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Hadrian's Wall at Thorny Doors
A stretch of Hadrian's Wall known as Thorny Doors, east of Milecastle 42 (Cawfields). At Thorny Doors stands one of the highest sections of surviving original wall.
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Birdoswald Roman Fort, East Gate
The remains of the east gate (porta principalis dextra) of Birdoswald fort, the best-preserved fort gateway on Hadrian's Wall.
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Relics Window, Sainte-Chapelle
Relics Window, depicting Louis IX of France with the relics of the Passion, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris.
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Hadrian's Wall Path
Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail is an unbroken 84-mile (135 km) signposted footpath stretching coast-to-coast and crossing England from Wallsend in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west.
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Bronze Head of Hadrian
Bronze head of Roman emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE) found in the River Thames in London in 1834. It belonged to a larger-than-life-size statue that may have been created and erected to commemorate Hadrian's visit to Roman Britain...
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Statue of Isocrates
Athenian orator Isocrates by Pierre Granier (1655-1715).
Palace of Versailles.
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The Works of Isocrates
The cover of all of Isocrates' works, translated into Latin by the humanist Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580) in 1570.
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Improvised Tribunal during the September Massacres
The image depicts one of the many improvised tribunals set up by sans-culottes to condemn prisoners to death during the September Massacres of 1792. This illustration specifically shows the trial of...
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The September Massacres Outside the Abbaye Prison
Depiction of the September Massacres (2-7 September 1792) at the prison of Abbaye, where around two-thirds of prisoners were murdered. Watercolor by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, 19th century. Musée Carnavalet...
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Massacre at La Salpêtrière, 3 September 1792
Image depicting the murder of 40 women accused of prostitution in the women's prison of La Salpêtrière in the September Massacres, during the French Revolution. By an anonymous author, c. 1793.
