Images

A print portrait of the Angol-Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691). (Science Museum, London)

Napoleon after his first abdication at Fontainebleau, April 1814. Painting by Paul Delaroche, 1845. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.

Portrait of Marie Louise of Austria (l. 1791-1847), oil on canvas by Robert Lefevre, 1812. Daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria, she was the second wife of French Emperor Napoleon I and was therefore Empress of the French from...

Napoleon in exile on St. Helena, Watercolor by František Xaver Sandmann, c. 1820. National Museum of the Château de Malmaison.

Louis Philippe accompanied by his sons (Louis Philippe accompagné de ses fils), painting by Horace Vernet (1789 - 1863). Royal Castle of Amboise, France.

Oil on canvas by F. Ménageot, 1781, Amboise, Royal Castle, Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the arms of Francis the First. Leonardo da Vinci died at the Cloux Manor (known as the Clos-Lucé today) on 2 May 1519, in Amboise, France. To represent...

A map illustrating the course of a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of England between the houses of Lancaster and York for the crown. Known today as the Wars of the Roses (a term coined in the 19th century by Sir Walter Scott), this dynastic...

Sweat lodge frame - Cheyenne, photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1910. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Bringing the Sweat-lodge Willows - Piegan, photo by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1910. Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

Sweat lodge, Kiowa camp on the Washita, illustration from the Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880.