Lowering Collection

The Laying in the Tomb ( The Deposition / The Entombment ), 1602-16044. Artist: Michelangelo Caravaggio
The Laying in the Tomb ( The Deposition / The Entombment ), 1602-1604. Mary of Clopas with her arms raised; Mary Magdalene with bowed head; Nicodemus grasps the legs of the dead Christ

Mass Production
Full-length image of auto workers lowering the body of a Model T onto its chassis on an assembly line ramp outdoors at the Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan

The Surrender of the German Fleet at Sunset on November 21, 1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
The Surrender of the German Fleet at Sunset on November 21, 1918, (c1920). German sailors lower the Imperial battle flag on one of the battleships after the First World War armistice

Patriotic Greek Card from the First World War - Thessaloniki
Patriotic Greek Card from the First World War showing the Greeks triumphing over the Turks - including one atop the White Tower at Thessaloniki. Date: 1916

Lowering the Ensign at Sunset, c1890-c1893. Artist: William Christian Symons
Lowering the Ensign at Sunset, c1890-c1893. A print from Her Majestys Navy Including its Deeds and Battles, by Lieut Chas Rathbone Low, Volume III, JS Virtue & Co, London, 1890-1893

John Dickson's method of raising and lowering paddle wheels of a steamboat, 1850
3359466 John Dickson's method of raising and lowering paddle wheels of a steamboat, 1850; (add.info.: Engraving of John Dickson's method of raising and lowering paddle wheels of a steamboat)

Throwing an earthenware vessel. Belt-driven wheel of type used at Wedgwood & Copeland factories
531827 Throwing an earthenware vessel. Belt-driven wheel of type used at Wedgwood & Copeland factories . Speed of wheel regulated by boy by raising or lowering belt on conical drums

Italian Offensive of the Isonzo; Boats are lowered on a slide of the riverbank escarpment, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Italian Offensive of the Isonzo; Boats are lowered on a slide of the riverbank escarpment, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

At sea; Shipwreck survivors hoist themselves aboard the lifeboat, 1917. Creator: Unknown
At sea; Shipwreck survivors hoist themselves aboard the lifeboat, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: William H. Jackson
Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910

Fugitives - An Episode of the Siege of Athens by Sylla. After Leon Glaize, 1877, 1886. Creator: Kellenbach
Fugitives - An Episode of the Siege of Athens by Sylla. After Leon Glaize, 1877, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Lowering Hard Labor Convicts down a Shaft of the Savinsk Mine, Gornyi Zerentui... 1891. Creator: Aleksei Kuznetsov
Lowering Hard Labor Convicts down a Shaft of the Savinsk Mine, Gornyi Zerentui Section of the Nerchinsk Mining District, 1891

WW2 - Minesweeper Apparatus
A photograph depicting some British WW2 merchant seamen lowering some sweeping apparatus from the deck of a minesweeper to sea, by crane. Date: circa 1942

Entombment of Christ (bronze)
JFS249962 Entombment of Christ (bronze) by Spanish School, (15th century); Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe, Caceres, Estremadura

Mountaineering accident on Mont Blanc (colour litho)
2779749 Mountaineering accident on Mont Blanc (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mountaineering accident on Mont Blanc)

Un Pirate (engraving)
2789267 Un Pirate (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Un Pirate. Illustration for Journal Des Voyages, 18 January 1879)

Female Nude (oil on canvas)
1768924 Female Nude (oil on canvas) by Lebasque, Henri (1865-1937); 65.7x44.1 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Female Nude; Femme Nue. Henri Lebasque (1865-1937). Oil on canvas

Top of the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building (1931), 1931; 1939 (gelatin silver print)
991497 Top of the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building (1931), 1931; 1939 (gelatin silver print) by Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940); 34.29x26.67 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Heroic rescue of a boy who fell into the River Thames from Chelsea Embankment, London (litho)
6014274 Heroic rescue of a boy who fell into the River Thames from Chelsea Embankment, London (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The Athenian Fugitives (litho)
5997111 The Athenian Fugitives (litho) by Glaize, Pierre-Paul-Leon (1842-1932); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Athenian Fugitives)

The Naval Mobilisation, Big Gun and Torpedo Practice on Board H Ms "Hero"and "Rodney"(engraving)
1041826 The Naval Mobilisation, Big Gun and Torpedo Practice on Board H Ms " Hero" and " Rodney" (engraving) by Nash

Fetching Down the Bell in the War I, 1917 (etching)
1067236 Fetching Down the Bell in the War I, 1917 (etching) by Aimon, TavAik FrantiAaek (1877-1942); 15.9x11.8 cm; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA; gift of Stephen S. Kahn; Czech, out of copyright

Seven Hundred Miles in the "Berthon"Collapsible Lifeboat (engraving)
1061071 Seven Hundred Miles in the " Berthon" Collapsible Lifeboat (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

St. Paul let down by night in a basket from the walls of Damascus
CTS366768 St. Paul let down by night in a basket from the walls of Damascus (pen & brown ink with wash on paper) by Vaga, Perino del (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (1501-47)

A group of navvies discovering a soldier trapped underground for 28 days (colour litho)
2819168 A group of navvies discovering a soldier trapped underground for 28 days (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Removal of another Obelisk from Alexandria, for Transport to New York (engraving)
1613968 Removal of another Obelisk from Alexandria, for Transport to New York (engraving) by Wilson, Thomas Harrington (fl.1842-86) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

New Contrivance for the Rapid Raising or Lowering of Captive Balloons in the German Army (litho)
1598105 New Contrivance for the Rapid Raising or Lowering of Captive Balloons in the German Army (litho) by Wright, Henry Charles Seppings (1850-1937); Private Collection; (add.info)

Two workers lowering a window pane. Date: circa 1942

The Burial of Saint Petronilla (oil on canvas) (b / w photo)
ALI136321 The Burial of Saint Petronilla (oil on canvas) (b/w photo) by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666); Pinacoteca Capitolina, Palazzo Conservatori, Rome, Italy; Alinari

MS 3 Fol. 291v The Escape of Saint Paul from Damascus, illuminated initial letter
NUL130950 MS 3 Fol. 291v The Escape of Saint Paul from Damascus, illuminated initial letter P, 13th century, from the Avranches Bible (vellum) by French School

The Presentation, or Wise Mens Offering, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1796
NCO190493 The Presentation, or Wise Mens Offering, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1796 (hand-coloured etching) by Gillray, James (1757-1815); Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College

Rescue of an attempted suicide at the bridge in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris (colour litho)
2818958 Rescue of an attempted suicide at the bridge in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris (colour litho) by Meyer, Henri (1841-99) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Lifting in the boilers (litho)
3622175 Lifting in the boilers (litho) by Lacy, Charles John de (c.1860-1936) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lifting in the boilers)

Armament of HMS Northampton in Chatham Dockyard, lowering an 18-Ton Gun into the Battery (engraving)
1590025 Armament of HMS Northampton in Chatham Dockyard, lowering an 18-Ton Gun into the Battery (engraving) by Overend, William Heysham (1851-98) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Standard bearer lowering flag, WW1
Standard bearer lowering his flag in mourning, First World War. Drawing by Hermann Paul. 1914-1918

PROTESTANTS ROASTED
Henri II orders Calvinist protestants to be hanged and burned, lowering them on ropes into the fire, pulling them up again, and so on, until they are well and truly roasted Date: 1558

Cleopatras Needle, presented by the Khedive to the United States (engraving)
1045226 Cleopatras Needle, presented by the Khedive to the United States (engraving) by Boot, William Henry James (1848-1918) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cleopatras Needle)

Pulling down the obelisk from Luxor Temple, from Campagne Pittoresque de Luxor
JHG194729 Pulling down the obelisk from Luxor Temple, from Campagne Pittoresque de Luxor, 1835 (engraving) (b/w photo) by Joannis, Leon de (fl.1835); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; French

"A Man Overboard!", New System of lowering and detaching Ships Boats (engraving)
1098637 " A Man Overboard!", New System of lowering and detaching Ships Boats (engraving) by Weedon, Edwin (1819-79); Private Collection; (add.info.: " A Man Overboard)

The Spanish-American War: capture of a merchant ship (colour litho)
2818880 The Spanish-American War: capture of a merchant ship (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Spanish-American War: capture of a merchant ship)

MS 11060-11061 Hours of the Cross: Vespers, the Descent from the Cross (vellum)
STC67630 MS 11060-11061 Hours of the Cross: Vespers, the Descent from the Cross (vellum) by Hesdin, Jacquemart de (fl.1380-1411); Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Brussels

Diagram to explain the workings of a magic trick (engraving) (b / w photo)
XJF136774 Diagram to explain the workings of a magic trick (engraving) (b/w photo) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

The Descent of Jesus from the Cross (colour litho)
5226661 The Descent of Jesus from the Cross (colour litho) by Fugel, Gebhard (1863-1939); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Descent of Jesus from the Cross)

Jack Sheppard in company with Edgeworth Bess, escaping from Clerkenwell Prison
2636991 Jack Sheppard in company with Edgeworth Bess, escaping from Clerkenwell Prison, illustration from Jack Sheppard: A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

Lowering blocks of marble (chromolitho)
3631123 Lowering blocks of marble (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lowering blocks of marble)

Lowering the ensign at sunset (colour litho)
2775653 Lowering the ensign at sunset (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lowering the ensign at sunset)

La Chasse Aux Pingouins (engraving)
2783130 La Chasse Aux Pingouins (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: La Chasse Aux Pingouins)

L Embarquement Des Elephants (engraving)
2783105 L Embarquement Des Elephants (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: L Embarquement Des Elephants)

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"Lowering: A Journey Through Time and Emotion" Step into the world of art and history as we explore the concept of "lowering" through various captivating moments. From Michelangelo Caravaggio's masterpiece, "The Laying in the Tomb, " to the unknown artist's depiction of "The Surrender of the German Fleet at Sunset on November 21, 1918, " each piece tells a unique story. In Caravaggio's painting, we witness the solemn act Christ into his final resting place. The emotions are palpable as grief and sorrow fill every brushstroke. Similarly, in William Christian Symons' artwork titled "Lowering the Ensign at Sunset, " a sense of melancholy surrounds us as we witness sailors paying tribute to their fallen comrades. Moving beyond paintings, mass production takes center stage with patriotic Greek cards from World War I depicting Thessaloniki. These cards symbolize unity and resilience amidst turmoil while reminding us that even during war, humanity finds solace in shared patriotism. As we delve deeper into history, World War II unveils its own tale through images such as minesweeper apparatuses used to protect naval vessels from hidden dangers beneath turbulent waters. This technological advancement showcases how lowering risks became crucial for victory on both land and sea. However, not all instances are associated with warfare or tragedy. The serene beauty captured in "Town by the Water" transports us to idyllic landscapes where nature itself seems to lower its pace for peaceful contemplation. Yet life is unpredictable; disasters strike when least expected. In an episode depicted by an unknown creator titled "To The Rescue - An Episode of a Colliery Disaster, " brave souls lower themselves into treacherous depths to save lives amid chaos and devastation. Sometimes it is not human lives but animals that need rescuing. Lowering becomes an act filled with hope and compassion when witnessing engravings like "Lowering the Bull.