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A c. 1725 idealised portrait of Queen Nur Jahan (c. 1577-1645), wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Rape of Oreithyia by Boreas. Detail from an Apulian red-figure oenochoe, ca. 360 BCE.

The Rape of Orithyia by Boreas (1620) by Peter Paul Rubens.

Four examples of British India postage stamps issued with overprints for use in particular Indian princely states. Top left: Queen Victoria, Gwalior, 1904 Top right: Queen Victoria, Patiala, 1895 Bottom left: King George V, Jind State...

Committee of Surveillance, tasked with unmasking and arresting local "suspects" during the Reign of Terror. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Huet, c. 1793-94. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Execution by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution (modern-day Place de la Condorde) in Paris, during the Reign of Terror. By Pierre-Antoine Demachy c. 1807.

Trial of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and their allies before the Revolutionary Tribunal during the Reign of Terror. By Jean Mathias Fontaine, 1834. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Depiction of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the French Revolution (1789-99) by an unknown author, c. 19th century. National Library of France, Paris.

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.