Images

Anthony Wayne, oil on canvas portrait by Edward Savage, c. 1795. New York Historical Society.

Engraved gold ring from Egypt, 3rd or 2nd century BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Oil on canvas painting attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer, c. 1795. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Portrait of Henry Lee III, better known as 'Light-horse Harry' Lee, cavalry officer of the Continental Army, ninth Governor of Virginia, and father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Oil on canvas painting by William Edward West, c. 1838...

Portrait of Horatio Gates, oil on canvas by James Peale, after an original by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1782. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Henry Knox, portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1806. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Henry Knox around the end of the American Revolutionary War, c. 1784, oil on canvas portrait by Charles Willson Peale. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Men preparing ducks for cooking or preserving, wall painting from the tomb of Nakht, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1550-1295 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Baskets of spices and condiments, including tarragon, cumin and lard, from the tomb of Kha, Deir el-Medina, Egypt, c. 1425-1353 BCE. Museo Egizio, Turin.

Preparing and cooking cakes, tempera on paper by Nina de Garis Davies after the original wall painting from the tomb of Rekhmire, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1504-1425 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.