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Katase at Kamakura, Japan

Grave of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a famous shogun, Nikko, Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu (previously spelled Iyeyasu) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle

Le prophete, opera, late 19th century. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The pride of the family, Marken, Netherlands, c1934. Illustration from La Hollande by Henry Asselin, (Van Munsters Uitgevers Maatschappij, Amsterdam, c1934)

Entrance to a Metro station, Paris, 1931. Artist: Ernest Flammarion
Entrance to a Metro station, Paris, 1931. Illustration from the book Paris published by Ernest Flammarion, (1931)

The Stage Coach or Country Inn Yard, 1747. Artist: William Hogarth
The Stage Coach or Country Inn Yard, 1747. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds]

King Charles I Tower, Chester, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, The second series of British royal and ancient buildings

Athletes at the US Olympic Trials, 1932, (1936). The 1932 Games were held in Los Angeles. A print from Olympia 1936, Die Olympischen Spiele 1936, Volume I, Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg, 1936

Belle Vue Hotel, Nagasaki, Japan, before 1920. Hand-tinted picture postcard

A Cavalier: time of Louis XIII, 1861, (1912). Artist: Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
A Cavalier: time of Louis XIII, 1861, (1912). A colour print from Famous Paintings, with an introduction by Gilbert Chesterton, Cassell and Company, (London, New York, Toronto, 1912)

King George V waves good wishes to Princess Maud as she leaves for her honeymoon, 1923. Princess Maud of Fife was a granddaughter of King Edward VII

A glimpse of Sydney from Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: W Mollier
A glimpse of Sydney from Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran

From Woolloomooloo to Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: Frederic B Schell
From Woolloomooloo to Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney

The Church of Clermont-en-Argonne, France, 1915, (1926). Artist: Francois Flameng
The Church of Clermont-en-Argonne, France, 1915, (1926). French soldiers on the steps of the church, destroyed by German shellfire during World War I

General Diaz and General Foch meeting at the Italian headquarters, Italy, 2 May 1918. Diaz (1861-1928) was Italian Chief of Staff from October 1917 until the end of the war

French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau in Versailles, France 3 June 1918. Clemenceau (1841-1929) was appointed Prime Minister of France in November 1917

Heidelberg Castle, Germany, 1886. Artist: Francois Stroobant
Heidelberg Castle, Germany, 1886. The castle dates mainly from the 14th-17th centuries. Now largely in ruins, it features examples of medieval, Renaissance, and baroque German architecture

Ghat and Temple at Gokul, India, c1838. Artist: R Wallis
Ghat and Temple at Gokul, India, c1838

Moses and Jethro, c1655-c1656. Artist: Ferdinand Bol
Moses and Jethro, c1655-c1656. According to the Old Testament, as the father of Zipporah, Jethro was Moses father-in-law. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

The Parting of Abelard and Heloise, before 1780. Artist: Angelika Kauffmann
The Parting of Abelard and Heloise, before 1780. Kauffmann, Angelika (1741-1807). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

View of a Square and a Palace, between 1775 and 1780. Artist: Francesco Guardi
View of a Square and a Palace, between 1775 and 1780. Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The Metropolitan genuflects at the coronation ceremony of Tsar Alexander II, Moscow, 1856. Artist: Georg Wilhelm Timm
The Metropolitan genuflects at the coronation ceremony of Tsar Alexander II, Moscow, 1856. The coronation of Emperor Alexander II (1818-1881) and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880)

Banganga Tank and Walkeshwar Temple at Bombay, 1890s. Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks
Banganga Tank and Walkeshwar Temple at Bombay, 1890s. The tank and the temple, which is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, were built in the 1120s. From a private collection

Duty, 1883. Artist: Edmund Blair Leighton
Duty, 1883. From a private collection

Composition, 1885. Artist: Andrei Osipovich Karelin
Composition, 1885. Found in the collection of the State M Gorky Memorial Museum, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Au Jardin des Gemmes, 1924. Artist: Leon Carre
Au Jardin des Gemmes, 1924. Leonard Rosenthal. Illustration of Leon Carre. Private collection

The German sailors burn Tsung-Li-Yamen, 1900. Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion from November 1899 to September 7, 1901, against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics

Dance of Almee, c1873-1937. Artist: Paul Louis Bouchard
Dance of Almee, c1873-1937

The Hundred Steps, Windsor Castle, c1888. Artist: Herbert Arthur
The Hundred Steps, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, c1888. Illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria Vol II, by Robert Wilson, (c1888)

Peace Conference at the Hague (1899), 1900

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), (5 July 1898), 1900

The gate of Shanghai, China, Sino-Japanese War, 1895. Artist: Henri Meyer
The gate of Shanghai, China, Sino-Japanese War, 1895. The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) was a war fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan over the control of Korea

Return of Christopher Columbus, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 20th August 1892

Garrotting of anarchists in Xeres, Spain, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Garrotting of anarchists in Xeres, Spain, 1892. Manuel Fernandez Reina, Jose Fernandez Lamela, Manuel Silva Leal & Antonio Zarzuela Granja, considered anarchists were condemned to death

Scene two, act two, from the opera Le Mage, by Jules Massenet, 1891. Le Mage is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jean Richepin

Act one of Thermidor, by Victorien Sardou, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
Act one of Thermidor, by Victorien Sardou, 1891. Lobster Thermidor was created in 1894 by Marie s, a Paris restaurant near the theatre Comedie Francaise

Queen Elizabeth with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, Glamis Castle, Scotland, 1937. A photograph from the Illustrated London News: Coronation Record Number, (London, 1937)

Uniforms of the 2nd infantry of the French royal guard, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniforms of the soldiers of the 2nd infantry regiment of the French royal guard, 1823

French Foreign Legionnaires, Algeria, c1910

Frontispiece of Arca Noe, 1675. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
Frontispiece of Arca Noe, 1675. A print from Arca Noe, Amsterdam, 1675. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Pergamon Altar, 2nd century BC
Pergamon Altar, 2nd Century, BC. Opulent structure originally built in the 2nd century BC in the Ancient Greek city of Pergamon

The Birth, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Birth, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Madonna and Child with Saints, c1470-1523. Artist: Perugino
Madonna and Child with Saints, c1470-1523

Venus et l Amour c1535-1560. Artist: Lambert Sustris
Venus et l Amour c1535-1560

Volumnie and Veturie in front of Coriolan, c1638-1639. Artist: Eustache Le Sueur
Volumnie and Veturie in front of Coriolan, c1638-1639. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France

Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus, 1649. Artist: Eustache Le Sueur
Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus, 1649. During Saint Pauls mission to Ephesus, he succeeded in converting many of the citys inhabitants to Christianity, located in the collection at, Louvre, Paris

Merchants of Carpet to the Khan El-Country Cottage, 1880. Published in L Egypt by George Moritz Ebers, 1880

Courtyard in the House of Sheikh Sadat, Cairo, 1873. Artist: Frank Dillon
Courtyard in the House of Sheikh Sadat, Cairo, 1873. Found in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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