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Subject Rifles and Muskets Level [40] File

11. C.141.dd.8(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(19)
Title:
Gunner working up to fowl. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across an expanse of shallow tidal water (possibly at Breydon), with a wild-fowler lying in his gun-punt in the foreground: 'No boat is handier, or more perfectly adapted to its special purpose, than the gun-punt. The draught of water being only a few i...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

12. C.141.dd.8(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.141.dd.8(20)
Title:
The fowler's return. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a wildfowler returning with his catch to a crude boatshed on the edge of the broad: '...Our fowler is returning to the boat-shelter where he houses his punt. Another sportsman has come to have a look at the few birds he has bagged, and to compare notes as to...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

13. HS.74/1001, Vol. 2(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
HS.74/1001, Vol. 2(67)
Title:
Pürschbüchsen und Jagdpistolen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert [17th-century hunting ?muskets and hunting pistols]. Photographer: Hanfstängl, Franz
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Group of four pieces, two long-barrelled guns and two pistols.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

14. ORB.30/5374(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
ORB.30/5374(26)
Title:
Arm rack [with rifles] on mule (uncovered) (para.85). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Side view of loaded mule, with an Indian soldier standing on the left and a British soldier on the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1883
Extent:
1 item

15. ORB.30/5374(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
ORB.30/5374(27)
Title:
Arm rack on mule (covered) (para. 85). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Similar to print 26, but with the rack of rifles concealed by a protective canvas cover.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1883
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 1041(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1041(46)
Title:
An Abyssinian soldier. Photographer: Swayne, Harald George Carlos
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '46' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Soldier posed with shield, spear and rifle in the British mission compound at Addis Ababa.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1897-Jun 1897
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 1104(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1104(20)
Title:
Afreedi. N.W.F.P. India. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Holmes 123' and captioned in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of an Afridi man, standing among boulders on a mountainside, armed with a jezail and a curved sword.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 1104(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1104(23)
Title:
The Sniper. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Holmes 131' and captioned in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Study of an Afridi tribesman, crouching behind the shelter of a boulder on a hillside, taking aim with his zejail.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 1104(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1104(24)
Title:
The Watchers. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Holmes 139' and captioned in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Study of two Afridi tribesman, keeping watch on a hillside.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 1188(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(46)
Title:
Looking down the Pei-ho River toward North Fort and bay, from Northwest Fort, Taku, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Pei-ho River in the far distance. Bastions of the Northwest Fort with a breech-loading rifle are in the foreground. A British Marine, in a white uniform, stands to the right holding a Lee-Mitford rifle at his side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item