All-Out Brawl

Battle scenes packed edge to edge — soldiers, smoke, and no empty ground.

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Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt · 1653

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

The Zouave

Vincent van Gogh · ca. June 20, 1888

Battle of the Nude Men

Antonio del Pollaiuolo · ca. 1470–90

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico · ca. 1420–23

Satire on Art Criticism

Rembrandt · 1644

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer · n.d.

The Turkish Family

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1496

1807, Friedland

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier · ca. 1861–75

The Burial of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800

The Crucifixion

Francesco Granacci · ca. 1510

Otto, Count of Nassau and his Wife Adelheid van Vianen

Bernard van Orley · 1530–35

The Rogues March

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher · Thomas Tegg · Joseph Bonaparte · Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Rowlandson · April 12, 1814

The Magnanimous Minister, Chastising Prussian Perfidy.–vide–Morning Chronicle April 28th

James Gillray · Hannah Humphrey · May 2, 1806

The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris

Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Rowlandson · Rudolph Ackermann, London · April 16, 1815

Hell Hounds Rallying Round the Idol of France

Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Rowlandson · Rudolph Ackermann, London · April 8, 1815

The Battle-Array of Carberry-hill near Edinburgh with the Surrender of Mary Queen of Scots to the Confederate Lords of Scotland, and the Escape of Earl Bothwell

Mary, Queen of Scots · George Vertue · John Oliver · Livinus de Vogelaare · Robert Peake the Elder · 1742

The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · December 10, 1813

The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · April 16, 1815

Scene in a New Pantomime to be Performed at the Theatre Royal Paris

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · April 12, 1815

Christ Presented to the People

Rembrandt · 1655

The Entombment

Rembrandt · ca. 1654

State Butchers

William Pitt · Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville · Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton · Thomas Rowlandson · Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney · George, Prince of Wales · January 28, 1789

An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election

William Hogarth · February 1755

The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver

William Hogarth · Jonathan Swift · December 1726

The Political Clyster

William Hogarth · Robert Sayer · January 1757

King Joe's Reception at Madrid

Joseph Bonaparte · George Murgatroyd Woodward · Thomas Rowlandson · Thomas Tegg · August 21, 1808

Transparency: Exhibited at R. Ackermann's in the Strand on the 27th November 1815, the Day on which the General Peace was Celebrated in London

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher · Thomas Rowlandson · Louis XVIII, King of France · Napoléon Bonaparte · November 27, 1815

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 238, cover)

Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · Harper & Brothers · Anonymous, American, 19th century · July 20, 1861

The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–38

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna · before 1475

Boxers

Théodore Géricault · 1818

The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris

Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt · Thomas Rowlandson · Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · December 4, 1813

Mock Auction or Boney Selling Stolen Goods

Empress Marie Louise of France · Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt · Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · December 25, 1813

Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant

Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt · Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Tegg · Empress Marie Louise of France · Thomas Rowlandson · April 14, 1811