Gold helmet of
Meskalamdug, c. 2550 BC
Bronze head of an Akkadian ruler, c. 2350 BC
Troy
A
Nimrud ivory, 9th to 7th century BC
Scythian gold comb, c. 430–390 BC
Stater of
Mithrapata of
Lycia,
c. 390–370 BC
Pan on coins of
Panticapaeum, 4th C. BC
Britain in the year 500
Justinian I, mosaic at
Ravenna, 6th century
Lorsch Abbey gatehouse,
c. 800
Roerich,
Guests from Overseas
St Matthew,
Ebbo Gospels, early 9th C.
Westminster Hall, begun 1097,
hammerbeam roof late 14th century
Richard II surrenders the crown, 1399
French ploughman, c. 1410
Christine de Pisan, c. 1410
Portrait of a lady, c. 1410
Earl of Westmorland and his children,
c. 1415
Fra Angelico, measuring corn, 1437
Lippi, man and woman at a casement, c. 1440
Jakob Fuchsart and his sons, c. 1465
Woman by Hans Memling, c. 1470
Botticelli, Simonetta Vespucci, c. 1478
Botticelli, Giuliano de' Medici, c. 1478
Francis II of Brittany, 1488
Lorenzo Costa, musicians, c. 1490
Mary of Burgundy, c. 1490
Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut, 1498
Quentin Matsys, The Moneylender and his wife, 1514
Children of Konrad Rehlinger, 1517
Henry VIII, Charles V, Pope Leo X, and a dragon, c. 1520
Holbein, The Ambassadors
Daniel Hopfer, Mamelukes,
c. 1530
Drapers' market, Bois-le-Duc, c. 1530
Lucas Cranach,
Old man beguiled by courtesans,
c. 1537
Bronzino, Elizabeth of Toledo, 1545
Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545
Mary Tudor, 1544
Silver fantasy coin of
Queen Jane, 1553, by
Edward Emery
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Dutch Proverbs, 1559
Lord Dacre, 1559
Queen Elizabeth, Armada portrait
Nonsuch Palace
Queen Elizabeth sovereign, c. 1583
Annibale Carracci, The Beaneater, c. 1585
Family saying grace, c. 1585
Henry Unton, 1586
George Clifford
Rialto Bridge (built 1591)
Frozen river at
Antwerp, 1593
Walter Raleigh and his son, 1602
Replica of the Godspeed
King James
Henry, Prince of Wales, 1603
The Somerset House Conference, 1604
Replica of the ship Godspeed (1607)
English settlers' arrival in Virginia, 1607
Havana, 1639
King Charles I
Wenzel Hollar, Execution of Strafford, 1641
Muenster, 1648
Arms of the Protectorate, 1653–1659
Delft, 1658
New Amsterdam, 1660
Three Crowns Castle, Sweden, 1661
Sarah, Duchess of Somerset, 1679
Queen Anne, c. 1705
Stonemason's Yard, Venice, 1726
Grand Canal, Venice, 1730
Entrance to the Arsenal, Venice, 1732
Clive after the
Battle of Plassey, 1757
Boston Riot
Battle of Long Island, 1776
John Colley Nixon,
Royal Dipping, 1789
James Gillray, The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, 1795
Slave trader of
Gorée, c. 1797
Mexican mountain man, c. 1797
The Coronation of Napoleon
Battle of Sitka
Gay-Lussac, 1804
Princess Amelia, c. 1805
Korah-Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, 1805
J. M. David,
Hamburg, 1811
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow
Napoleon and Lavrushka by
Leonid Pasternak
Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1812
The Return of the
Horses of Saint Mark, 1815
José de San Martín declares independence of Peru, 1821
Death of Harris, 1824
Horace Vernet, Episode of the
Pastry War of 1838
Queen Victoria, five pounds, 1839
New Brighton, c. 1840
Attack on Queen Victoria, 1840
Carl Spitzweg, Sunday Walk, 1841
Celle, c. 1845
Queen Victoria, Gothic crown, 1847
Hungarian government of 1848
Attack on Emperor Francis Joseph, 1853
Queen Victoria penny, 1860
Democratic poster, 1866
Repin, Volga boatmen, 1870
Batak warriors, c. 1870
Homer, Eagle Head, Massachusetts, 1870
Delpy,
Pont Neuf and Quai des Orfèvres, Paris, 1875
Paul Jamin, Death of the Prince Imperial, 1879
"Farewell to
the Emperor in
Lupkow", 1880
A Hansom cab
Danish lifeboat, 1883
Monet, Tulip fields at Sassenheim, 1886
Monet, Woman outdoors, 1886
HMS Thrush (1889)
Elephant hunting, c. 1890
Cottet,
Rayons du soir, 1892
Repin, Wedding of Nicholas II, 1892
Utopia Limited poster, 1893
Dog cart, 1890s
Amsterdam, Central Station,
c. 1895
Andrees Station, 1897
Silver rupee of
Baroda State, 1897
Stockholm Expo 1897
Russian State Council, 1900
McKinley poster, 1900
Amsterdam, c. 1900
Dresden, c. 1900
Wyatt Earp's Dexter Saloon,
Nome, Alaska, 1900
Paul Signac, Leaving the Port of Saint-Tropez, 1901
Jubilee Bridge,
Laibach, 1910
Cottet,
Women of Plougastel, 1903
Repin, 17 October 1905
Portsmouth Town Hall, 1905
Automobile Calendar for 1906 (New York, 1905)
Un dirigeable militaire, c. 1906
Winnipeg, 1907
Léon Georget, 1909
Austria-Hungary, 1910
Albany Aniline and Chemical, New York, c. 1910
The Emperor on Austrian stamp of 1910
Felician Myrbach, Franz Joseph I in the Hofburg,
c. 1910
Rue Halfaouine, Tunis, c. 1911
Pyramid of Capitalist System, 1911
Nawabzada Mohammad Ismail Khan of
Amb, 1911
Woman suffrage poster, 1913
Jubilee Bridge, Laibach, c. 1914
Ward Muir, Curling at
Kandersteg, Switzerland,
c. 1914
Henry Mayer, The Awakening, 1915
Brighton pierrots,
Walter Sickert, 1915
Yiddish Great War poster
Gaza, 1917
Paul Signac, Entrée du port de
la Rochelle, 1921
Making the Empire Christmas Pudding, c. 1930
Edward VIII at state opening of Parliament, 1936
Europe by night, 2000