passing from his tent to the Grand Chapter Tent, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876

Pinochle: Guards at the Walters Art Gallery, 1953. Creator: Walter Chatelaine
Pinochle: Guards at the Walters Art Gallery, 1953

Altarpiece with the Passion of Christ: Christ before High Priest, c1480-1495. Creator: Unknown
Altarpiece with the Passion of Christ: Christ before High Priest, c1480-1495. The Passion of Christ was a popular theme for 15th-century altarpieces in northern Europe

The Guard Room, c1642. Creator: David Teniers II
The Guard Room, c1642. In the 1640s, at the end of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) pitting Protestants against Catholics, military life was a popular subject for art

The Petition to the Doge, 1860. Creator: Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker
The Petition to the Doge, 1860. A doge, standing in a palace doorway, is confronted by a petitioner; a lady in black, who, kneeling on the pavement, holds her young daughter before her

Guards Subdue the Prisoner Yoshizo after His Attempted Jailbreak, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Guards Subdue the Prisoner Yoshizo after His Attempted Jailbreak, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 525

Illustration of Various Subjects, 1779. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration of Various Subjects, 1779

Plate 10 for J.G. Muller's Siegfried von Lindenberg, 1783. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Plate 10 for J.G. Muller's Siegfried von Lindenberg, 1783

C'est une horreur! Je suis fonctionnaire Danois! --Plaignez vous donc! Nous faisons notre... 1864. Creator: Cham
C'est une horreur! Je suis fonctionnaire Danois! --Plaignez vous donc! Nous faisons notre possible pour vous faire avancer, 1864

Kinokuni Hill and Distant View of Akasaka Tameike, 1857. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Kinokuni Hill and Distant View of Akasaka Tameike, 1857. Part of the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, no. 085, part 3: Autumn

La gauche du front allie; Une sentinelle de l'yser, 1917. Creator: Unknown
La gauche du front allie; Une sentinelle de l'yser, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Endo Musha Morito Approaching Kesa's Bedroom, Published in 1883. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Endo Musha Morito Approaching Kesa's Bedroom, Published in 1883. From Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage

Count William III of Holland Permitting the Beheading of His Bailiff, 1607. Creator: Willem van Swanenburg
Count William III of Holland Permitting the Beheading of His Bailiff, 1607. From Thronus Justitiae, pl. 7

Akamatsu Jutamaru Takanori and the Ghost of Yaegakehime, 19th century. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Akamatsu Jutamaru Takanori and the Ghost of Yaegakehime, 19th century. From Beauty and Valor in the Novel Suikoden

Lord Yoritomo Traveling to Kyoto in the First Year of Kenkyu Period (circa 1285) (image 3 of 3), 1862

Lord Yoritomo Traveling to Kyoto in the First Year of Kenkyu Period (circa 1285) (image 1 of 3), 1862

The shooters meal in the Voetboogdoelen in Amsterdam in celebration of the conclusion... 1779. Creator: Jacob Cats
The shooters meal in the Voetboogdoelen in Amsterdam in celebration of the conclusion of the peace of Munster, 18 June 1648, 1779

The Night Watch, 1779. Creators: Jacob Cats, Gerrit Lundens
The Night Watch, 1779. The corporalship of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the Night Watch

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