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Danton on the Way to the Guillotine
Drawing of Georges Danton just before his execution, 5 April 1794, attributed to Pierre-Alexandre Wille, 1794.
Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
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Camille Desmoulins
Portrait of Camille Desmoulins, painted by Joseph Boze or one of his daughters, c. 1790.
Musee de Beaux Arts de Chartres.
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Portrait of Jacques René Hébert
Portrait of Jacques René Hébert, editor of the popular newspaper Le Père Duchesne. Print by Edme Bovinet, 1796.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
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Tyche & Plutus
Polychrome marble statue depicting the goddess Tyche holding the infant Plutus in her arms, 2nd century CE. Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
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Tyche On a Golden Double Shekel
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...
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Siraj ud-Daulah
A portrait of Siraj ud-Daulah (b. 1733), Nawab of Bengal (1756-7).
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Mid-18th Century British Infantryman
An illustration of a mid-18th century British infantryman. 39th Regiment, 1742.
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Fictionalised Scene of Japanese Woodblock Printing
A mid-19th-century scene by Utagawa Kunisada fancifully showing fashionable Japanese women creating books using woodblock printing techniques.
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Statue of Ihara Saikaku
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.
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The Man Who Loved Love
This is a page from the book 'The Man who Loved Love' (1684) written by Ihara Saikaku and illustrated by Hishikawa Moronbu held by the National Diet Library, Tokyo. Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary- (https://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit60/...
