Items matching armour (results page 1)

Types of Armour The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears, colour

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Added: 2004-02-22

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194.—Ringed Mail. Cotton MS. Claud. B, 4. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An illustration of a Biblical scene but with Anglo-Saxon costumes and weapons. A king (with a long forked breard) wears a crown, brandishes a heavy sword and carries a shield; he wears ring-mail. Next [...]

Keywords: soldiers, royalty, kings, weapons, swords, shields, mail, armour, saxon england, greyscale

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Added: 2011-07-19

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Idler No. 8: George and the Dragon. The Idler (1797)

Saint George, patron saint of England, is seen here wearing full plate mail wielding a mace and about to slay the dragon, together with his two dogs. The image is in an oval cartouche or frame, surmou [...]

Keywords: dragons, knights, weapons, battles, dogs, animals, mythical creatures, wings, armour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-13

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Military Costume, Middle of Fifteenth Century. The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

An archer with a longbow, sword, shiel and arrows; a knight in plate mail armour with a sword; a knight in full armour including a crested helm with pink and white feathers, a short sword or dagger, a [...]

Keywords: soldiers, people, weapons, knights, armour, swords, shields, helmets, costumes, colour, cartici, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2011-05-01

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Costume of Fifteenth Century Pikeman The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A soldier from “Three knights from the 15th century” without the background or border. This man holds a pike, or a cross between an axe and a spear. He also has a longsword at his right hip and a dagg [...]

Keywords: soldiers, costumes, armour, helmets, weapons, pikes, swords, plumes, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-01

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2043.—Musketeer, 1603 Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour.)

Keywords: armour, weapons, people, costumes, soldiers, swords, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-04-05

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2045.—Infantry Armour, 1625 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Armour, on the decline at the close of the last period, continued to be used through the [English] Civil Wars, though it did not exactly justify James I’s characteristic praise—that it not only saved [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, shields, people, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2046.—Pikeman, 1635. (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A soldier from the English Civil war. “The trained bands were the ridicule of the Cavaliers, as being composed of apprentices, artisans, and shopkeepers of London; they were called the “thimble and bo [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, people, helmets, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-12

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2047.—Soldier of Trained Band, 1633 Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“One of our military [wood-]cuts represents a soldier of the Trained Bands, 1638 (Fig. 2047).” (p. 211)

See Fig. 2046 for more detail.

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, guns, hats, beards, weapons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-12

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2048.—Cuirassier, 1645 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

See Fig. 2045.

Keywords: soldiers, people, armour, knights, swords, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2050.—Helmets, 1645. (From Specimens at Goodrich Court.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Helmets worn by soldiers in the English Civil War. See Fig. 2045 for details.

Keywords: armour, weapons, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-28

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Imperishable: Niezguinek and the Crawfish Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen (1896)

The young man Niezguinek, whose name means Imperishable, or, rather, will not die, stands barefoot on the beach talking to the Giant Lobster, or the King of the Crawfish. Strictly speaking, crawfish o [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, people, lobsters, boats, ocean, water, bare feet, armour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-11

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