Images

An illustration of the public trial of Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818) in Westminster Hall from 1787. Hastings was a colonial administrator and the first Governor-General of the East India Company. He was impeached by Parliament for corruption...

A c. 1783 portrait by Joseph Zoffany of Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818), the colonial administrator and first Governor-General of the East India Company. Courtesy of the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University...

Portrait of Yamaga Sokō (1622-1685), by an unknown artist, Edo period, Japan.

Woodblock print depicting the courtesan Chojiya-uchi Chozan with her young attendant (kamuro) and friend preparing to smoke, by Suzuki Harunobu, Japan, 1765-1770.

Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier.

Siege of Maastricht by a French Republican army under General Miranda, February-March 1793 during the War of the First Coalition. The siege was abandoned at the approach of an Austrian army, leading to the Battle of Neerwinden on 18 March...

A c, 1640 oil on wood painting by Cornelis I. de Baellieur, Gallery of a Collector. Part of the exhibition Baroque, Age of Contrasts in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich. ©Swiss National Museum (used with permission

A tapestry showing an event during talks in relation to the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and the proposed marriage of Louis XIV and the Spanish Infanta. Paris, 1668, tapestry (high warp), silk, wool, gold thread. Part of the exhibition...

Terracotta bust of Charles-François Dumouriez by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1792. Fine Arts Museum of Angers, France.

A decorated and gilded nautilus shell. Indo-Pacific, 17th century. Part of the exhibition Baroque, Age of Contrasts in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich. ©Swiss National Museum (used with permission)