History Collection (page 2)

Fra Mauro map (1460). The Fra Mauro Map orientation (South at the top). is considered
Fra Mauro map (1460). The Fra Mauro Map orientation (South at the top).is considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography. by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro

Benito Mussolini speaking, 1911
Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) - " Il Duce" - Italian fascist dictator addressing fascist youths on the occasion of the calling up of the conscripts of the 1911 class, about 560

Darius I (548-486 BC) Achaemenid king of Persia from 521, with attendants. Chromolithograph of 1881 after frieze in the citadel at Susa

Giant limestone statues of Ramses II (Rameses - 1304-1237 BC) holding the crook and the flail, symbols of kingship, Temple of Ramses, Abu Simbel (Simbul)

The Printers Workshop. Woodcut by Jost Amman from Hartmann Schopper Panoplia, Frankfort-am-Main, 1568

Portrait of the Kangxi Emperor in Court Dress, by anonymous court artists. Late Kangxi period. Hanging scroll, colour on silk. The Palace Museum, Beijing

Otto Albert Koch (1866-1920), German graphic artist. 1909 the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest or the Battle of Varus In 9 AD

Native American Algonquin Indian village of Pomeiock, Gibbs Creek, North Carolina, showing huts and longhouses inside a protective palisade

JJ (Joseph John) Thomson (1856-1940) British Nuclear physicist, discovered electron, here with his research students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1898

The capture of the Cacafuego, the Spanish treasure-ship, by Sir Francis Drake 1579 in the vicinity of Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, painted by Holbein. Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, KG, PC (c)
Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, painted by Holbein. Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, KG, PC (c. 1485(1) - 28 July 1540), known as 1st Baron Cromwell of Wimbledon between 1536 and 1540

Triumph of Neptune. Neptune, Roman god of the sea (Greek: Poseidon) carrying his trident and riding in chariot pulled by horses with dolphin tails. 2nd century AD mosaic from Sousse (Susah)

Reconstruction of medieval conception of the universe showing a flat earth surrounded by the crystalline spheres. Figure on left has broken through outermost of these to find the celestial machinery

Sioux Native American Indian man, 1890

Jack Red Cloud Native North American Sioux Indian

National party, Government of South Africa. Prime Minister Magnus Malan seated centre(1948)

Apple Imac computer circa 2007

selling Indulgences. In Catholic theology, an indulgence is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven

Egyptian amulet (Scarab beetle)

Franz marc, Expressionist style painting circa 1913-14

Tuke, Henry Scott (1858-1929) artist. Ruby, gold and malachite, 1902

Giacomo Puccini (1858 -1924) Italian composer of operas. Poster for Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) an opera in three acts, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Title page Two Treatises of Government: John Locke, 2nd edition 1694, First, attack on Divine Right of Kings: Second, dealing with Rights of Man

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States of America 1861-1865. Assassinated at Fords Theatre, Washington by actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth, 15 April 1865

The Wild Bunch, 1901, gang of American outlaws, bank and train robbers, led by Butch Cassidy, seated right. Cassidy, born Robert LeRoy Parker (1866-1908): Standing left

Egon Krenz (1937-) former Communist East German politician. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the DDR

Bolshevist, After painting by Boris Kustodiev, Russia
The Bolshevist. After 1920 painting by Boris Mihajlovic Kustodiev (1878 - 1927). Russian

Portrait of Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)
Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) - " Il Duce" - Italian fascist dictator

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) addressing a meeting in New York State. Roosevelt became 26th president of USA after the assassination of McKinley in September 1901

Tutankhamun (Tutenkamen) d. c. 1340 BC 18th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh. Guardian figure
Tutankhamun (Tutenkamen) d.c.1340 BC 18th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh. Guardian figure on his golden sarcophagus Photograph

Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Abu Musa (c721-c815 - Al Jabir: Geber) Arab alchemist. Court physician to Harun al-Rashid. From manuscript in Biblioteca Medicea Laurensiana, Florence, Italy

Napoleon and his staff watching the burning of Moscow, 1812. Early 20th century book illustration

Tomb of Tutankhamun (dc1340 BC): Sarcophagus containing gold coffin of the king which held his mummy.. Cairo Museum, Egypt

of Fortune - Noblet Tarot, 1d Prince Albert riding in Windsor Park when young. Hand-coloured lithograph

Mummy wrapped in bandages and lying on base of coffin. Cairo Museum. Egypt

Portrait photographers studio: Taken photograph using natural light only from large window and skylight. Chromolithograph, Germany 1871

Tarot card. The Juggler or Mountebank. Parisian Tarot 1500. Tarot pack of 22 cards was used in fortune telling

Dutch Warship in a Calm Sea Artist, Abrham Storck (c1635-1704). Oil on wood. Private collection

British in India. Colonel Mordaunt watching a cock fight at Lucknow. Artist, Johann Zoffany (1733-1810)

Remains of an Ancient Roman paved street. Photograph

Gleaners at Sunset (1889). Artist, Leon Autustin L Hermitte (1844-1925). Private collection

Frederick I (Barbarossa) c1123-1190 Holy Roman emperor from 1152. Death of Barbarossa who drowned trying to cross River Saleph in Cilicia

The Falconer. Woodcut from George Turbevile or Turbeville Book of Faulconrie 1611. Bird perched on gauntlet on mans wrist is still hooded

Phoenecian gold jewellery. 5th century BC

Australian natives preparing meal from animal they have hunted. Man on left makes fire by blister method. Chromolithograph c1895

Romans in battle against the Barbarians. Scene from sarcophagus of a general of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180). 2nd century AD. National Museum, Rome

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), Alexander III of Macedon. Ivory portrait bust from the royal tombs at Vergina. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

Catacomb of the Capuchin (Franciscan) convent, Palermo, with remains of departed Friars. Woodcut of 1833

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