Cannonball Collection

Plants bearing fruits and seeds
Plants bearing berries and seeds including guava, membrillo, brazil nut, mistletoe, spotted laurel, cannonball tree, cactus, eucalyptus, myrtle, clove, caraway, coriander, hemlock, cumin, etc

CRIMEAN WAR: VALLEY OF DEATH. The Valley of the Shadow of Death. A dirt road scattered with cannonballs following the Battle of Balaklava; the image was contemporarily associated with the Charge of

Anthony Payne The Cornish Giant, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet (1646-1723)
Oil on canvas, English School, 1680. Anthony Payne (circa 1612-1691), The Cornish Giant, was 7 foot, 4 inches tall. He was a yeoman of Stratton and was the personal retainer to Sir Bevill Grenville

Boney at Bayonne blowing a Spanish bubble, 1808
1575100 Boney at Bayonne blowing a Spanish bubble, 1808; (add.info.: Boney at Bayonne blowing a Spanish bubble. Print shows Napoleon convincing the Spanish royalty, who are enclosed in a bubble)

Soldiers, archers and artillery gunners in a castle siege, 15th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico
FLO4622922 Soldiers, archers and artillery gunners in a castle siege, 15th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient

U.S.S. Richmond, church services, between 1890 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Richmond, church services, between 1890 and 1901

Engagement between the "Bourbonnais" Neapolitan steam-frigate and the ship-gun battery... 1860
Engagement between the "Bourbonnais" Neapolitan steam-frigate and the ship-gun battery, Faro, August 23 - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860

The Revolution in Sicily - discovery of a train leading to the powder magazine at the fort... 1860. Creator: F. J. S
The Revolution in Sicily - discovery of a train leading to the powder magazine at the fort of Melazzo - from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860

Kowloon Fort, opposite Hong-Kong, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Kowloon Fort, opposite Hong-Kong, 1857. Even in their guns the Chinese show their fondness for colour; those of Kowloon Fort being black, with red muzzles and mouldings

Still life with implements of war, c.1635-c.1645. Creator: Jan Jansz Buesem
Still life with implements of war, c.1635-c.1645

Emblems of War. Creator: Jan van Kessel
Emblems of War, unknown date

The Dutch fleet under Admiral Opdam passes the Sound on 29 Oct 1658 during the Swedish War, 1872
The Dutch fleet under Admiral Opdam passes the Sound on 29 October 1658 during the Swedish War 1657-60, 1872. (The Dutch naval squadron, having defeated the Swedish fleet)

The Batte of the Alma - painted by Horace Vernet, 1856. Creator: Henry Duff Linton
The Batte of the Alma - painted by Horace Vernet, 1856. Crimean War scene:..a Zouave and a Highlander, both wounded, and trudging away from the fight, evidently savage that they are disabled

Posthumous Portrait of Aucke Stellingwerff, Admiral of Friesland, Killed 1665 at Lowestoft... 1670
Posthumous Portrait of Aucke Stellingwerff, Admiral of Friesland, Killed in 1665 at Lowestoft by a Cannonball, 1670

Un inventeur qui craint que son fonds ne luis reste... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un inventeur qui craint que son fonds ne luis reste... 19th century

Magnus Stenbock Surrenders the Fortress of Tonningen to Frederik IV in 1714, 1785. Creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
Magnus Stenbock Surrenders the Fortress of Tonningen to Frederik IV in 1714, 1785

Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore, 1781-1782. Creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore, 1781-1782

The Balance of Power, 1854. Creator: George Cruikshank
The Balance of Power, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

Grand Military Trophy, at the Concerts for the Benefit of the Patriotic Fund, in the Town... 1854. Creator: Unknown
Grand Military Trophy, at the Concerts for the Benefit of the Patriotic Fund, in the Town-Hall, Birmingham, 1854. Event during the Crimean war, featuring a display...designed and arranged by Mr

Russian pony and sheep from Bomarsund, brought by Captain Hall, H.M.S. "Hecla", 1854. Creator: Unknown
Russian pony and sheep from Bomarsund, brought by Captain Hall, H.M.S. "Hecla", 1854. Animals and war trophies taken from Finland during the Crimean War by a British naval officer

Spahi (Algerian Troops), French Battery on the Heights of Balaclava - from a sketch by... 1854. Creator: Unknown
Spahi (Algerian Troops), French Battery on the Heights of Balaclava - from a sketch by Lieutenant Montagu O'Reilly, 1854. Crimean War

Meeting of Parliament, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of Parliament, 1854. State opening of the British parliament during the Crimean War....Her Majesty [Queen [Victoria] opened Parliament in person

The Siege of Sebastopol - the Rifles in the Trenches, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - the Rifles in the Trenches, 1854. Crimean War. The latest accounts from the English Camp inform us that our riflemen in the trenches continue to pick off the Russian gunners

"The Trafalgar" and "Retribution" at the Siege of Sebastopol - from a sketch by Lieutenant... 1854
"The Trafalgar" and "Retribution" at the Siege of Sebastopol - from a sketch by Lieutenant Montagu O'Reilly, 1854. Crimean War: Royal Navy ships

The Allied Troops preparing to silence Inkerman, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Allied Troops preparing to silence Inkerman, 1854. Crimean War, extract from Lord Raglan's dispatch: The morning was extremely dark, with a drizzling rain

The Siege of Sebastopol - Gordon's Attack with a Lancaster Gun, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - Gordon's Attack with a Lancaster Gun, 1854. Crimean War: British soldiers with heavy artillery:..on the crest of a precipice, is a one-gun battery

Opening of the Bombardment of Sebastopol - Chapman's Battery, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the Bombardment of Sebastopol - Chapman's Battery, 1854. Crimean War. The Russian fire, though well directed

Siege of Sebastopol - Preparing a Train for the Trenches, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Siege of Sebastopol - Preparing a Train for the Trenches, 1854. Crimean War: British Army position. Sebastopol will fall, no one doubts it - the question is only one of time...It is satisfactory...to

Lancaster's Oval Cannon, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Lancaster's Oval Cannon, 1854. Cannon with oval bore intended to project spherical case shot. 1. Horizontal Longitudinal Section of Gun. 2. Vertical Longitudinal Section of Gun. 3

Arab Tabia, Silistria, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Arab Tabia, Silistria, 1854. Crimean War. Interior of Arab Tabia, as it remains since the 25th of June, when the siege of Silistria was abandoned by the Russians...View of Arab Tabia and Illanli

Interior of the Fort of Chanak-Kalessi, on the Asiatic Side of the Dardanelles... 1854. Creator: Unknown
Interior of the Fort of Chanak-Kalessi, on the Asiatic Side of the Dardanelles - sketched by Lieutenant M. O'Reilly, 1854. Cannon and soldiers of the Ottoman Empire

The Dardanelles - the Battery and Stone Shot, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Dardanelles - the Battery and Stone Shot, 1850. View of...the battery from which the stone shot are discharged [at] the Fort of Chanah-Kalesi, [in modern Turkey]

Major-General Scott, 1849. Creator: Unknown
Major-General Scott, 1849. American soldier Winfield Scott served in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War

Zazel, Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London
Zazel (Rossa Matilda Richter), female acrobatic performer and human cannonball, at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London, with verses from Punch magazine. 1877

Turkey. Camp of the Daud Pasha
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Camp of the Daud Pasha. Engraving by Lemaitre. Lalaisse and Branche. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

Modern age. Imperial artillery (from the Bologna Procession). Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Weaponry, Middle Ages. Bombard. Engraving by Serra
Bombard. Cannon used throughout the Middle Ages an the Early Modern Period. Engraving by Serra. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

The Ball Runner (litho)
6000153 The Ball Runner (litho) by Fidus (Hugo Hoppener) (1868-1948); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Ball Runner. Illustration from Jugend)

Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia, April 1863. Creator: Alexander Gardner
Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia, April 1863. Albumen print, pl. 91 from the album " Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the War, volume ii" (1866)

Lunette - Massachusetts State Seal, c. 1937. Creator: Jane Iverson
Lunette - Massachusetts State Seal, c. 1937

Sir Henry William Barnard (1799-1857), General, Chief of Staff; Taken at the Crimea, 1855. A work made of thinly albumenized print

The Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, 1855. Creator: Roger Fenton
The Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, 1855. A work made of salted paper print, from the album " photographic pictures of the seat of war in the crimea" (1856)

View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo)... ca. 1756
View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, ca. 1756. From Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

The Privateersmen (colour litho)
3643072 The Privateersmen (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Privateersmen. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Capture of Fort Fisher, pub. 1887 (colour litho)
3090435 Capture of Fort Fisher, pub. 1887 (colour litho) by Davidson, Julian Oliver (1853-94) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Union troops led by General Alfred Howe Terry (1827-90)

Today a Man Has Fallen Who Did Honour to Man, illustration from
STC292440 Today a Man Has Fallen Who Did Honour to Man, illustration from The Story of France Told to Boys and Girls by Mary MacGregor, 1920 (colour litho) by Rainey

Rebellion in Venice, March 1848, illustration from an album on the history of
REV287623 Rebellion in Venice, March 1848, illustration from an album on the history of Risorgimento made for the chocolate Talmone, late 19th century (chromolitho) by Italian School

Fort Sumter, Interior View of Three Gun Battery, December 1863 (engraving) (b&w photo)
BAL124118 Fort Sumter, Interior View of Three Gun Battery, December 1863 (engraving) (b&w photo) by Key, John Ross (1832-1920) (after); Private Collection; American, out of copyright

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"Cannonball: A Journey Through History, Warfare, and Entertainment" From plants bearing fruits and seeds to the Crimean War's Valley of Death, the concept of a cannonball has traversed various realms throughout history. In Anthony Payne's painting "The Cornish Giant, " we witness Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet holding a cannonball with an air of power. This symbolizes the might and devastation that such projectiles brought during wars like the one in Turkey's Camp of Daud Pasha. As time progressed into the modern age, imperial artillery showcased its prowess during processions like those seen in Bologna. Engravings by Serra depict weaponry from the Middle Ages, including bombards capable of launching massive cannonballs. These deadly projectiles were not limited to warfare alone; they found their way into entertainment as well. Zazel at London's Royal Aquarium became famous for her daring stunts as a human cannonball. However, even she faced mishaps like losing her knickers mid-air. Such incidents added an element of excitement and unpredictability to this exhilarating act. Yet amidst all these historical references lies a poignant reminder of darker times. The breach at Delhi's Kashmiri Gate in 1857 serves as a haunting image depicting violence and rebellion during India's struggle for independence. Even convicts from around 1840 were depicted in color lithographs with chains attached – perhaps hinting at how some individuals met their fate through punishment involving cannons or other means. However varied its contexts may be, there is no denying that the concept of a cannonball has left an indelible mark on our collective consciousness. From warfare to entertainment spectacles like Zazel's performances or even artistic depictions by renowned painters – it continues to captivate our imagination while reminding us both of humanity’s destructive tendencies and its ability to create awe-inspiring feats throughout history.