Plate 2: A cannon to the left, a town in the background, from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

A cannon to the left, a town in the background, plate 2 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella, Pierre Mariette le fils

Plate 6: battery of cannons firing on a city, from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella, F. L'Anglois [Ciartres]

Battery of cannons firing on a city, plate 6 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella, Pierre Mariette le fils

An officer giving orders to a soldier in centre foreground, cannon at left, plate 3 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella, Pierre Mariette le fils

Plate 6: A battery of cannons firing on a town, from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella, François Langlois

Plate 3: An officer giving orders to a soldier in centre foreground, cannon at left, from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano della Bella, François Langlois

Plate 10: a soldier charging a cannon in center, other soldiers with picks standing at left and right, from "Troops, cannons, and attacks on towns" (Dessins de quelques conduites de troupes, canons, et ataques de villes)

Stefano della Bella, Israël Henriet

Watch-Tower on a River, from Landscapes (Playsante Lantschappen)

Claes Jansz. Visscher, II

An 1870 landscape, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, December 10, 1870

Honoré Daumier

L'Exercice du Canon: Le Pointage (Drill of the Cannon: The Checking), from "Les Exercices Militaires" (The Military Exercises)

Jacques Callot, Israël Henriet

A mortar without a carriage lying on the ground to the right, soldiers firing cannons creating clouds of smoke in the background, from "Equipment needed for Fortification" (Recueil de diverses pièces très nécessaires à la fortification)

Stefano della Bella, Israël Henriet

L'Exercice du Canon: La Preparation (Drill of the Cannon: The Preparation), from "Les Exercices Militaires" (The Military Exercises)

Jacques Callot, Israël Henriet