Images

Le Vieux Cordelier, issue 3, dated 15 December 1793. This newspaper was edited by Camille Desmoulins to attack the Hebertists and the Reign of Terror itself. The publication of this paper would eventually cost Desmoulins his head.

Drawing of Georges Danton just before his execution, 5 April 1794, attributed to Pierre-Alexandre Wille, 1794. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Portrait of Camille Desmoulins, painted by Joseph Boze or one of his daughters, c. 1790. Musee de Beaux Arts de Chartres.

Portrait of Jacques René Hébert, editor of the popular newspaper Le Père Duchesne. Print by Edme Bovinet, 1796. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Polychrome marble statue depicting the goddess Tyche holding the infant Plutus in her arms, 2nd century CE. Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

Golden double shekel from Tyre in today's Southern Lebanon, dated 104/103 BCE, two decades after the Phoenician city regained its independence from the fading Seleucid Empire, depicting the head of deity Tyche (Fortuna), wearing a crown of...

A portrait of Siraj ud-Daulah (b. 1733), Nawab of Bengal (1756-7).

An illustration of a mid-18th century British infantryman. 39th Regiment, 1742.

A mid-19th-century scene by Utagawa Kunisada fancifully showing fashionable Japanese women creating books using woodblock printing techniques.

A modern statue of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), the Japanese poet and novelist who played a leading role in creating the so-called ‘floating world’ (ukiyo-zoshi) genre of popular literature in the 17th century.