Images

The Festival of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794, held on the Champ de Mars, marked the height of Maximilien Robespierre's power. Painting by Pierre-Antoine Demachy, c. 1794. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

The execution of 9 emigres in October 1793, during the Reign of Terror. Illustration by an unknown artist from the book La Guillotine en 1793 by H. Fleischmann, 1908.

Execution of Maximilien Robespierre and his allies including Louis-Antoine Saint-Just, Georges Couthon, Augustin Robespierre, and Francois Hanriot on 28 July 1794, considered to be the end of the Reign of Terror. Couthon is being beheaded...

Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shogun of Japan in Osaka, 1867. Tojo Museum of History, Matsudo.

Sakuradamon Incident, 1860, by an unknown Japanese artist.

A photograph taken in 1877 by Samuel Bourne of Tukojirao II (r. 1884-1886), Maharaja Holkar of Indore, one of the Indian princely states.

Derawar Fort, Punjab, Pakistan. The fort was first built in the 9th century and used by successive rulers including the nawabs of Bahawalpur, one of the Indian princely states.

A colourised 1911 photograph of Maharaja Bhupendra Singh of Patiala (r. 1900-1938), one of the Indian princely states.

The Lake Palace of Udaipur, India. Built in the mid-18th century as a summer palace of the Mewar dynasty which ruled Udaipur, one of the Indian princely states.

A photograph showing the royal platform and parading troops during the Delhi Durbar of December 1911. The durbar was held as an opportunity for rulers of Indian princely states to pay homage to the British Crown, in this case, represented...