Horn Collection (page 8)

Lid of an unguent jar in the form of an ibex, from Tutankhamuns tomb, 14th century BC. Eyes inlaid with bronze and glass-pasteroyal cartouche

Musician and Sapper of the Grenadiers-a-Pied, 1859. Artist: Auguste Raffet
Musician and Sapper of the Grenadiers-a-Pied, 1859. A depiction of French Military attire from the book Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale, by Eugene Fieffe, 1859

Good and Evil, 19th century. Artist: Andre Jacques Victor Orsel
Good and Evil, 19th century. The rewards women might expect as a result of their conduct. Christ sits in judgment (top), sorting the blessed on his right from the damned on his left

Youth in a Masquerade Costume, 1506-1507. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Youth in a Masquerade Costume, 1506-1507. Found at the Royal Library, Windsoe Castle, Windsor, England

Roland breaks his sword and sounds his horn, stained glass, Chartres Cathedral, France, 1194-1260. Detail from the Charlemagne window

Painting, unknown title, 17th century. Artist: Baldassare Franceschini
Painting, unknown title, 17th century

Thomas Alva Edisons kinetographic theatre, c1892. This combined the recording of sound and vision. From a cigarette card published 1915

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878. In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. Instrument in recording mode

Sword bearing name of Suleyman the Magnificent, 16th century. Ottoman Period, Steel Sword with horn hilt. At Islamic Museum, Cairo

Centaurs pulling a cart

Viking Cross-Shaft Fragment from Sockburn, County Durham, 10th century. Horseman with Bird are Odin and the Raven and below Valkeyrie offers Horn to Hero in Valhalla (possibly)

Detail of a bull sacrfice from a Cretan sarcophagus, 16th century BC
Detail of a bull sacrfice from a Cretan sarcophagus, found at Aghia Triada near Phaestos, 16th century BC

The Alpenhorn at Gonergat above Zermatt, with the Matterhorn behind, in the Swiss Alps

Italian earthenware plate showing the satyr family after Durer
Depiction of the satyr family after Durer, from Casa Pirota, faenza, Italy. From the British Museums collection

Bronze Roman household god
A bronze Roman household god (Lar), from the British Museums collection

The Ram in a Thicket, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC
Detail of the Ram in a Thicket, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. One of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the Great Death Pit

Mummified bull, from Thebes, Egypt, Roman Period, after 30 BC. Bulls were sacred to several gods through which they issued oracles. From the British Museums Collection

Detail of the Heimdall Cross-Slab on the Isle of Man, 10th century
Detail of the Heimdall Cross-Slab at Jurby on the Isle of Man. It depicits Heimdall blowing his horn to call the gods to Ragnarok, 10th century

Detail from a Spanish frieze showing a man with a horn, from a temple in Seville. Now at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid

Scythian plaque showing two men drinking from a horn, 4th century BC
Scythian gold plaque showing two men drinking from a horn, probably as part of a blood-brother rite. From Kul Oba in South Russia, now in the Hermitage Museums collection in St Petersburg

Egyptian painting on a wooden shabti box of the deceased worshipping Hathor as a cow with solar disks with in its horns

Queens Lyre from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. Stringed instrument with a bulls head. The front panels are made of lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone originally set in bitumen

Detail of man with captive on Gallehus Horn, Danish

Detail of Horned figure on Gallehus Horn, Denmark

Unicorn, 1644. From Handelene van de Natuere, a Dutch translation of Natural History by Pliny the Elder (23-79), the Roman writer on natural history who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that

Deer hunt, 15th century. Artist: Workshop of the Bedford Breviary
Deer hunt, 15th century. Hounds and mounted huntsmen blowing horns, chase a stag through a forest. In the left foreground hunt servants prepare to release more hounds

Deer hunt, 15th century. Hounds and mounted huntsmen blowing horns, chasing a stag through a forest. From Le Livre de la Chasse (Book of the Hunt) of Gaston III Phoebus, Comte de Foix

Neolithic implements of stone, flint and horn, c1890. A range of tools and weapons including axes, hammers, knives and arrowheads

Hannibal crossing the Alps, 218 BC (early 20th century). During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army, including elephants

Praise of Academiciens of the Royal Academy of Science... 1728. Artist: Bernard Picart
Praises of Academiciens of the Royal Academy of Science, Dead since the year 1699, 1728. A print from Oeuvres Diverses, La Haye, Gosse & Neaulme, Volume III, 1728-1729

The horns of consecration and the procession corridor at Knossos, 18th century BC
The horns of consecration (Labrys) and the procession corridor at the Minoan Royal Palace of Knossos, 18th century BC

The Boeuf Gras for Paris, 1871. Peace, dressed in deepest mourning, leads a prime specimen of cattle to France. The leash is made of olive leaves

Taking the (Irish) Bull by the Horns, 1870. Artist: Joseph Swain
Taking the (Irish) Bull by the Horns, 1870. Mr Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister, takes the Irish bull by the horns. The particular issue illustrated by this cartoon is the Irish Land Bill which

Trumpeter Walt Fowler, 2017. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Trumpeter Walt Fowler, Steve Gadd Band, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 2017

Steels (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria German, 1539
Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508-50), German, Munich, dated 1539

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin), crossbow, German, probably Dresden
Crossbow (Halbe Rustung) with Winder (Cranequin), crossbow, German, probably Dresden; winder, possibly German, crossbow, ca. 1720-30; winder, ca. 1575-1600

Crossbow of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, Central or Eastern European
Crossbow of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (reigned 1458-1490), Central or Eastern European, possibly Vienna, dated 1489

Plate 20: a soldier in profile galloping to the right holding a lance in his right hand, followed by another horseman behind, from Various figures and doodles (Diverses figures et griffonnemens), ca

Boy with a Trumpet, ca. 1507. Creator: Lucas van Leyden
Boy with a Trumpet, ca. 1507

Lithographic Plates, 1850. Creator: Alexandre DesireCollette
Lithographic Plates, 1850. [J.H. Maury, Laureat du Concours de 1849. Eleve de Mr Meifred, Professeur au Conservatoire]

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