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Horse-drawn vehicles

Vehicle pulled by horse; mechanized piece of equipment pulled by one horse or by a team of horses

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Images referencing Horse-drawn vehicles

9 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.
  • 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.

    Hippolyte Lecomte | 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.

    Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder | Reference: 24446i
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    A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 24080i
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Related topics

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

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