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Courage

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Images from the collections

Images about Courage

13 images from works
  • Multicoloured figures representing people courageously demonstrating solidarity with people with HIV and AIDS during Whitsun (Pentecost) 1988. Colour lithograph.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by W. Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
  • Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward I's arm. Line engraving by Brown after W.M. Craig.
  • Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.
  • A valiant and resolute man (as described by Lavater): profile. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A black woman with glasses wraps her arms around a boy; advertisement by the National Urban League, Inc for those with or affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Beane.
  • A black woman stands in a field with flowers holding a red ribbon above her head with the sun behind; advertisement by the National Urban League, Inc for those with or affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Beane.
  • Battle of Ratisbon: Napoleon, shot in the ankle, mounts his horse to join battle before the dressing of the wound is finished. Coloured engraving after C. Gautherot, 1828.

Works from the collections

22 works

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    Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.

    R., T., active 1878. | Date: 10 February 1883 | Reference: 17940i
    • Books

    What makes a hero? : the surprising science of selflessness / Elizabeth Svoboda.

    Svoboda, Elizabeth | Date: [2013]
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    Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.

    Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807. | Date: 1 March 1780 | Reference: 18578i
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    • Online

    A valiant and resolute man (as described by Lavater): profile. Drawing, c. 1793.

    | Date: c. 1793 | Reference: 31501i
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    • Online

    Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.

    O'Neil, Henry, 1817-1880. | Date: 1846 | Reference: 20812i

Related topics

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Soldiers
Heroes
Poisons
Anxiety
Poisoning
Fear
Edward I of England
Eleanor of Castile
Fear

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