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Concept

Artillery

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  • The goddess Diana presiding over military figures representing the choleric temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Figures with measuring instruments and a cannon; representing geometry and military science. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • The goddess Diana presiding over military figures representing the choleric temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Truth represented as the word of God assailed by persecution, superstition, tradition, betrayal and violence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A battlefield littered with corpses of soldiers and carcasses of horses during a fierce cavalry battle. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Marie de Medici dressed in warlike form as Minerva, goddess of arts. Engraving by J.B. Massé, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
  • American soldiers loading artillery; analogous to the ravages of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
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    Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 27054i
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    A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 16379i
    Part of: Caricatures politiques
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Artillery: 16th cent.

    | Date: 1559 | Reference: MS.87
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    Marie de Medici dressed in warlike form as Minerva, goddess of arts. Engraving by J.B. Massé, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Date: 1708 | Reference: 26163i
    Part of: Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg.
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Feuer-Buech

    | Date: 1584 | Reference: MS.272
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