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| Adam Frans van der Meulen Boar Hunt before 1690 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Nicolaes Verkolje and Jan van Huysum Abduction of Proserpine before 1746 oil on panel Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden (scene from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso) ca. 1742-45 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Peter Francis Bourgeois Sea Shore with Rearing Horse ca. 1792 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Sawrey Gilpin Gulliver reprimanded and silenced by his Master when describing the Horrors of War ca. 1805 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
from Gulliver's Travels
"I could not forbear shaking my head, and smiling at his ignorance. And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses' feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcasses, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying. And to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators."
"I was going on to more particulars, when my master commanded me silence. . . . He added that he had heard too much upon the subject of war, both in this and some former discourses."
– Jonathan Swift (1726)
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| Peeter Gysels Flemish Village with River View before 1691 oil on copper Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Corrado Giaquinto Venus presenting Arms to Aeneas before 1765 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Luca Giordano The Cave of Eternity ca. 1685 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Januarius Zick Christ healing the Sick before 1797 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Francisco Goya A Picnic (tapestry cartoon) ca. 1785-90 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Diana and Nymphs ca. 1650-1700 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| David Teniers the Younger Harvest Scene before 1690 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Claude Lorrain View of Delphi with a Procession 1673 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jan Baptist Huysmans and Jan Erasmus Quellinus Ruined Classical Archway ca. 1690 oil on canvas National Trust, Philipps House, Wiltshire |
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| Nathan Drake The New Terrace Walk, York 1756 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |