Search Results: John Cabot

The famous signature of US Founding Father John Hancock, printed on a letter; this signature famously appears on the US Declaration of Independence. Restored by Jim S., 15 September 2011. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, oil on wood painting by Andrea Solario, c. 1507-9 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Sculpture of Charlemagne (Holy Roman Emperor r. 800-814 CE) in the Abbey of Saint John at Müstair, Switzerland. The Abbey, which began life as a monastery, is located in Switzerland's Graubünden Canton and was constructed in the late 8th...

A 15th century CE manuscript illustration showing the capture of John II of France (r. 1350-1364 CE) at the Battle of Poitiers in September 1356 CE. The battle was the second major victory for the English in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453...

A statue of Saint John the Baptist by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455 CE). The figure stands in the exterior wall of the Church of Orsanmichele in Florence. Completed c. 1415 CE.

Statue of Captain John Smith (l. 1580-1631 CE), English explorer, soldier, author, and early governor of the Jamestown Colony of Virginia between 1607-1609 CE, in Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown, Virginia.

A c. 1581 CE portrait by an unknown artist of the English mariner, privateer and slave trader Sir John Hawkins (1532-95 CE). (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England)

Cherokee Principal Chief John Ross (l. 1790-1866) photographed shortly before his death in 1866.

An 1873 oil-on-canvas portrait by George Frederic Watts of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), a major proponent of Utilitarianism. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

A c. 1807 oil on canvas portrait by John Wesley Jarvis of the Anglo-American philosopher Thomas Paine (1737-1809). (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)