Rope Collection

Christ Carrying the Cross, 1560s. Artist: Titian
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1560s. Titian (1488-1576). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Two Short Sunderlands rescuing crew, 1940
An artists impression of two Short Sunderlands rescuing the crew of the torpedoed merchant ship Kensington Court, 1940. On 18th September 1939 Kensington Court was stopped by U-32 with 13 shots of

Stage in the ascent of Mont Blanc, c1853, (1946). Creator: George Baxter
Stage in the ascent of Mont Blanc, c1853, (1946). Climbers on Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps - a man is being pulled out of a crevasse on a rope

Retablissement du culte catholique, 1802, (1921). Creator: Thomas-Charles Naudet
Retablissement du culte catholique, 1802, (1921). The restoration of Catholic worship - First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Man demonstrating ship rescue apparatus, 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Man demonstrating ship rescue apparatus, 1919. Shows man with a breeches buoy, a rope-based device to rescue people from wrecked ships

British kite balloon, 2 May 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
British kite balloon, 2 May 1918. A Royal Air Force Caquot kite balloon about to ascend with air mechanics holding the ropes, Gosnay, France, May 2, 1918, during World War I.

Raising the colossal bronze statue of Hercules found underground in the Campo dei Fiori, Rome, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Raising the colossal bronze statue of Hercules found underground in the Campo dei Fiori, Rome, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Carli, a French artist

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: taming a wild elephant, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: taming a wild elephant, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: testing the rope, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: testing the rope, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Embarking cattle at the port of Tamatave, Madagascar, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Embarking cattle at the port of Tamatave, Madagascar, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Lieutenant S. P. Oliver showing '...the mode of putting cattle on shipboard in a port of Madagascar

Northern types, 1928. Creator: Dmitrii Innokent'evich Karatanov
Northern types, 1928. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

The Penitent St Jerome. Creator: Georges de la Tour
The Penitent St Jerome, Unknown date

U.S.S. Richmond, "stand by to lay aloft", between 1890 and 1901. Creator: Unknown. U.S.S
U.S.S. Richmond, "stand by to lay aloft", between 1890 and 1901

U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and "Pitch" the mascot, (1899?). Creator: Unknown. U.S.S
U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and "Pitch" the mascot, (1899?)

The Queen's Visit to Cherbourg - Piping Hands to Man Yards, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Queen's Visit to Cherbourg - Piping Hands to Man Yards, 1858. One of the most exciting and agreeable sights that takes place on a vessel of war...When the boatswain pipes to man yards

Accident at the Entry Lock of the East India Docks, Blackwall, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Accident at the Entry Lock of the East India Docks, Blackwall, [London], 1858. The vessels were the brig Ocean, of Shoreham, bound to Swansea, with a cargo of copper ore, and the collier brig Lustre

The Wreck of the Strathmore: taking the Survivors from the Island...1876. Creators: W. J. P. W. H. O
The Wreck of the Strathmore: taking the Survivors from the Island, from a sketch supplied by Mr. Spencer Joslen, 1876....the emigrant-ship Strathmore [was wrecked], in July last

"The Last from the Wreck", by E. Duncan, in the Exhibition of the Water-Colour Society, 1860. Creator: M
"The Last from the Wreck", by E. Duncan, in the Exhibition of the Water-Colour Society, 1860. Engraving after a painting....the work of rescue has been completed

The members of the fire companies drawing the Prince of Wales through Carleton... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The members of the fire companies drawing the Prince of Wales through Carleton, a suburb of St. John, New Brunswick, 1860. The future King Edward VII visits North America

Single Leaf of Elephants on a River Bank, late 10th century AH/AD 16th-early 11th century AH... Creator: Unknown
Single Leaf of Elephants on a River Bank, late 10th century AH/AD 16th-early 11th century AH/AD 17th century. This Mughal painting depicts elephants on the bank of a river in a rocky landscape with a

Cockerel: Tsuna Goro, 1852. Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Cockerel: Tsuna Goro, 1852. Series: Parody of the 12 Signs of the Zodiac

Actors as Lion Dancers (image 2 of 4), c1850. Creator: Utagawa Kunisada
Actors as Lion Dancers (image 2 of 4), c1850. Bando Takesaburo I as Kokura-an Chokichi, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Moremore Yoshizo in the Play Iro Ichiza Tegoto no Fukubiki

Figure Studies, 1832-1880. Creator: Jan Weissenbruch
Figure Studies, 1832-1880

Shipwreck, mid-late 18th century. Creator: Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Shipwreck, mid-late 18th century. Dramatic scene: survivors cling to rocks being battered by huge waves

The Rope Dancer, late 19th century. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Rope Dancer, late 19th century

Raising the Anglesey statue to the top of the column erected to the memory of the late Marquis... 1 Creator: Unknown
Raising the Anglesey statue to the top of the column erected to the memory of the late Marquis [of Anglesey] near Menai Bridge - from a drawing by Mr. W. G. Haslam, 1860

Aoyanagi Harunosuke Throwing an Assailant Underwater, 1866. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Aoyanagi Harunosuke Throwing an Assailant Underwater, 1866. From Beauty and Valor in the Novel Suikoden

Slave Gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi Marsh...1876. Creator: Unknown
Slave Gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi Marsh, from a sketch by Lieutenant Cameron in Central Africa, 1876. The painful march of a slave gang

Futamigaura, the Wedded Rocks, 1896. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
Futamigaura, the Wedded Rocks, 1896. Series: Sketches of Famous Places in Japan

Yui, Published in 1854. Creators: Utagawa Kunisada, Ando Hiroshige
Yui, Published in 1854. From Double-brush 53 stages(Sohitsu gojusan tsugi), no. 17. he Sisters (Shimei) Miyagino and Shinobu

"Akasaka (numbered 37)"; Fujikawa (numbered 38) (image 4 of 4), c1802. Creator: Hokusai
"Akasaka (numbered 37)"; Fujikawa (numbered 38) (image 4 of 4), c1802. Rope makers. Series: Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido(Tokaido gojusan tsugi). Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai

Bamba; The Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Apprentice (Detchi) Chokichi, 1861. From Flowers of Edo with Views of Famous Places

Green, between circa 1847 and circa 1852. Creator: Utagawa Kunisada
Green, between circa 1847 and circa 1852. From Costumes in Five Different Colors

The Story of Tamiya Botaro, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Story of Tamiya Botaro, 1886. From A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures

Launch of the "Paramatta" Steam-ship at Blackwall on Monday week, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Launch of the "Paramatta" Steam-ship at Blackwall on Monday week, 1858. Paddle steam-ship, built by the Thames Iron and Shipbuilding Company

Sketches in India - Slinging Letter-bags across a Nullah in the Rainy Season, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in India - Slinging Letter-bags across a Nullah in the Rainy Season, 1858....the contrivance in use...when the streams

The Livingstone Expedition in Africa - H.M.S. "Lynx"... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Livingstone Expedition in Africa - H.M.S. "Lynx", sent for the relief of the Expedition, taking in sail during a squall, 1860. Engraving from a sketch by...T. Baines, Esq

Farina, with a man on his back, crossing the Niagara on a tightrope... August 29, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Farina [sic], with a man on his back, crossing the Niagara on a tightrope - from a sketch taken by the late master H. Ingram, from Clifton House balcony, August 29, 1860....Mr

Moored barges, 1870-1923. Creator: Willem Witsen
Moored barges, 1870-1923

D.C. Cook's horses, Lake George, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: William H. Jackson
D.C. Cook's horses, Lake George, between 1900 and 1905

Visit of the Boys of the Clyde training-ship Cumberland to H.M.S. Aurora, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Boys of the Clyde training-ship Cumberland to H.M.S. Aurora, 1876. Engraving from a sketch by Captain Grier. The little fellows seemed delighted at witnessing the manoeuvres of

U.S.S. New York, washing clothes, between 1893 and 1901. Creator: William H. Jackson
U.S.S. New York, washing clothes, between 1893 and 1901

Taming an elephant, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Taming an elephant, 1785. Pen or stable built of bamboo framework in which three elephants are tied up. Singalese men pull on ropes. The middle elephant is doused with water. With inscription. No

Wild elephant bound between trees, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Wild elephant bound between trees, 1785. Indian elephant tied with ropes to two trees and a Singalese with spear. With inscription. Part of Jan Brandes sketchbook, dl. 2 (1808), p. 141

Elephant stable, 1786. Creator: Jan Brandes
Elephant stable, 1786. Newly caught elephant in a bamboo framework between two trees. The head of the elephant is sewn on the paper with string so that it can turn. With inscription. No

View of rock detached from shore in a cove on Gozo, 1778. Creator: Louis Ducros
View of rock detached from shore in a cove on Gozo, 1778. Drawing from the album Voyage to Italy, Sicily and Malta

Restraining a Wild Elephant, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Restraining a Wild Elephant, 1785

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