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Horse-drawn vehicles

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Images about Horse-drawn vehicles

10 images from works
  • A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A senior German army doctor being driven at speed in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • Malaya: a pony and trap being driven down a country road. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • An open tavern with large archway with drinks being brought to a table of diners and a lady alighting from her phaeton. Coloured aquatint, c. 1800.
  • Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
  • A uniformed British military doctor in front of a Red Cross horse-drawn cart. Chromolithograph, c. 1870.
  • Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
  • Diagrams illustrating military ambulances of Europe and Africa with their interior design and basic equipment. Etching by S. Botta.
  • A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.

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    Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
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    A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

    | Date: 1850 | Reference: 24422i
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    Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

    Cribb, Stephen, 1875-1963. | Date: 24 March 1900 | Reference: 23741i
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    Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.

    Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666-1742. | Reference: 24446i
    Part of: Grosse Schlachtenszenen fuer Lothar Franz Graf von Schoenborn
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    A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 24080i

Related topics

Carriages and carts
Horses
Soldiers
Military Medicine
Litters
Ambulances
Transport of sick and wounded
War victims
Military uniforms
Armies

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