Historical • People

Ancient history to modern history and historical themed illustrations. Photo-realistic digital paintings, realistic drawings and stylised art

The head and shoulders of a Viking warrior, wielding a bloody war axe wearing an iron helmet with chainmail and protective clothing, a shield at his back, cut to white. Photorealistic digital painting, historical illustration.
A selection of stylized colourful paintings depicting ancient Roman life, including a family gathered at a table eating outside; an olive grove with baskets of fresh olives; an atruim with pool and statues in a Roman villa of status; five Roman soldiers standing talking; and a tanner and his son, craftsmen working. Realistic historical illustration.
Richard the Lionheart, Richard I, King of England riding his rearing trusty steed, wielding his sword and red shield decorated with three golden lions, wearing a helmet and chainmail, a red cape billowing out from his shoulders. A chivalrous medieval king and great military leader and warrior of the late 12th century. Photorealistic digital painting, cut to white, historical illustration.
Historical illustration of the Victorian Firefly 2-2-2 Steam Locomotive used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway from 1840. Photorealistic digital painting of the train in front of Victorian style blueprint drawings and text on aged paper background. Technical illustration.
Against blue sky and sand, a 3D cutaway illustration of The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, revealing the complete internal structure. Around the outside is a workforce of Egyptian stonemasons and builders constructing the pyramid. A realistic historical painting bringing the ancient world to life. There is a circle inset, an enlarged section showing the workers moving the huge blocks of stone. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the only one to remain largely intact.
A selection of line drawings depicting ancient Moroccan construction showing building methods and the tools used including a cross-section of a building, different two-handed, two-person saws, shaving wood, pattern cutting and making bricks from a mud pool. Museum exhibit panel artworks. Historical illustration.
A montage of eight aircraft in flight, in blue sky bright white cloud, flying firsts, air pioneers. Wright Brothers Flier, 1st Howard flight in 1903; Spirit of St Louis, first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927; Lockheed Vega, new record trip around the globe in 1933; Heinkel 178, the first jet, 1939; Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, the first plane to fly faster that the speed of sound in 1947; the first Boeing 747, Pan Am Clipper Queen of the Skies in 1969; Aeroflot TU 144, first supersonic passenger service in 1975; and the NASA X-43, the first unmanned hypersonic aircraft breaking the speed record in 2001. Techical illustration.
The head and shoulders of a Greek Hoplite / Hoplon soldier, wielding his spear and decorated shield, wearing battle armour, polished helmet with red plume. Photorealistic digital painting, cut to white, ancient historical illustration.
Historical maritime map artwork of Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland, for a magazine feature on the area's history and the scuttled German fleet of military vessels after WWI in 1919. Topographical illustration.
A selection of stylized colourful paintings depicting ancient mediterranean life, Roman-Greek, including a slave girl with a water jug at a fountain; a man pouring a sack of grain into a pot, a woman grinding grain and a man tending the fire at a bread oven; a a slave girl making bread; a man singing and playing the lyre; a workshop with many tools of the trade, craftsmen, men and boys woodworking, stacking and arranging hand made wooden products; and an interior temple scene with people praying. Realistic historical illustration.
Realistic greyscale pencil drawings depicting the Great Depression of the 1930s, showing a New York Wall Street/Nassau Street sign; a family packing a car, fleeing the California dustbowl famine of the South Western Great Plains; a Hooverville shack at one of the many homeless encampments of 1930s America; South African gold cart representing South Africa being saved from collapse by the gold mining industry as the price of gold rose rapidly at the time; Chilean miners queuing at a soup kitchen, as Chile was the worst affected nation and many soup kitchens sprang up in Santiago; a Soviet Union factory as Russian manufacturing grew while the West suffered; Burning sacks of coffee indicating the Brazilian coffee market crash, resulting in a massive surplus of coffee being destroyed. Historical illustrations.
Historical scene, a depiction of an ancient football game called Cuju, played during the Chinese Han Dynastry around 2000 years ago. Photorealistic digital painting showing a group of players, drummers in the sidelines and temple buildings in the background. Historical sport illustration.
The Mayflower Ship on the sea with small boats ferrying the first English Puritans, pilgrims to the New World, America in 1620. Bird's eye view showing the ship's deck and sails from above. Realistic digital painting, technical, historical illustration.
World War II 1940s style artwork for 'Girl in the Hat Shop' historical novel. Colourful, stylized, atmospheric, themed illustration, design and typography. A hat stand within the shop with a ladies head wearing a feathered hat, facing, looking out of the window at the London skyline illuminated by bomb explosions. Book jacket art, historical illustration. Design and InDesign layout, Maj Jackson-Carter.
Atmospheric, colourful historical scene of Egyptian men in the process of mummifying a body in a torchlit chamber room. Photorealistic digital painting, ancient history illustration.
Notable people from history, Gandhi, Lenin, Henry Morgan, Emperor Komei, Blackbeard, Tokugawa Shogun, Napoleon, Henry VIII, John Hawkins and Martin Luther. Realistic historical illustrations.
The ancient Greek world depicted on six different pots. Greek art on vases, portraying olympians, marathon runners, discus thrower; sailing warship; poseidonia, temples, architecture; spartan warrior, hoplite soldier; and theatre masks. Photorealistic digital painting, historical illustration.
Ancient Roman scene in the Colosseum ring at the end of a gladiator fight the winning gladiator pointing his sword at a fallen man on the ground. With a humorous twist, the Roman Emperor in the foreground is wearing a huge red sponge hand, signalling a thumb's down to the winner. Photorealistic digital painting, historical illustration.
A historical scene of the earliest California mission, Santa Barbara, c.1786, showing the square compound building with monks in the open courtyard garden within, and life immediately surrounding the compound, Chumash indians and straw huts, farmed animals in open pens with huts, historical anthropological illustration.
Historical scene, a depiction of life at the ancient multi-level underground city at Cappadocia, Derinkuyu, Turkey. A realistic cutaway painting revealing tunnels and chambers with people and their livestock in daily life underground. At a depth of approximately 60 metres, it could have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores.
Colourful book jacket artwork of the White Star Line Titanic ship sailing towards you on the ocean waves. Stylized digital painting by Stuart Jackson-Carter with vector typography by Maj Jackson-Carter.
Anthropological illustrations of native American Indians, Chinook Indians with totem pole, Sioux with American bison, Aztec and Maya peoples in elaborate feather headdress, with weapons and shields, indigenous Mapuche, before European contact in the Americas. Vibrant realistic historical illustrations.
Realistic painting of a 7th Century Glen Parva young Saxon girl with close ups of jewellery and clothing detail, for a life size animated museum screen. Photorealistic digital painting, anthropological historical illustration.
Historical scene of a medieval castle under siege with burning fires within the castle walls, an army of attackers crossing bridges over a moat firing bows and arrows, with a battering ram, hooks and ladders, defenders on the siege tower fighting with flaming arrows and catapult. Dramatic historical illustration for electronic learning/education.
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