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In the early 1840's Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens extensively explored many of the ruined cities of the ancient Maya. Catherwood's drawings complemented Stephens' text in his best-selling books Incidents of Travel in Central...

This image, a miniature from the "Welfenchronik" (History of the Guelphs), which dates to the late twelfth century CE, shows Frederick I Barbarossa (r. 1152-1190 CE), flanked by his sons.

The Return of Persephone by Frederick Leighton, 1891

The Garden of the Hesperides, oil on canvas by Lord Frederick Leighton. 1892. The Hesperides were guardians of the tree that produced golden apples, a gift to earth from Hera. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral

This lithograph of Stela D at Copan was done by Frederick Catherwood and first published in 1844 in his book, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. Like John Lloyd Stephens' works on the Maya, the book was very...

A meeting of the monarchs of France, Russia, and Prussia during the signing of the Treaties of Tilsit. Depicted in the center of the painting, from left to right: French Emperor Napoleon I, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Queen Louise of Prussia...

Frederick North, Lord North (1732-1792), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782, oil on canvas portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1773-74. National Portrait Gallery, London, England.

The Plague at Athens' by Nicolas Poussin depicting the infamous plague which struck ancient Athens in 430-427 BCE. (Gallery of Sir Frederick Cook, Richmond, UK)

Although mortally wounded, Patriot General Nicholas Herkimer continues to command his troops at the Battle of Oriskany (6 August 1777), during the Saratoga Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. While Herkimer's Patriot troops ultimately...

The Battle of Trafalgar, oil on canvas painting by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1836.