19th Century War Illustrations

Engravings depicting scenes from military history, including battles, logistics, and aftermaths, with detailed landscapes and dramatic narratives.

The annual field day and exhibition of siege operations at Chatham, Kent. Watched by a large crowd of spectators, Royal Engineers and other troops of the garrison demonstrate an attack on the Redan using a flying bridge. Date: 5 August 1868

'General View of Kustendje', 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854".

THE RECENT INUNDATION AT GUARDAMIGLIO, NEAR PLACENZA

The Morning after the Explosion at Inkerman Mill, 1856. Scene from the Crimean War:. '...the right siege-train in front of the commissariat stores at Inkerman, as it appeared on the morning of the 16th November....it had been ascertained that the Windmill itself, which forms our main magazine in that part of the Camp, and contains some hundred and eighty tons of powder, had escaped...General Straubenzee...asked if any of the men would volunteer to mount the wall...and cover the roof with wet tarpaulins and blankets as a protection against the thickly-flying sparks and burning wood...Whilst...s

Grajal, near Sahagun (Leon province), vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1872).

The annual field day and exhibition of siege operations at Chatham, Kent. Watched by a large crowd of spectators, Royal Engineers and other troops of the garrison demonstrate an attack on the Redan using a flying bridge. Date: 5 August 1868

An encampment on the River Congo, Africa, c1890. Artist: Unknown

An engraving depicting an author's idea of warfare in the 1950s: Chemical warfare battery. Dated 19th century

Engraving of boat oars of indigenous New Zealand. Dated 18th Century

Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men building an ice house in the foreground, whilst their ship is seen in the background, surrounded by the ice pack. This image was created in order to give the readers of the 'Illustrated London News' an idea of the conditions that the Franklin and Ross expeditions of the 1840's might encounter in the Arctic. Date: 1849

THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ MARITIME CANAL

Landing of the French army in Egypt on 1 July 1798, Bonaparte campaign to the Orient, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exac...

THE CRIMEAN WAR

Burning of the town of Novitska, in the White Sea, 1854. Scene from the Crimean War: Royal Navy warships bombard a town in northern Russia. 'Operations of the White Sea Squadron...the English squadron in that distant region, has not been idle...The town of Novitska was burned to the ground on the 23rd July, by the steamers Brisk and Miranda...View of the town while it was in flames...they would not come to terms, so we manned and armed boats the next morning, and landed our marines and sailors to the left of the town, and proceeded up closer to the town with the gun-boats. They opened fire o

Disturbances in the dock area of Canton (modern day Guangzhou), China during the Red Turban Rebellion of 1854 - 1856. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859

Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerningham's idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous and sometimes impossible due to the strength of the waves. Captain Jerningham felt that if a mortar were used to fire one or two anchors out beyond the surf, a lifeboat could haul on these anchor lines to pull itself through the breakers and into the calmer water beyond. Date: 1846

'The Battle of Edge-hill, 1642', (late 17th century). Creator: Michael Vandergucht.

Sheridan's Campaign - Battle of Fisher's Hill, September 28, 1864 - American Civil War

Distant view of the town, but not so distant that these Spanish soldiers can't bombard it... Date: 1860

Crowds watch the digging the first turf of the Ballymena to Portrush railway, Ireland, 1853.

THE CRIMEAN WAR

Illustration depicting an ancient British trackway. Dated 19th Century

The Taeping Rebellion in China: troops of the Quinsan Garrison, under Major Gordon, forming square, 1864. Engraving from a photograph, '...illustrative of the capture of the Chinese town of Soo-Chow by the Imperialist troops, under Major Gordon; and the subsequent destruction of the Taeping or rebel leaders...By the exertions of Major Gordon, an officer of the Royal Engineers, a small but well-organised force of native troops has been collected and trained with European discipline, its head-quarters being in the town of Quinsan...Here we see a body of these Chinese regular infantry going throu

Works for the Suez-Cairo Railway Line in Sayal-el-Elagate, Egypt, from a sketch by Barbot, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 736, Volume XXIX, April 4, 1857.

Harvest Operations - Gleaning, 1858. One of our Artists, fresh from the cornfields, has forwarded to us the accompanying Illustrations of gathering in the harvest. Nothing can present a more beautiful sight than the golden fields at this period of the year; and those who have left the great metropolis on visits to their country cousins must indeed be gratified with the sights around them...Our Sketch is rich in Scriptural associations. A pleasant spectacle it is to watch the operations of the gleaners - women and children nimbly moving about in all directions, trying to outvie one another as t

A Police Raid on the Quarries of America, 1868, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unk...

French Expedition to Paraguay. A street in Asuncion

THE LATE EXPLOSION AT MAYENCE

Bombardment of Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 Artist Unknown

Opening of the Inland Sea Ports of Japan: the port of Hiogo, with the British and American fleets at anchor, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Acting Sub-Lieutenant F. J. Palmer, R.N., of H.M.S. Sylvia, showing a view '...taken from an elevation of about 700 ft...about 2½ miles from the town of Corbè. The nearer and inner bay, with houses skirting it, is Corbè Bay, with its town; the further and outer one being Hiogo Hyogo Bay, with the town of that name... The British, French, American, and other foreign merchants, who have been restricted...for the most part, to Yokohama...and

Bomarsund Fortress in the 19th century; Location of the Battle of Bomarsund during the Aland War of 1854; Black and White Illustration

THE CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN

During Ross's voyage to find Franklin, a travelling party pitches their tent for the day in Prince Regent's inlet. Date: 1848 - 49

The ruins round Paris: interior of Fort Issy, 1871. Engraving of a sketch '...made immediately after the end of the Prussian siege, when these positions had just been abandoned by the French troops engaged in the defence of Paris against the foreign enemy, and before they were occupied by the Red Republican or Communist forces'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Engraving depicting the Guerrilla warfare during the Peninsular War (1807ñ1814) was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. Dated 1809

Siege of Antwerp, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897

The remains of the Porte Maillot, where some of the fiercest fighting takes place.

Battle of Le Quesnel on 23 November 1870, Illustrierte Kriegschronik 1870 - 1871, Illustrated War Chronicle 1870 - 1871, German-French Campaign

The Campaign in Kentucky - Federal troops under General Johnston advancing on the the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, overtaken by the equipage and baggage train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. USA Civil War.

Jean-François de Galoup, Comte de La Pérouse (August 23, 1741-1788) was a French explorer and naval officer. In 1785, the King of France commissioned La Perouse to head an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean, to investigate whaling and fur prospects, and to establish French claims in this area. La Pérouse had admired the explorer James Cook, and wanted to continue his work. La Perouse was assigned two 500-ton ships called the Astrolabe and the Boussole. His crew of 114 included sailors, scientists, a physicist, three draftsmen, three naturalists, clergymen, and a mathematician. They left France in August, 1785. La Perouse mapped the west coast of North America in 1786, and visited Easter Island and Hawaii. His ships reached the west coast of Alaska in 1786 and did extensive mapping of the North American west coast from Alaska to Monterey, California. Next La Pérouse landed at Botany Bay (Port Jackson), Australia, before heading for the Solomon Islands. La Pérouse took the opportuni

A Flood in China, circa 1887

Engraving showing the assault on the lower battery at Simonosaki, during the American Civil War, 1864. Date: 1864

THE CRIMEAN WAR

General McClellan massing his troops at Alexandria near Washington, for the Peninsula campaign. Date: 1862

The Batavia fish market in 1595, from 1619 to 1799 the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Asia and to Indonesia's independence in the 1940s, the capital of Dutch India, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated,

Artillery battery in the coastal forest at Moellenort near the Bay of Kiel, Germany, December 1870, historical illustration, Illustrierte Kriegschronik 1870 - 1871 illustrated chronicle of war, German-French campaign, Europe

GRABADO-CULTIVO MANUAL Y TRATAMIENTO DEL ALGODON-RECOLECTA- S XVIII.

American Civil War, floating infernal machine in the Potomac River Date: 1861

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Reparation of the railway bridge over the Marne river at Trilport, near Meaux, destroyed by the French in 1870. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

EXPERIMENTS WITH THE MACKAY GUN AT CROSBY SANDS, NEAR LIVERPOOL, UK, 1867

Storm in Balaclava Bay, 1854. Crimean War: Royal Navy ships lost in bad weather on the Black Sea. 'Ship Caducis; Ship Progress; Maltese Brig; Steamer Melbourne; HMS Avon; HMS Vesuvius; Wild Wave; Ship Mercia...experience showed that the Admiralty agents here had been sadly lacking in knowledge or discretion to permit so many valuable vessels to remain exposed to the chances of the weather in so unsafe an anchorage...The sea, which seemed to gather in a dark mass under the heavy clouds which covered the sky at dawn, was gradually lashed into the whiteness of a boiling cauldron...In the midst of

Crimean War: ambulance men collecting the wounded after the Battle of Inkermann. Wood engraving.

1860S March 8,9 1862 Battle Of Hampton Roads Fight Between Federal Monitor And Confederate Merrimac First Ironclad Naval Battle

'Bombardment of Sweaborg', c1880. Artist: Unknown.

The Fourth Division Burial-ground, on Cathcart's Hill, Crimea, 1856. Crimean War. 'This Illustration possesses a melancholy interest, and will naturally be appreciated by those in England whose relatives and friends have fallen in battle and at the siege, and now rest upon Cathcart's Hill...Shown here are deceased officers' tombs, with their names...The tombs of the officers of the 68th Regiment are alike - red Maltese marble; those of the 57th, white marble; and the 63rd, stone crosses. A very handsome memorial is shown, in jet-black marble, to Sir R. Newman, Grenadier Guards. The monument

Return of the Costa Ricans to their capital - San Jose after General William Walker's expedition to Nicaragua

Prehistoric boat discovered at Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Artwork: "Engineering Line on Iwo Jima" Artist: Maltby Skyes. Country: Unknown

SPAIN 1873, THE HARBOUR OF CARTHAGENA, NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF THE INSURGENTS

Aquia Creek, on the Potomac, new base of supplies of the Army of the Potomac. Illus. from: Harper's weekly, 1862 Dec. 6, p. 779. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, Union, Harbors, Virginia, Aquia, 1860-1870.

The boats of HMS 'Sutlej' and HMS 'Devastation' attacking a native American Indian village in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, 1864. The British boats attacked the Indian village in retaliation, after the Ahousat tribe plundered and destroyed a small vessel, the 'Kingfisher', killing the captain and crew. Date: 1864

The town of Perryville, Kentucky in 1862, scene of a recent battle in the American Civil War

Storming of the Lunette St. Laurent of Antwerp on 14 December 1832, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Camp Sefer Pasha, in Batum, 1855. Engraving

Garibaldi at the Farro Point; Messina; reconnoitring the Fort Torre Di Cavallo; Calabria.

The battle of Mentana commences at the Vigna Santucci : Garibaldi will be defeated by the papal forces and their French allies, and he himself taken prisoner. 3 November 1867

The Bombardment of Fredericksburg, December 11, 1862 / R.F. Zogbaum ; Evans sc. | Library of Congress

The attack of the sixty three canoes of the piratical Bangala, Central Africa. Journey to unexplored Africa, the mysterious continent by Henry Morton Stanley. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1881

Prince Alfred in Australia: Glenelg, South Australia, landing-place of the Duke of Edinburgh, 1868. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. T. Duryea. 'At Glenelg, which is the favourite watering-place of the citizens of Adelaide, great preparations were made to give the Prince a festive welcome. A profuse display of flags and banners waved along the whole length of the jetty...at each end of the pier was the union-jack...Close to the landing-place was a small pavilion, where the Governor, Sir Dominick Daly, and his suite, waited a few minutes before the arrival of his Royal Highness...At the shore e

Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, by two vessels of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Rifleman and H.M.S. Philomel and the Hugh Rose, a vessel from the Bombay Marine service. This engagement took place on 27 March 1874. The fort belonged to Syud Tourkie, the Sultan of Muscat, but had been seized by a rebel chief Ibrahim bin Kais whose followers had plundered the goods of some British subjects at Masnaah. Date: 9 May 1874

Battlefield by William Simpson, Lithograph, watercolor, 1864, 1832-1898, Russia, Sevastopol, State Museum of the Defence of Sevastopol 1854-1855,

Artillery experiments at Picklecombe Fort, Plymouth, 1872. 'The object was to ascertain practically the effect produced by the firing of several heavy guns when mounted on casemated works of modern construction, protected by iron shields, and the facilities with which such guns can be served under the new and improved conditions of shot and powder lifts, magazine and store arrangements, combined with the mechanical appliances recently introduced to facilitate the training and loading of the guns...Picklecombe is a double-tiered and casemated battery, constructed of granite, brick, and iron...I

Avercamp, Hendrick, Amsterdam, Fokke, Simon, North Holland landscapes, The Haarlemmer Meer, Ao 1625, Ice skating on the Haarlemmermeer, 1625, verso - stamped, Ice skating on the Haarlemmermeer. In the foreground fishermen, gentlemen playing kolf and a hunter. Further on lies a frozen ship. In the background skaters and figures being transported by sleigh., print, prints, height 216 mm, width 317 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, printmaker, 1722 - 1784, paper, papier, etching, etsen, Work conception, 1585 - 1634

French troops' assault on Rome at the Porta Cavellegiere is repulsed by Garibaldi's men. Date: May 1849

Sandbag battery for the defence of Alicante Alicante Province Spain during 3rd Carlist War from Illustrated London News November 8 1873

History of Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). Front of Catalonia. Carlist troops under the command of General Juan Antonio Guergué besieged the town of Olot between September and October 1835. Raising of the siege of Olot. Illustration by Francisco Sainz. Engraving by Martínez. Panorama Español, Crónica Contemporánea. Volume III. Madrid, 1845. Author: Francisco Sainz (1823-1853). Spanish artist. Martinez. 19th century-Spanish engraver.

'Coomassie, Ashanti War, Africa', 1900. Artist: Unknown

A Norwegian Viking shipexcavated at Gokstad Date: 1880

Harper's Ferry. The U.S. Marines storming the engine house--Insurgents firing through holes in the doors. Woodcut, ca 1859

View of Union Breastworks on the Cold Harbor Line, June 1, 1864 USA Civil War

Historical illustration of the rescue of shipwrecked people, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original artwork from the 19th century, exact original date unknown, Europe

mail post telegraphy transatlantic telegraph cable laying start at Valentia Ireland 1857 after drawing by Albert Krueger,

Launch of H.M. Steam-Frigate "Leopard", at Deptford, on Tuesday, 1850. Ship being launched on the River Thames in London. 'Mr. Willcox, master shipwright, under whose superintendence the launch took place, ordered the workmen to commence knocking out the dog-shores, and at the same time presented an open bottle of wine, and Captain Sir John Hill having poured out a glass, handed it to Lady Mary Fox, who drank success to the Leopard. The bottle was immediately after decorated with rosettes, and Lady Mary Fox broke it, with the remaining portion of the wine in it, on the bows of the ve

In Baltimore, Maryland, the 7th regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers are attacked by a mob of townspeople who support the Confederacy. Date: 1861

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The new treaty port of Hakodadi, Japan, 1869. Engraving of a sketch by Sub-Lieutenant Sydney Holt, '...an officer of H.M.S. Cormorant, sloop-of-war...which occupies a central position in this view, while the French war-ship Venus lies...at the left-hand corner; his sketch also shows the steam and other vessels of the native rebel government...The town stands on the north-east slope of a peaked peninsula...connected by a low sandy isthmus with the mainland of Yezo...The harbour is guarded by a fort of massive granite walls, surrounded by a moat...and to be armed with fifty-two guns...Hakodadi

Military post, Sackett's Harbor Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson.. Milbert, Jacques Gérard (1766-1840). Eno, Amos F., 1836-1915. Prints. 1828 - 1829. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Military facilities , American , New York (State) , Sackets Harbor (N.Y.), Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) , 1800-1899

Title page illustration of attack on Fort Sumter 1861 first battle of American Civil War from The Great Rebellion by J.T. Headley published by American Publishing Co 1866

The remains of the Bourbaki Army at Forts du Noux and du Larmont near La Cluse, Illustrierte Kriegschronik 1870 - 1871, Illustrated War Chronicle 1870 - 1871, German-French Campaign

The Battle of Lexington, engraving from a contemporary drawing by Ralph Earle, April 19, 1775

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: FRENCH BATTERY LEFT ON MONT-AVRON

'The Turkish Fleet in the Bay of Bujugdere 1854', 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854".

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Siege of Metz (19 August to 27 October 1870). Prussian artillery battery. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1870.

'Majuba', c1900. South Africa. Site of the Battle of Majuba Hill (1881), the final and decisive battle of the First Boer War. Illustration from a photograph. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne

David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish missionary and African explorer, with members of his expedition and his wife and family discovering Lake Ngami, Botswana on l August 1849. Engraving after drawing made on the spot by Alfred Ryder. From 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' by Daivd Livingstone (London, 1815). Engraving.

Engraving depicting the use of an iron post to measure the amount of soil shrinkage since the time of drainage. Dated 19th Century

The American army fought the Modoc Indians at the Lava Beds, California, after the Modoc had killed General Canby and the Rev Dr Thomas at a conference of Modoc chiefs and US Peace Commissioners. Date: 1873

Crimean War 1853-1856: Allied supply ships in the harbour at Balaclava.

Aden, "The Gibraltar of the Red Sea", 1844. View of the geographically strategic port of Aden in the Yemen. Caleb Cushing, United States Ambassador to China, commented: 'In taking possession of Aden, in Arabia,...the English Government has recently acquired a very important military post on the southern shores of Arabia, near to the Straits of Babelmandel, which commands the Red Sea and the Sea of Arabia, as Gibraltar does the Mediterranean and a portion of the Atlantic'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.

Crimean War 1853-1856: Russian evacuation of Sebastopol 11 September 1855.

Fall in for soup - Food line in the American Civil War

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