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Opium Warehouse of the East India Company
A c. 1850 print showing an opium warehouse of the East India Company in Patna, India. Opium was dried into large balls and then packed into chests for transportation to China.
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Britannia Receiving the Riches of the East
A 1778 allegorical painting commissioned by the East India Company showing the riches of the East being presented to Britannia. Painted by Spyridon Romas. The goods shown include tea, porcelain, and jewels...
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Roman Boxing Gloves from Vindolanda
Roman boxing gloves unearthed during the excavation of a pre-Hadrianic cavalry barrack (c. 100 CE) at the Vindolanda Roman fort in Northumberland, northern England. They are the only surviving boxing gloves from...
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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.
