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Portrait of Prince Józef Poniatowski (1763-1813), Polish nobleman, soldier, and marshal of the French Empire. Killed on 19 October 1813 at the end of the Battle of Leipzig. Oil on canvas portrait by Josef Grassi, c. 1810. Royal Castle...

Buffalo Dance, Mandan, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1837. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Buffalo Dance in San Ildefonso, New Mexico, 1893, photo by Edwin Deming, published in The American Museum journal, New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1900.

Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their Medecine Lodge. In Mih-Tutta-Hankush, illustration by Karl Bodmer from the book Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832–1834...

Beautiful Prairie Bluffs, Upper Mississippi, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1836. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1837-1839. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Sioux Worshiping at the Red Boulders, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1837-1839. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

A map illustrating the route and failing fortunes of the Spanish Armada (from Spanish - Grande y Felicísima Armada, “Great and Most Fortunate Fleet”) in 1588. A crucial part of a planned invasion of England by King Philip II of Spain, the...

A microscope of the type invented by the English scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703). Made between 1671 and 1700. The device on the left, designed by Hooke, is a scotoscope which helped better illuminate the specimen under view in the microscope...

A posthumous portrait of the celebrated scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703), a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. Painted by Rita Greer in 2009. (Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University)