Images

During the French Revolution, a liberty tree was a way for a village or community to show solidarity with the Revolution and devotion to the patrie (fatherland). Gouache on paper by Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, c. 1790. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Festival of the Federation (14 July 1790) on the Champ de Mars, from a perspective close to the king's pavilion, engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman, after a painting by Charles Monnet, 1790. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

A 1706 portrait by Charles Bolt of Anne, Queen of Britain (r. 1702-1714) and her husband Prince George of Denmark (1653-1708). Royal Collection.

An image illustrating the family tree of the Stuarts (sometimes spelled Stewart or Steuart) a ruling dynasty of Scotland from 1371 and of England from 1603, from a personal union of crowns in the United Kingdom until the establishment of...

A 1707 tinted engraving of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714). (Atlas Royal Amsterdam)

A c. 1685 oil-on-canvas portrait of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714) when she was Princess of Denmark. Painting by Jan van der Vaart and Willem Wissing. The princess is here 18 years of age and is enveloped in luxurious textiles...

An aerial view of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England. Built in the first quarter of the 18th century for John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. (orignal image cropped)

Black-figure lekythos attributed to the Beldam Painter and thought to depict Lamia being tortured by five satyrs. German Archaeological Institute,

A statue of the Greek goddess Athena from the Library of Pergamon. 200-150 BCE. Height: 310.5 cm. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin)

A map illustrating the expanse and complexity of the northern Europen trade network of commerce and the powerful association of cities and merchant guilds known as the Hanseatic League (from Old High German - Hanse for “guild,” or “association,”...