Running Away Collection

The Featherd Fair in a Fright, 18th century. Women with elaborate feathered hairdos flee from angry ostriches who want their feathers back

Christmas in Leap Year - by Florence Claxton, 1860. Creator: Gilks
Christmas in Leap Year - by Florence Claxton, 1860. Humorous vignettes depicting a tradition, known as Bachelor's Day or Ladies Privilege

Disappointed Bride: Kono Flees Upon Discovering That the Ugly Bridegroom Is Not Whom... 1879
Disappointed Bride: Kono Flees Upon Discovering That the Ugly Bridegroom Is Not Whom She Promised to Marry, 1879. Series: The Kanayomi Newspaper, no. 891

Les Emeutes de juillet 1917 a Petrograd; Un episode de la Guerre de Rues, le 17 juillet, 1917. Creator: Viktor Bulla
Les Emeutes de juillet 1917 a Petrograd; Un episode de la Guerre de Rues, le 17 juillet, 1917. Russian Revolution: the Petrograd Riots of July 1917; an episode of the Street Wars, 17 July

Les Fuyards; Officiers russes et anglais des automobiles blindees arretant un convoi de... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les Fuyards; Officiers russes et anglais des automobiles blindees arretant un convoi de soldats qui fuyaient le front sur des chars enleves a l'Intendance, 1917

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

La nouvelle Cendrillon, 1866. Creator: Honore Daumier
La nouvelle Cendrillon, 1866. The new Cinderella. Allegorical figure of Austria running from the Italian boot. From Actualites

Three children quarreling over a bird's nest, 1720. Creator: Isaac Walraven
Three children quarreling over a bird's nest, 1720. One boy runs away with the nest and chicks, while the other hits the girl and pulls her hair

Flight of the Greeks from Larissa, c1900. Creator: Ernest Prater
Flight of the Greeks from Larissa, c1900. Ottoman forces re-occupied the city of Larissa, in Thessaly, during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol

The Peasant's Pleasure, after c.1619. Creator: Unknown
The Peasant's Pleasure, after c.1619

Runaway, 1870-1910. Creator: John MacAllan Swan
Runaway, 1870-1910

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

Satyrs Spying on Nymphs, after 1627. Creator: Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Satyrs Spying on Nymphs, after 1627

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

Un Miracle (A Miracle), 1874. Creator: Mose, Bianchi
Un Miracle (A Miracle), 1874

The "Gallumbo, " a popular Sport in Spain, 1891. Creator: Unknown
The "Gallumbo, " a popular Sport in Spain, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Si le chasseur a froid aux mains...le lièvre n'a pas froid aux pieds... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Si le chasseur a froid aux mains...le lievre n'a pas froid aux pieds... 19th century. Hunting scenes. The huntsman may have cold hands...but the hare doesn't have cold feet

Arrivée en Alsace du commissaire... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Arrivee en Alsace du commissaire... 19th century. Arrival in Alsace of the special commissioner Coco Romieu

Paul and Virginia or the very Last of the Smugglers, 1886. Creator: Randolph Caldecott
Paul and Virginia or the very Last of the Smugglers, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Rout of the Mexicans, 1849. Creator: Unknown
Rout of the Mexicans, 1849. Scene from the Mexican-American War. From "Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican War", by John Frost, LL.D.. [Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co

The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - the Coal-Cellar at the "George", Bankside, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - the Coal-Cellar at the "George", Bankside, 1850. Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau hides from a London mob who attacked him for his sanguinary

Woman Fleeing from a Man Holding a Lance in the Forest, 1796/1800. Creator: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder
Woman Fleeing from a Man Holding a Lance in the Forest, 1796/1800

The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - the Bed-Room in which Marshal Haynau was Concealed, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - the Bed-Room in which Marshal Haynau was Concealed, 1850. After being attacked by angry workers during a visit to a brewery in Southwark, London

Der Zechpreller, mid-late 19th century, (c1924). Creator: Carl Spitzweg
Der Zechpreller, mid-late 19th century, (c1924). The bill-dodger. A man attempts to leave as a woman grabs his coat. From " Die gute alte Zeit: Zeichnungen von Karl Spitzweg"

The Rabbit Running Away, 1930. Artist: John Tenniel
The Rabbit Running Away, 1930. The White Rabbit from Lewis Carrolls (1832-1898) Alice in Wonderland. After an illustration by John Tenniel (1820-1914) colour printed by Edward Evans (1826-1905)

The Ryogoku Fire Sketched from Hamacho on the 26th of January, 1881, (1881). Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
The Ryogoku Fire Sketched from Hamacho on the 26th of January, 1881, (1881). The fire broke out in Kanda Matsueda-cho, half a mile west of Kiyochika's house near the west end of Ryogoku Bridge

Charge of the Black Rhinoceros; Life in a South African Colony, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Charge of the Black Rhinoceros; Life in a South African Colony, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] Belle Sauvage Works.London E.C

The Elopement, c. 1750. Creator: Torii Kiyohiro
The Elopement, c. 1750

The Elopement (parody of Akutagawa episode from "Tales of Ise"), c. 1767
The Elopement (parody of Akutagawa episode from " Tales of Ise" ), c. 1767

Couple eloping, from the Akutagawa episode in the Tales of Ise, n. d. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Couple eloping, from the Akutagawa episode in the Tales of Ise, n.d

The Village School Scene (Terakoya), from the series "Sugawaras Secrets... c
The Village School Scene (Terakoya), from the series " Sugawaras Secrets (Sugawara denju)", c. 1830/44

Au Loup! (Furnishing Fabric), France, 1783/89. Creator: Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
Au Loup! (Furnishing Fabric), France, 1783/89. Wolf! designed by Jean Baptiste Huet after Jacques Stella, manufactured by Christophe Phillipe Oberkampf

Flight from Pompeii, 1873. Creator: Giovanni Maria Benzoni
Flight from Pompeii, 1873

Friar Pedro Shoots El Maragato as His Horse Runs Off, c. 1806. Creator: Francisco Goya
Friar Pedro Shoots El Maragato as His Horse Runs Off, c. 1806

A Miracle (Un Miracle), 1874. Creator: Mose, Bianchi
A Miracle (Un Miracle), 1874

The Fugitives, 1916 / 1917. Creator: Ernst Barlach
The Fugitives, 1916/1917

A cette lueur soudaine... (In the sudden gleam of light... ), 1878
A cette lueur soudaine... (In the sudden gleam of light...), 1878

La Maison Maudite (The House of the Damned), c. 1883 / 1885. Creator: Felix Hilaire Buhot
La Maison Maudite (The House of the Damned), c. 1883/1885

The Count from the Dance of Death, 1651. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
The Count from the Dance of Death, 1651

Queen, from the Dance of Death, 1651. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Queen, from the Dance of Death, 1651

Atalanta and Hippomenes, in the foreground Atalanta kneeling to pick up an apple and Hippomenes running with an apple in either hand, in the landscape background Atalanta running

Plate 43 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): This too. (Tambien esto.), 1810 (published 1863)

The Great Victory of Qurman, 1770. Creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin
The Great Victory of Qurman, 1770

Greek Lovers, 1825. Creator: Asher Brown Durand
Greek Lovers, 1825

The Battle of Tonguzluq, 1773. Creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin
The Battle of Tonguzluq, 1773

Ballad of the Involuntary and Voluntary Fall (Ballade vom unfreiwilligen und vom freiwilli... 1911)
Ballad of the Involuntary and Voluntary Fall (Ballade vom unfreiwilligen und vom freiwilligen Sturz"), 1911

Novel fox hunt, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Novel fox hunt, 1844. A remarkably fine fox escaped from the hands of his keeper, in St. George s-Fields. From " Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

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