Siege Antique

Franciscus Valdesius ( Valdez) is known is known as the Commander of the Spanish troops during the surrounding in 1574 of Leiden (seen over his shoulder in the background), engraved ...

He started his career in the Swedish Army in Poland in 1645 and took part in the siege of Copenhagen in 1660. In 1661 he went into Danish pay.

This bird's-eye plan of Trondheim illustrates the attack on the city during the Dano-Swedish War. The siege began on September 28, 1658 with Dano-Norwegian forces attempting to overt...

Tantallon Castle endured multiple sieges, including significant attacks during the 16th century when it was involved in the political struggles between the monarchy and rebellious no...

He served as a dispatch rider for the Belgian government and was present at the Siege of Antwerp. The artist wrote a memoir of this time entitled Four Days: an account of a journey i...

He served as a dispatch rider for the Belgian government and was present at the Siege of Antwerp. The artist wrote a memoir of this time entitled Four Days: an account of a journey i...

He served as a dispatch rider for the Belgian government and was present at the Siege of Antwerp. The artist wrote a memoir of this time entitled Four Days: an account of a journey i...

The print is a historical depiction of the Siege of Bergen (also known as Mons) in Hainaut in 1572, during the Eighty Years' War.

An interesting Lithograph of the French old master, Auguste Raffet, describes the departure of workers to Tranchee during the Siège of Rome in 1849, which artist mastery created seri...

Fallen warriors, captured armor, and scattered war instruments emphasize the fierce brutality of this climactic siege. A backdrop of monumental stone walls with battlements, towers,...

The Royal Palace. All under siege by a large number of Dutch ships, the fortifications going up in flames.

His next war service was as chief of staff to General Vaillant during the 1849 siege of Rome, after which he was made general of brigade and director of engineer services at headquar...

The locations of historic battle sites and sieges, of which there are numerous are show as red flags dotted throughout the image.

The presence of a castle or fortified town in the background suggests he may be standing guard or preparing for a siege. The colors have a nice glow over them. Historically, egg whi...

The bed features a brass plate reading 'AMEUBLEMENTS DE STYLE / Meubles, Sieges, Tentures / AU GROS CHENE / 12, Rue Drouot / PARIS'.

It might show important landmarks like the neutral ground, the bay, and perhaps the Moorish Castle or the Great Siege Tunnels, essential to Gibraltar's military history.

Obwohl David erhobenen Hauptes als Sieger in einer scheinbar gelassenen Haltung dasteht, ist ihm doch eine innere Anspannung abzulesen, die Donatellos David fehlt.

On the right side, is depicted the Godesburg castle, built in the 13th century on a volcanic hill and partially destroyed after the 1583 siege in the beginning of the Cologne War. Fi...

Obwohl David erhobenen Hauptes als Sieger in einer scheinbar gelassenen Haltung dasteht, ist ihm doch eine innere Anspannung abzulesen, die Donatellos David fehlt.

In 1660 he was present at the Dutch siege of Makassar (in Sulawesi) and he participated in the campaigns of Rucklof van Goens along the Malabar coast.

An eclectic artist, he experimented with different genres: for the Villa Puccini di Scornio in Pistoia, in 1838, he was commissioned to create a history picture, The death of Frances...

Burnside in the defense of that city, then under siege by a portion of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Gen.

In 1660 he was present at the Dutch siege of Makassar (in Sulawesi) and he participated in the campaigns of Rucklof van Goens along the Malabar coast.

From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and i...

In the 17th century, the military might of the Ottoman Empire was especially feared throughout Europe, thus the popularity of depictions of defeats of this Oriental foe, whose power ...

During the war of 1813-14, Thersner held various commands and notably led the engineering efforts during the siege of Glückstadt. Promoted to major in the Field Survey Brigade in 18...

From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and i...

**The Combatant’s Vision** The Siege of Paris, where he nearly lost his life in 1870, and the deaths of two brothers in that defeat darkened his outlook.

She became Duchess of Burgundy at the age of twenty, after the death of his father during the siege of Nancy. She is here represented practicing her favorite hobby, the hawk hunt.

When the Greeks, who were holding Troy under siege, left the famous Trojan Horse on the beach, Laocoon tried to warn the Trojan leaders against bringing it into the city, in case it ...

During the war of 1813-14, Thersner held various commands and notably led the engineering efforts during the siege of Glückstadt. Promoted to major in the Field Survey Brigade in 18...

From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and i...

This was ended abruptly by Oliver Cromwell, who brought the country back under English rule; his son-in-law Henry Ireton finally took Waterford in 1650 after a major siege.[7] In 169...

During the war of 1813-14, Thersner held various commands and notably led the engineering efforts during the siege of Glückstadt. Promoted to major in the Field Survey Brigade in 18...

During the war of 1813-14, Thersner held various commands and notably led the engineering efforts during the siege of Glückstadt. Promoted to major in the Field Survey Brigade in 18...

Here we see the Spencean Philanthropists; Watson, Thistlewood, Preston, Harrison, and Hunt, among others, are preparing for their siege, in their Cato Street den, little did they kno...

From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and i...

Roybet knew what he was good at and stuck to it; he chose to specialise in costumed figures, mostly from the 17th and 18th century and managed to secure a contract to produce three c...

The cabinetmaker's signature can be seen in areas that are not easily visible: "JEANSELME FILS GODIN ET CIE / EBENISTERIE, SIEGES ET TAPISSERIE / RUE DU HARLAY 7 & 9, AU MARAIS".

In the original Biblical story, the heroine Judith beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes, then laying siege to Judith's city of Bethulia, after he attempts to seduce her in his tent.

While there he got in a fight with Cadet Philip Sheridan, who would serve under Gen. Henry Halleck in the Siege of Corinth. Sheridan was angered at the tone of an order given by Cad...

Nikita Ivanovich Aminov took part in the siege of Kazan in 1552, where he was killed in action.

Obenchain served as the unit’s temporary commander during the Battle of Port Gibson (May 1, 1863) and during the siege of Vicksburg (May-July 1863). Captured and paroled, Obenchain a...

He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in ...

The statue had to be completed after the resumption of work following the forced pause of the siege of Florence and its consequences, being left to a state of conspicuous "non-finito...

Nikita Ivanovich Aminov took part in the siege of Kazan in 1552, where he was killed in action.

His earliest dated engravings are of 1672 (e.g. the Siege of Groningen , Hollstein, no. 4), and he supplied numerous plates for books published from that date onwards.

The archaeological excavations led in Alise-Sainte-Reine (Côte-d’Or, France) were commissioned from 1861 until 1865 by His Majesty the Emperor Napoléon III in order to find back the ...

His earliest dated engravings are of 1672 (e.g. the Siege of Groningen , Hollstein, no. 4), and he supplied numerous plates for books published from that date onwards.

From this vantage point, he made a series of sketches, dating to 1864, based on his observations of the Virginia countryside under siege from Union forces. Station on the Morris and ...

The great success of his panorama 'The Siege of Paris', which was exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878, led to the production of a large number of panoramas, which wer...

In the vernacular it is said that the execution of the face refers to the Turkish siege, or else that here the carver immortalized himself with a portrait.

GERMAN VERSION Arthur Kampf (1864 Aachen - 1950 Castorp-Rauxel), Studie zu einer Allegorie des Sieges, um 1900. Bleistift auf Papier, 21 cm x 18 cm, unten links signiert „A.

His earliest dated engravings are of 1672 (e.g. the Siege of Groningen , Hollstein, no. 4), and he supplied numerous plates for books published from that date onwards.

Indeed Saint George was adopted as patron saint by the crusaders in the Holy Land after the siege of Antioch in 1097. From then on Saint George was considered a model of chivalrous v...

In 549, Rome was under siege; the Ostrogoths of Totila entered through this gate, because of the treason of the Isaurian garrison.

For a similar dolphin support, see Madeleine Jarry and Pierre Devinois, Le Siège Français, pp. 267 and 271 illustration 264 for an armchair at the Musée Marmottan stamped G.

By relying on press accounts and abstracting from the visual propagandistic content, they were unable to interpret the siege of Reims without turning away from German culture in disg...

By relying on press accounts and abstracting from the visual propagandistic content, they were unable to interpret the siege of Reims without turning away from German culture in disg...

By relying on press accounts and abstracting from the visual propagandistic content, they were unable to interpret the siege of Reims without turning away from German culture in disg...