Town Collection (page 63)

Various forms of siege equipment, including battering rams, 1547. From Architectur...Mathematischen...Kunst by Gaultherius Rivius, 1547

Wheeled siege towers and bridges, 13th century (18th century). Siege equipment of the type used by Frederick II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, for his successful siege of Jerusalem (1229)

Julius Caesars siege of Marseilles, 49 BC (18th century). Reconstruction showing the musculus or covered way to protect engineers approaching the walls of the besieged city

English troops attacking a French town, Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 (c1830). The English besiegers are armed with early cannon and both longbows and crossbows

Street Scene in Winter, 1919-1920. Artist: Isaak Brodsky
Street Scene in Winter, 1919-1920. Found in the collection of the Brodsky Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

French Foreign Legion, Ain Temouchent, Algeria, 1899. French postcard

Heidelberg Castle and town viewed across the Neckar river, Germany, in 1620. Heidelberg was the home of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia (1619-1620) and Elizabeth

Hungarian gypsies outside Carcassonne, France, 1898. Artist: Henri Meyer
Hungarian gypsies outside Carcassonne, France, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 18th December 1898

Nubia, Egypt, 1887. Artist: Henri Bechard
Nubia, Egypt, 1887. Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt. Located in the collection, La Bibliotheque nationale de France

The Pyramids at Cairo, 1809. Artist: Rawle
The Pyramids at Cairo, 1809

Landscape, 1844-1924. Artist: Anatole France
Landscape, 1844-1924

The Great Battles of Louis XIV: Reduction of the Citadel of Cambrai, 1677. King Louis XIV of France (1638-1715), mounted on a white horse, receives the surrender of the city at the end of the siege

Knights Templar before Jerusalem, c1099, (14th century). Two knights approach the open gate to the city. On the battlements are three Saracen warriors

Place de Vosges, Paris, day of a Concert, late 19th / early 20th century. Artist: Frank Myers Boggs
Place de Vosges, Paris, day of a Concert, late 19th/early 20th century. From the Musee d Art et d Histoire, Meudon, France

Cemetery and Church of the Innocents. Flemish School. From the Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

Men taking a break from charging the retorts, Lambeth Gasworks, 1872
Men taking a break from charging the retorts while colleagues in background take their turn in the inferno, Lambeth Gasworks, 1872

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by earthquake, 1493. Fifteenth century depiction of a biblical event thought to have occurred c1900 BC

Gas works for lighting town or large district, 1819. Artist: Friedrich Accum
Gas works for lighting town or large district. 1: Collapsing gas holder. 2: Retort House. 3: Purifying House with lime machine. 4: Directors Office. From Frederick Accum Coal Gas, London, 1819

Retort House, Great Central Gas Works, Bow Common, London, 1866
Retort House, Great Central Gas Works, Bow Common, London. It was here that Croll introduced the burning of incandescent coke as fuel immediately as it had been taken from retorts, saving10%

Retort House, Imperial Gasworks, Kings Road, London, 1876
Retort House, Imperial Gasworks, Kings Road, London. Wood engraving, 1876

Quenching coke, South Metropolitan Gas Companys works, East Greenwich, London, 1891. Wood engraving

The condensers at the South Metropolitan Gas Companys works, East Greenwich, London, 1891. Wood engraving

Bakery in Pompeii, 1st century
Bakery in the Roman town of Pompeii, showing corn-mill, oven, and food counter, 1st century

Street in the Roman town of Pompeii, 1st century
Street in the Roman town of Pompeii, showing stepping stones and wheel ruts by a crossing, 1st century

Site of the Minoan town of Gournia, which flourished between the 17th and 12th centuries BC, and was excavated by Harriet Boyd

House in the Minoan town at Akrotiri, 15th century BC
House in the Minoan town at Akrotiri, covered in the volcanic eruption of c. 1450 BC by volcanic ash

The Roman town of Herculaneum, 1st century
Shot of Herculaneum, an excavated Roman town which was buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD

The house of the stags in the Roman town of Herculaneum
The house of the stags in Herculaneum, a Roman town buried by the eruption of Vesusivius in 79 AD

View of Venice, Woodcut, 1521. View of Venice from title page of Vespucci Voyages, 1521. Authorship ascribed to either Francan or Zorzi

View of a market place, c1570-1603. Artist: Hendrick van Steenwijck the Elder
View of a market place, c1570-1603. A scene in a busy market in a port town somewhere in the Low countries

Vienna, Austria, c1790. Artist: A Birrell
Vienna, Austria, c1790. View of the city from across the River Danube

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