Panicking Collection

The Chicago Fire: the Randolph-Street Bridge, 1871. Creator: Unknown
The Chicago Fire: the Randolph-Street Bridge, 1871. 'Our front-page Engraving shows the scene on the Randolph-street bridge over the Chicago River, on Monday, the 9th October

The Last Day of Pompeii, mid 19th century. Creator: Karl Briullov
The Last Day of Pompeii, mid 19th century. Copy

Stampede of cavalry horses at Aldershott Camp, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Stampede of cavalry horses at Aldershott Camp, 1871. Horses breaking loose, '...from a sketch by Captain Fellows, of the 3rd Surrey Militia...the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wall Street Crash, New York City, USA, Thursday, 24 October 1929. The panicking crowds that collected that morning outside the Stock Exchange building at Broad and Wall Streets

Theatre, late 16th / early 17th century. Artist: Jacques Bellange
Theatre, Bellange, Private Collection

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