Survival Collection (page 2)

Rage Of Elements. Artist: Aivazovsky, Ivan Konstantinovich (1817-1900)
Rage Of Elements. Found in the collection of the I. Ayvasovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosiya

North Sea Storm, 1865. Artist: Aivazovsky, Ivan Konstantinovich (1817-1900)
North Sea Storm, 1865. Found in the collection of the I. Ayvasovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosiya

Gibraltar by Night, 1844. Artist: Aivazovsky, Ivan Konstantinovich (1817-1900)
Gibraltar by Night, 1844. From a private collection

The Pilot, 1925, (1926). Artist: Arthur Briscoe
The Pilot, 1925, (1926). From The Studio Volume 91. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1926]

Robinson Crusoe, chapbook cut, 18th century (1964). A print from A History of Wood Engraving, by Douglas Percy Bliss, Spring Books, London, 1964. (Colorised black and white print)

Wreck of the Lady Hobart, 1803, 1925. The Lady Hobart was a Post Office packet which sank after striking an iceberg en route to England from Halifax, Nova Scotia

Killing Seals, 1911, (1928). Originally from The South Pole by Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872-1928). From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias M.A. [George G

Hunting Walruses, c1927, (1928). From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias M.A. [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1928]

Admiral Somers runs his ship ashore, Bermuda, 1609 (c1880). Admiral Sir Geirge Somers (1554-1610) was the founder of the English colony of Bermuda

Landscape with Stormy Sea, ca 1720. Artist: Magnasco, Alessandro (1667-1749)
Landscape with Stormy Sea, ca 1720. Found in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Three Ships in a Gale, 1673. Artist: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger (1633-1707)
Three Ships in a Gale, 1673. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Sea storm with sailing ships, c. 1645. Artist: Peeters, Bonaventura, the Elder (1614-1652)
Sea storm with sailing ships, c. 1645. Found in the collection of the Wilanow Palace Museum

Darwinian Ancestor, 1887. Artist: George du Maurier
Darwinian Ancestor, 1887. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) said to the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder

George du Maurier cartoon from Punch illustrating Darwinism, 1887. Artist: George du Maurier
Development of Species Under Civilisation, 1887. The old evolutionary argument of Nature or Nurture: it would be a brave person who came to a conclusion on this evidence. Cartoon from Punch

The Survival of the Fittest; application of Darwinism in the 21st century, 1880. Artist: George du Maurier
The Survival of the Fittest ; application of Darwinism in the 21st century, 1880. The term Survival of the fittest was first used by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) in 1851

Coal miners trapped underground by a roof fall, Courrieres Mines, Pas-de-Calais, France, 1906. The miners survived by eating carrots and oats they found in the pit pony stables

Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic explorer, 1914
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), British Antarctic explorer, 1914. Portrait surrounded by vignettes of his fatal expedition to South Pole

Four Vessels Running Before a Gale, 1630. Artist: Mulier, Pieter, the Elder (ca 1610-1659)
Four Vessels Running Before a Gale, 1630. Found in the collection of the Hallwylska Museet, Stockholm

Scene from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1892. Artist: John Dawson Watson
Scene from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1892. This 18th century memoir novel was inspired by the story of the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721). Robinson Crusoe ill with ague

Postcard commemorating Captain Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, c1912. Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) English antarctic explorer (inset) and his ship the Terra Nova trapped in ice

William Bligh, British naval officer received by the Governor of Timor, 14 June 1789 (1802)
William Bligh, British naval officer received hospitably by the Governor of Timor, 14 June 1789 (1802). Bligh (1754-1817)

Noahs Ark - the animals going in two by two, 1716. God saving the chosen from the flood sent as a punishment to the masses. From the Bible (Genesis 7)

The Deluge or Flood, mid 19th century. Noah builds an altar and makes a burnt offering in thanks for the receding of the waters and the preservation of the Ark and its occupants

The Deluge, 1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
The Deluge, 1866. The last frantic attempts to cling to life. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth.... From the Bible (Genesis 7.22)

Noahs Sacrifice, c1688-1736. Artist: Nicolas Bertin
Noahs Sacrifice, c1688-1736. Noah making a burnt offering of doves to God for deliverance from the flood

Daniel in the lions den, Roman mosaic, 5th century. According to the Bible (Daniel 6:20), Daniel, one of the four great Hebrew prophets, was cast into the lions den by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

Mutiny of the crew of HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789. Lieutenant William Bligh (1754-1817), English naval officer and his 18 companions cast adrift in a longboat by Fletcher Christian

Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf. Detail from a marble monument to the twin founders of Rome, who according to legend were abandoned in the wild and raised by a she-wolf

Romulus and Remus, c500 BC. Bronze of the legendary twin founders of Rome being suckled by the she-wolf. From the Museo Capitolino, Rome

Winter quarters of Willem Barents expedition to the Arctic, 1596-1597. Barents (d 1597) was a Dutch navigator who led expeditions in 1594, 1595 and 1596-1597 in search of a Northeast Passage to Asia

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