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Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
Le Par.Date: [23 June 1855]Reference: 21052i
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A group of people standing around a man having an epileptic fit. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.Reference: 18630i
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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.
Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666-1742.Reference: 24446i
Part of: Grosse Schlachtenszenen fuer Lothar Franz Graf von Schoenborn
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Boer War: collecting the wounded from the battlefield using newly invented ambulance transport. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Craig.
Craig, Frank, 1874-1918.Reference: 22281i
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Peter cures the sick by casting his shadow upon them. Engraving by C.J. Visscher (?) after M. van Heemskerck.
Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574.Reference: 24792i
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Hindostanee Doolie used as an ambulanceman, India. Wood engraving by J. Abenwell.
Abenwell, J.Reference: 20706i
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A man of high rank in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 1800-1809Reference: 37130i
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Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
Reference: 18364i
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Ashanti War, Ghana, 1874: a wounded officer of the 42nd Highlanders being carried to a field hospital. Wood engraving after Melton Prior, 1874.
Prior, Melton, 1845-1910.Date: 1874Reference: 20784i
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A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 24080i
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The sick are brought to Christ at Gennesaret by the sea. Etching, 1834, after J-B. Jouvenet.
Jouvenet, Jean, 1644-1717.Date: 1834Reference: 23914i
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Four men carrying a long palanquin, preceded by guards and attendants. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582533i
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World War One: a mounted Cossack ambulance convoy using horses as stretcher-bearers. Halftone after F. de Haenen, 1916, after a sketch by H. Seppings Wright.
Haenen, F. de (Frédéric de), 1853-1928.Date: 19 February 1916Reference: 24082i
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Specification of Barthelemy Louis François Xavier Fléchelle : litter and bed for invalids.
Fléchelle, Barthelemy Louis François Xavier.Date: 1854
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Two travellers and a patient on a stretcher travel towards the baths at Cauquenes, Chile. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf.
Paroissien, General.Reference: 16476i
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One of the seven Acts of Mercy: burying the dead. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
Bourdon, Sébastien, 1616-1671.Reference: 18133i
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A paralysed man is lowered down through the roof so Christ can reach him through the crowds. Wood engraving by A. Gaber.
Reference: 23854i
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An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.
Reference: 24324i
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A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 20088i
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8th Xhosa War: British soldiers bearing a wounded man on a stretcher and supplies through jungle. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
Date: 1852Reference: 24326i
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Indian men carrying a European officer in a palanquin. Gouache by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 778052i
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World War Two: converted first aid station in the Raffles theatre, Singapore, 1942, during aerial bombardment. Wash drawing by L. Rawlings, 1943.
Rawlings, Leo, -1990.Date: 1943Reference: 24390i
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Boer War: removing the wounded after the Battle of Elandslaagte. Process print after W. Devar.
Devar, W., active 1900-1901.Reference: 22136i
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World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
Mackey, Haydn Reynolds, 1881-1979.Date: [1918?]Reference: 645143i
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Specification of Alexander Prince : litters.
Prince, Alexander.Date: 1871