Mortar Collection (page 2)

Mortar, 4500-3000 BC. Artist: Prehistoric Russian Culture
Mortar, 4500-3000 BC. Found in the collection of Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis

The Mortar Battery at Woolwich, 1847 (1909). Artist: Charles Hunt
The Mortar Battery at Woolwich, 1847 (1909). After Thomas Jones (1742-1803). From British Military Prints, by Ralph Nevill. [The Connoisseur, London, 1909]

Detail of parge work, office and residence of Frederick Sterner, New York, 1922. Frederick Sterner (1862-1931) was a British-born American architect. From The Architectural Forum Volume XXXVII

Studies of Mortars, One Firing from a Boat, and of Canon, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Studies of Mortars, One Firing from a Boat, and of Canon, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Crushing Herbs in a Mortar, 1947. Originally from Hortus Sanitatis, 1491. Reproduced in British Herbs and Vegetables, by George M. Taylor [Collins, London, 1947]

Mortars in the trenches, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Mortars in the trenches, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Builders outside Moscow, Russia, c1890. Artist: Gillot
Builders outside Moscow, Russia, c1890. Illustration from Russie Costumes et Coutumes, (a work on Russian dress and customs), by L Boulanger, (Paris, c1890)

370 Mortar in Action, 1918, (1926). Artist: Henry Cheffer
370 Mortar in Action, 1918, (1926). French artillerymen operating a large mortar. Mortars are muzzle-loaded weapons that fire shells at a lower velocity

French 270 heavy artillery mortar, Artois, France, World War I, 1915. Mortars were regarded as more effective than conventional artillery during the First World War because the high trajectory of

Austrian mortar, World War I, 1915. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

German mortar at the front, Predeal, Romania, World War I, 1916. Romania entered the war on the allied side in August 1916. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

Casting a mortar at Grissells Regents Canal Ironworks, City Road, London, 1855. A Nasmyth safety ladle (invented 1838) is being used. From The Illustrated London News, December 29 1855

A Sub-Lime Character, early 19th century. A building labourer carrying a hod of mortar

The New Works at the Siege of Sebastapol... Crimean War, 1853-1856. Artist: William Simpson
The New Works at the Siege of Sebastapol. Mortar battery on right of Jordans battery, Crimean War 1853-1856. From Illustrations of the War in the East by William Simpson. (London, 1855-1856)

Patisserie, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

A Hot Day in the Batteries, Crimean War, 1853-1856. Scene from the siege of Sebastopol, October 1854 to September 1855, showing one of the Allies batteries besieging the town

Drawings of ship gun carriages.. Left, Traversing Carronade carriage. Carronade, short piece of naval ordnance with large calibre chamber, like a mortar

Ship cannon on gun carriage, Wood engraving, 1884
Ship cannon on gun carriage, showing gun-tackle, blocks and pulleys fixed to sides of gun-carriage and to side of ship, by means of which gun is run up to, or drawn back from porthole

Ship cannon on gun carriage. Woodcut, 1835

Carronade, short piece of naval ordnance with large calibre chamber, like a mortar, 1850
Carronade, short piece of naval ordnance with large calibre chamber, like a mortar. Name said to come from Carron Ironworks, Scotland. Wood engraving, 1850

Building trade, c1845. A bricklayer working on a wooden scaffold (centre), a brickyard (top), mixing mortar (right), and a labourer carrying a load up a long ladder (left)

A mortar without a carriage lying on the ground to the right, soldiers firing cannons creating clouds of smoke in the background

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