Images

Allegory of the Concordat of 1801, painting by Pierre Joseph Célestin François, 1802. Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison.

Portrait of Pope Pius VII, oil on panel by Jacques-Louis David, 1805. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Portrait of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by an unknown artist, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 19th century. Palace of Versailles.

Louis XVIII of France in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, c. 1814. Hôtel Beauharnais, Paris.

Signature of the Concordat between France and the Holy See, 15 July 1801, drawing by François Gérard, 19th century. Palace of Versailles.

An infographic depicting the tomb layout and location of the Egyptian New Kingdom pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1345 - 1327 BCE). Tutankhamun died when he was nineteen and the cause of his death is still a mystery. His tomb was discovered relatively...

An 18th-century engraving by James Gilray of Haidar Ali, ruler of the southern Indian kingdom of Mysore from 1761 to 1782. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A c. 1804 illustration of Bangalore fort flying the flag of Tipu Sultan (d. 1799), ruler of the Indian state of Mysore.

A c. 1800 painting showing the last stand of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore in 1799 at the end of the Anglo-Mysore Wars with the East India Company.

An 1838 painting by David Wilkie showing the discovery of the body of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, in a prison cell in Srirangapatna in 1799 at the end of the Anglo-Mysore Wars.