Images

The Doctor, oil on canvas painting by Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1927), English Neo-Venetian artist, 1891. The painting shows a Victorian doctor watching over a sick child in a fisherman’s cottage while dawn breaks through the window. On one...

The Allied plan of attack for the Battle of Tourcoing, devised on 16 May 1794, carried out on 17 May. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022, superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

A depiction of the first day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 17 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022; superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

A depiction of the second day of the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. Map by Talamioros, 2 January 2022, superimposed on OpenStreetMap.

Battle of Mouscron, 29 April 1794; part of the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). Painting by Charles Louis Mozin, 1839. Palace of Versailles.

Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, escapes across a brook to avoid capture during the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. Image is by an anonymous artist, published in An Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the War, by an Officer...

A map illustrating the situation in Europe after the Peace of Westphalia was signed in Osnabrück and Münster between May and October 1648. The two treaties ended the Thirty Years’ War (initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic...

Facial reconstruction of the Ptolemaic Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII (r. 51-30 BCE). This artistic representation of Cleopatra is primarily based on a bust from the Berlin Altes Museum, widely agreed to depict Cleopatra. In addition to the...

Memorial of Quintius Sulpicius Maximus, an 11-year-old who won a poetry contest in 95 CE. Porta Salaria, Rome, Italy.

A teacher with three discipuli, relief found in Neumagen near Trier, c. 180-185 CE. Photo of casting in Pushkin Museum, Moscow.