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Helmets

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  • A Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Seven uniformed senior British army staff, two of whom are mounted. Chromolithograph, c. 1880.
  • Goliath, covered in splendid armour, towers over the humble David. Engraving.
  • Sallot (?) holding up a tooth and leaning on a grossly oversized set of dentures through which a fleur-de-lis is growing, in the background is a oversized skull wearing a helmet. Coloured wood engraving (?) by Marchandeux after A. Gill, 1867.
  • A soldier with wounded head who has inserted medicinal plants in his helmet. Watercolour.
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    A uniformed soldier from the army medical staff. Watercolour, 1886.

    | Date: 1886 | Reference: 24307i
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    David turns his eyes heaven-ward as he holds the upturned, severed head of Goliath by the hair. Line engraving by G. Garavaglia after I. Migliavacca after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

    Guercino, 1591-1666. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 18551i
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    A wounded soldier is helped on the ground by a medical officer under instruction from a mounted army doctor. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.

    | Date: 1900 | Reference: 24302i
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    A Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 678628i
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    Seven uniformed senior British army staff, two of whom are mounted. Chromolithograph, c. 1880.

    | Date: 1880 | Reference: 24310i
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