Images

A 1730's portrait of George II of Great Britain (r. 1727-1760) by Charles Jervas. (Royal Collection)

A visual timeline illustrating the evolution of agriculture in parallel with invention and social development in the region of the Fertile Crescent (a term first used in 1916 by Egyptologist...

A 1744 portrait by Thomas Hudson of George II of Great Britain (r. 1727-1760). (National Portrait Gallery, London)

A c. 1745 oil-on-canvas portrait by Allan Ramsay of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-88), also known as 'Bonnie' Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender since he sought and failed to restore the Stuart line to the throne of Britain...

St. Anne’s Church, Limehouse, London. Consecrated in 1730, it is an early example of the Georgian architectural style.

A 19th-century illustration showing the composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) with George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) in 1717. Handel performed his Water Music for the king during a trip along the River Thames.

An imagined conversation between three leaders of the French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (left), Georges Danton (center), and Jean-Paul Marat (right). This painting depicts a scene from Victor Hugo's novel Ninety-Three...

Execution of Georges Danton, 5 April 1794. Image by Charles Brabant, 19th century.

The Cordeliers Convent in Paris, France, where the radical political society the Cordeliers Club met during the French Revolution (1789-1799).

Antoinette Gabrielle Charpentier (1762-1793), first wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton (1759-1794). She died in childbirth while Danton was on mission in Belgium. Oil on canvas portrait by Jacques-Louis...