Images

At the Battle of Lodi, 24 French cannons were placed along the west bank of the Adda River to bombard the Austrian positions across the river. Image by Felicien de Myrbach-Rheinfeld, in Life of Napoleon Bonaparte...

Battle of Lodi, 10 May 1796, oil on canvas by Louis-François Lejeune. Palace of Versailles.

The modern bridge of Lodi that crosses the Adda River. Though this bridge was built in 1864, it gives a sense of what the original bridge may have looked like, which the French Army of Italy had to cross during...

Isabella of France and her army with the body of Hugh Despenser in the background, illustration from a 15th-century manuscript by Jean Pichore, Royal MS 15 E IV, f. 316v. British Library, London.

Meeting between Isabella of France, Queen of England, and her brother, Charles IV of France, in 1325, illustration from Froissart's Chronicles, c. 1475. National Library of France, Paris.

Sappho and Alcaeus, oil on panel by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881. The painting illustrates a passage by the ancient Greek poet Hermesianax (active c. 330 BCE) depicting a scene on the island of Lesbos (Mytilene) during...

The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1888. It depicts the following lines of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott: And down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his...

Dancing Scene in the Caribbean, oil on canvas by Agostino Brunias, sometime between 1764 and 1796. The painting depicts men and women of African descent dancing on a Caribbean island, most likely St. Vincent or Dominica...

Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in a scene in the workhouse from Oliver!, a 1968 musical adaptation of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1812-70). The story of Oliver Twist, first serialised in 1837, highlighted the plight...

An 1834 oil on canvas portrait by William Henry Brooke (1772-1860) of the industrialist Robert Owen (1771-1858) who rose from the position of a lowly apprentice to become a great mill owner during the Industrial Revolution...