CCI5975411: Sinbad the sailor. (Illustration, ca. 1910) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

CCI5975425: The brandy. (Illustration, ca. 1910) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

CCI5975435: Prince Cheri. (Illustration, ca. 1910) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4802458: Rosalie Jones kicks off the election campaign of Republican candidate Robert LaFollette for the American presidential election. 24/09/1924, American Photographer, (20th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4802503: Futurism: “Giannino Ancillotto takes down the Draken di Rustigne"” (Gianni Ancillotto takes down the Draken of Rustigne) - 1934, Gambini, Ivanhoe (b.1904) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4802814: Illustration by H. R. Millar for the poem “Queen Mab's Fairy tales” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 1897, Millar, Harold Robert (1869-1940) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4802893: The wolf. Plate taken from a Natural History Treat of “” Works of Buffon”” by naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon (1707 - 1788). 19th century, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803045: Cold War (Cuban missile crisis or nuclear fusees): the Sovietic ship Okhotsk leaves Cuba charging three nuclear missiles positioned on the island towards the United States. Photograph of defense services taken from a bomber. 03/12/1962, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803076: Portrait of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German writer., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803102: Painting on vase representing a griffon. 2nd century BC. ., Greek school, (2nd century BC) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803184: The character interpreting Youth in the ballet “” Il noce di Benevento”” by Austrian composer Franz Xaver Sussmayr (1766-1803). Illustration of the 19th century, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803247: Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) c.1893 (poster), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803260: Opera Il tabarro by Giacomo Puccini, 1918-19 (poster), Metlicovitz, Leopoldo (1868-1944) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803853: Blazon decorates a unicorn, a star on a red background. Detail of a miniature. 14th century, Unknown Artist, (14th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803917: Athenian statesman Pericles (495 BC-429 BC), a supporter of democracy, with his daughter Marine. Engraving of the 19th century (19-1233), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803950: Portrait of Ippolito NIEVO (1831-61) Italian writer and patriot., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

LSE4804091: Rabelais, La Devinière: Rabelais's birthplace., French School, (17th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4803623: The life of the galerians aboard a Greek galley in Antiquite. Illustration by Richard Ranft (1862-1931) 1909, Ranft, Richard (1862-1931) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818018: Indian culture and civilization: musician playing tablas, traditional musical instrument, India. Engraving 1808., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818037: Indian culture, civilization and society: musician with traditional Indian percussion. Engraving from 1808., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818047: Indian culture, civilization and society: musician with traditional Indian wind instrument (Sournae). Engraving from 1808., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818064: Botanical board: three kinds of Ancolies (Aquilegia) - In “” Historia botanica pratica, seu plantarum, quae ad usum medianae relevant, nomenclatura, descriptio et virtutes...”” by Giovanni Battista Morandi (? - 1761), Morandi, Giovanni Battista (d.1761) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818087: Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Ceylon Cinnamomum) - Engraving of the Herbarium by J.W. Weinmann in 1737., Weinman, Johann Wilhelm (fl.1737-45) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818090: Pesca Vagaloggia Duracina (Fishing and fishing branch). 19th century herbarium., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818102: Sylvestris Rotundifolia. 19th century herbarium., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818126: Fragon False Holly or Small Holly (Ruscus) in a 19th century herbarium., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818140: Pimprenelle: Pimpinella Sanguisorba major., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818149: Lin or Linum - In “” Herbarium Mattioli””., Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1501-77) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818151: Malva Sylvestre (Great Purple) - in “” De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignia”” by Leonhart Fuchs, 1542., Fuchs, Leonhard (1501-66) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818154: Cannabis Sativa (Hemp cultivtive) - in “” De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignia”” by Leonhart Fuchs, 1542., Fuchs, Leonhard (1501-66) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818162: Turcicum Frumentum (Mis) - in “” De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignes”” by Leonhart Fuchs, 1542, Fuchs, Leonhard (1501-66) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818202: Portrait of Richard Delalande, superintendent of the Music of the King; b. 15 Dec. 1657 in Paris; d. 18 Jan. 1726., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818206: Third day: theatre set up in the middle of the Great Pond, representing the island of Alcine... Engraving 1676., Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818252: A scene by Armide by Philippe Guinault and Jean Baptiste Lully (Giovanni Battista Lulli) (1632-1687). Engraving., Unknown Artist / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818276: Meeting between the people of Christopher Columbus and the Cannibals - in “Nova Tipus Transacto Navigatio Novi Orbi'' by Philoponus Honorius, 1621., Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

GIA4818310: Jardin francais du Peer Trianon - in “Essay sur la composition et l'ornement des jardins”, Paris, 1823., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images