Wall Collection (page 40)

Fortifications, c1880. An ancient fortress with curtain walls (top) and a bastioned fortress (bottom)

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

The Eleventh Hour, Siege of Mafeking, South Africa, Boer War, 1900. Artist: John Tenniel
The Eleventh Hour, Siege of Mafeking, South Africa, Boer War, 1900. Under the command of Colonel Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941)

Cairo, 1878. View showing the citadel and the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, built between 1830 and 1848. Found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Slaves building a wall watched by a taskmaster, Roman. Fragment of a wall painting

Ruins of the prehistoric Greek city of Mycenae
Site of the prehistoric Greek city of Mycenae. Mycenae was the home of Agamemnon and capital of the Achaean Greeks from c1450-c1100 BC

Renee Richard in the opera Sapho, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
Renee Richard in the opera Sapho, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 21st January 1893

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

Mosque, Egypt, 1862. Artist: Antonio Beato
Mosque, Egypt, 1862. Located in the collection, La Bibliotheque nationale de France

Premiere Love Letter, vintage French postcard, c1900

The Climbing, vintage French postcard, c1900

Tomorrow, vintage French postcard, c1900

The Church at Greville, c1871-1874. Artist: Jean Francois Millet
The Church at Greville, c1871-1874

The Spinner, Goatherd of the Auvergne, c1868-1869. Artist: Jean Francois Millet
The Spinner, Goatherd of the Auvergne, c1868-1869. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

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

The Etruscan Arch in Volterra, 4th century BC
The Etruscan Arch in Volterra, with three Etruscan heads, and the only surviving Etruscan arch, 4th century BC

San Gimignano in Italy, 14th-15th century

Buildings in the southern part of the Minoan Royal Palace at Knossos, 21st century BC

Wall of the pre-historic site at Phyllakopi on Milos, 31st century BC
Cycladic period wall of the pre-historic site at Phyllakopi on Milos, 31st century BC

Tholos tomb on Crete, 21st century BC
A megalithic tholos tomb near Phaestos on Crete, 21st century BC

Walls of the Roman port of Richborough, 1st century
Walls of the Roman port of Richborough in Kent, 1st century

Pevensey Castle, showing the Roman walls of the Saxon fort

Gold Hittite figure of a king or god, The Gold Tomb, Carcemish, Turkey, c605 BC. The Gold Tomb is a single grave, found inside the city walls

View of the ancient fortifications of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1562. Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
View of the ancient fortifications of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1562

Nitroglycerin processing plant, explosives factory, Val Bormida, near Cengio, Italy, 1888
Nitroglycerin processing plant, explosives factory, Val Bormida, near Cengio, north-west Italy, 1888. Nitroglycerin was mixed with Kieselghur (a diatomaceous earth) to produce Dynamite

John Ball (1861-1940), British golfer, cigarette card, 1903

Harry Vardon (1870-1937), British golfer, cigarette card, c1903

James Braid (1870-1950), from a cigarette card, Scottish, c1903

Dizzys Arithmetic, 1865 Artist: John Tenniel
Dizzys Arithmetic, 1865. Pam remarks Now, then, Youngster, You ve No Call to be a Chalking that Wall; and if You Must do a Sum, You might as well do it Right

The Popes Mad Bull, 1865. Artist: John Tenniel
The Popes Mad Bull, 1865. At the end of 1864, Pope Pius IX had issued an Encyclical Letter that itemised all the practices and beliefs of the modern world previously condemned by his holiness

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