Panic Collection

Two trains on fire on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 27th December 1903

Explosion on board the barque Lottie Sleigh, laden with gunpowder, in the Mersey..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Explosion on board the barque Lottie Sleigh, laden with gunpowder, in the Mersey, as seen from the Cheshire side, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Wood

Run on Berlin Bank when war declared, Aug 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Run on Berlin Bank when war declared, Aug 1914. Crowd of people at door of a bank in Berlin, Germany at the beginning of World War I.

Sketches at Canton - Panic at the Commissariat Stores - "Great Firing and No Execution", 1858. British forces cause havoc in China

Les Fuyards; La panique: soldats russes fuyant eperdument a travers un village apres... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les Fuyards; La panique: soldats russes fuyant eperdument a travers un village apres avoir jete leurs armes a la voix d'un provocateur criant que la cavalerie allemande avait perce, 1917

Panicking Townspeople, c1760. Creator: Unknown
Panicking Townspeople, c1760

Illustration for Henry Pestalozzi's Leonard and Gertrude or the Village Customs, 1782

King Louis Napoleon visits the ruins...after the explosion of the powder ship... (1807-1809)
King Louis Napoleon visits the ruins on the Rapenburg in Leiden after the explosion of the powder ship on January 12, 1807, (1807-1809)

P.D. Hasselaer makes himself known... 1809-1810. Creator: Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers
P.D. Hasselaer makes himself known when the Spaniards want to take his brother Claes Dirkz. prisoner, 1809-1810 . Spanish soldiers enter through a door

View of the fire on the stage of the Schouwburg in Amsterdam on 11 May 1772, (1772-1799). Creator: Anon
View of the fire on the stage of the Schouwburg in Amsterdam on 11 May 1772, (1772-1799). Blazing curtain on the right side of the stage. The actors, the musicians and the audience are in panic

Eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Seen from the Ponte della Maddalena in Naples, c.1783. Creator: Francesco Piranesi
Eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Seen from the Ponte della Maddalena in Naples, c.1783. The eruption of Mt Vesuvius on 8 August 1779 caused great panic among the Neapolitans

The Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre - Flight of the Masqueraders, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre - Flight of the Masqueraders, 1856. Illustration to a poem suggested by a theatre fire

The explosion of the powder magazine in Delft, 12 October 1654, (1654-1660). Creator: Egbert van der Poel
The explosion of the powder magazine in Delft, 12 October 1654, (1654-1660). One of the gunpowder stores accidentally detonated, flattening a large part of the city

Hungry Wolves Attacking a Party of Riders, 1836. Creator: Eugène Verboeckhoven
Hungry Wolves Attacking a Party of Riders, 1836

A Stormy Landscape, c. 1725. Creator: Marco Ricci
A Stormy Landscape, c. 1725

The Most Terrible Night, 1807-1808. Creator: Christian August Lorentzen
The Most Terrible Night. View of Kongens Nytorv (King's New Square) in Copenhagen During the English Bombardment of Copenhagen at Night between 4 and 5 September 1807, 1807-1808

Ah! Ciel, ma plus belle potiche!... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ah! Ciel, ma plus belle potiche!... 19th century. Ah! Sky my most beautiful potiche!... the most precious thing I have in the world

Une Panique a la Bourse, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une Panique a la Bourse, 19th century. Panic at the stock exchange. C'est en vain qu'on offre des actions, tout le monde sort d'en prendre

Impressions et compressions de voyage, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Impressions et compressions de voyage, 19th century. Early railway passengers: We're done for! No, it's well known that when the convoy moves forward the travellers move backwards

l'Avenue d'Orléans, durant les bombardements de Paris par les armées prussiennes, en janvier 1871
l'Avenue d'Orleans, durant les bombardements de Paris par les armees prussiennes, en janvier 1871 (actuelle avenue du General Leclerc), 14eme arrondissement

Les Derniers jours de Pompéi, between 1834 and 1850. Creator: Frédéric Schopin
Les Derniers jours de Pompei, between 1834 and 1850. The Last Days of Pompeii. Depiction of the destruction of the Roman city of Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 24

Fire of the Court of Auditors, October 27, 1737. Creator: Unknown
Fire of the Court of Auditors, October 27, 1737

Olympus, 1743/1744. Creator: Lorenzo De Ferrari
Olympus, 1743/1744

The Dead Mother and Her Child, 1901. Creator: Edvard Munch
The Dead Mother and Her Child, 1901

Hope (Spes) from the series The Virtues, 1559-60. Creator: Philip Galle
Hope (Spes) from the series The Virtues, 1559-60

Surpris Par Un Express, 1929. Creator: Unknown
Surprised by an express train, 1929. Surpris Par Un Express. A steam locomotive bears down on people taken unawares. Back cover of " Le Petit Journal Illustre". [France, 17 November 1929]

John Gilpin is found by the postboy from the Bell Inn, 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott
John Gilpin is found by the postboy from the Bell Inn, 1878, (c1918). The youth tries to grab hold of Gilpins horses bridle, and frightens it even more

John Gilpin gallops through a village, 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott
John Gilpin gallops through a village, 1878, (c1918). John Gilpin, with wine bottles attached to his belt, clings on as his horse tears down the road chased by dogs and scattering geese

Gambling at Whites Club, 1734, (1925). Creator: William Radclyffe
Gambling at Whites Club, 1734, (1925). Plate VI, the gaming house scene from Hogarths The Rakes Progress, engraved by W.Radclyffe

Exorcism by bell, book and candle, 1816. A clergyman reads a prayer by the light of a candle held for him by a man trembling with terror

The Rout at Eroor, c1891. Creator: James Grant
The Rout at Eroor, c1891. From " Cassells Illustrated History of India Vol. I.", by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York]

Panel from a Sarcophagus Depicting the Abduction of Persephone, 190-200. Creator: Unknown
Panel from a Sarcophagus Depicting the Abduction of Persephone, 190-200

Glass Tray, c. 1939. Creator: Henry Moran
Glass Tray, c. 1939

A man curled up in a chair looks toward another man who approaches him from the left in an interior setting, a woman and a man stand nearby with their hands raised

Plate 21 from the Tauromaquia : Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Torrejon, 1816

The beginning of the Flood: men and women climb to higher ground at right, water overtaking animals and people at left, Noahs Ark beyond

The Pit Door / La Porte du Parterre, November 9, 1784. Creator
The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre, November 9, 1784

American prairie on fire, 1844. Creator: Unknown
American prairie on fire, 1844. People and animals run in panic from the flames. From " Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

Standing Male Draped Figure With His Hands Raised, 1565-71

Sports of a Country Fair, Part the Third, October 5, 1810. October 5, 1810
Sports of a Country Fair, Part the Third, October 5, 1810

Plate 39, from World in Miniature, 1816. 1816. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Plate 39, from " World in Miniature", 1816

Sports of a Country Fair, October 5, 1810. October 5, 1810. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Sports of a Country Fair, October 5, 1810

Shell from the Naval Brigade Dispersing Boers from Behind the Seven Sisters Kopjes, 1900
Shell from the Naval Brigade Dispersing Boers from Behind the Seven Sisters Kopjes, During the Action of 7th March at Le Gallais Kopje, near Osfontein, 1900

Capture of a Boer Convoy by General Frenchs Troops near Kimberley, 1900. Creator
Capture of a Boer Convoy by General Frenchs Troops near Kimberley, 1900. During the Relief of Kimberle, a convoy of Boer wagons reached the crossing of the Modder at Paardeberg Drift when British

Death of Simon De Montfort, (1218), 1890. Creator: Unknown
Death of Simon De Montfort, (1218), 1890. Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester (1175-1218), a prominent leader of the Albigensian Crusade, died at the Siege of Toulouse in 1218

John Gilpin on his bolting horse being chased by passers-by, 1878, (c1918). Creator
John Gilpin on his bolting horse being chased by passers-by, 1878, (c1918). Riders shout Stop thief! Stop thief! A Highwayman

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 Gilpin is chased by dogs as his horse gallops out of control, 1878, (c1918). John Gilpin was the subject of a comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper entitled " The Diverting History of John

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