Images

Map of ship movements during the Battle of the Nile. British ships are red, French ships are blue. Image by Gsl; based on a map from Intelligence in War, John Keegan, 2003, p. 43.

Posthumous portrait of French Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, commander of the French fleet during the expedition to Egypt in 1798. He was killed aboard his flagship L'Orient during the Battle of...

After sustaining a wound to the forehead, Horatio Nelson resumes command during the Battle of the Nile (1-2 August 1798). Oil on canvas by Daniel Orme, c. 1800. National Maritime Museum, London.

A depiction of the moment that the powerful French warship, L'Orient, exploded during the Battle of the Nile (1-2 August 1798). Oil on canvas by Mather Brown, 1825. National Maritime Museum, London.

Portrait of Sir Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), oil on canvas by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1799. National Maritime Museum, London.

A facsimile sheet of the music handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) of the composer's Requiem (1791).

A portrait by Dora Stock of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Made two years before his death, it is regarded as one of the closest likenesses to the composer. (Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria)

The fortepiano played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) when he was in Prague in 1787. (Czech Museum of Music, Prague)

A c. 1781 painting by Johann Nepomuk della Croce showing Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) and his two children, Maria Anna (nicknamed ‘Nannerl’, 1751-1829) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).

Portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500-1558), line engraving on paper by Barthel Berham. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.