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Restored monument of Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) learning shipbuilding in the city of Zaandam, the Netherlands, in 1697. Originally erected in 1911, removed in 1918 and restored in the 1990s, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. A copy of this...

A member of the Great Embassy, oil on canvas, unknown artist of the Flemish school, 1697. The ambassador is shown in a half-length portrait turned to the left, looking towards the viewer. He wears a red cap and a red jacket, both trimmed...

The Grand Embassy arrives in Amsterdam.

Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) in Russian dress during the Grand Embassy (1697-1698). Austrian National Library, Vienna.

Encampment of Crow Indians, oil on canvas by Joseph Henry Sharp, 1908. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D. C.

Crow Indians, by Karl Bodmer, between 1840 and 1843. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

British troops disembarking from warships in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1768, an 1898 colored copy of the original 1768 engraving by Paul Revere. Boston Public Library.

John Hancock (1737-1793), a wealthy Boston merchant and future American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1765. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

The Bloody Massacre, depicting the Boston Massacre that occurred on 5 March 1770, engraving by Paul Revere, 1770. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Charles Townshend (1725-1767), a British Member of Parliament and architect of the Townshend Acts of 1767-68. Portrait by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1765. Royal Academy, London.