Images from the collections

Images about Drowning

26 images from works
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • Punishments of Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • Stories of the Royal Humane Society / by Frank Mundell.
  • Important recommendations to rescuers / Royal Life Saving Society.
  • The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
  • A male dwarf sexually aroused by a sleeping female dwarf. Coloured etching by M. Engelbrecht, after 1715.
  • A woman is swept away by the tempestuous deluge; a small company of people on a hill try to save themselves; a serpent slithers beside them. Mezzotint after J. Martin.
  • A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.
  • A prince, clad in gold, succeeds the King; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.

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