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The Jaquet-Droz automata are three doll automata built by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, between 1768 and 1774. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

SS Great Britain, a museum ship and former passenger steamship now located in Bristol. It was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. Made by Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between...

Roman amphitheatre of Avenches, Switzerland, built in the early 2nd century CE, in use until the 4th century CE, used as a stone quarry afterwards. In the 11th century, a fortified tower was built on its eastern entrance and today it serves...

Statue of Saint Helena of Constantinople by Andrea Bolgi (1605-1656). St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican.

A 1902 oil on canvas, Old Winegrower in Moret, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Moret-sur-Loing was a small village on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. One is tempted to see an autobiographical...

An 1899 oil on canvas, Siesta, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. An unusual subject given the artist's obsession with capturing the peasantry at work. (Private Collection)

An 1880 oil on canvas, Landscape at Chaponval, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. A work that illustrates the love of blue, a colour Pissarro sometimes came in for criticism for overusing. The artist...

An 1877 oil on canvas, The Côte des Boeufs at L'Hermitage, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. This deceptively simple view reveals on closer inspection the artist's complex use of brushstrokes. The vertical...

An 1890 oil on canvas, Hyde Park, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum)

An 1895 oil on canvas, Apple Trees and Haymakers, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Painted near the artist's home at Eragny, Pissarro was always keen to capture farm labourers at work. (Private Collection...