BOI272739: The New World (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272876: Clara at the Port (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272877: Avant le Bain (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272828: George Paints (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272832: Le Terre qui Meurt (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI196167: Felin Feline, 2000 (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI196520: Hot Air Balloons (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272695: Ballovent (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272857: George's Balloons Dry (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272743: Homo Ramens (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272758: Provence Towers (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272763: Minerva's Pool (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272768: Cricket Player (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272771: Riviera (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

BOI272782: Il de la Cite, Paris (oil on canvas), Boissegur / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH1700620: Anne Hussey Stanhope (née Delaval, later Morris), Lady Stanhope, engraved by James Watson (mezzotint), Reynolds, Joshua (1723-92) (after) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH1699452: William Makepeace Thackeray (engraving), Lawrence, Samuel (1817-84) (after) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

CHT224428: Battleship Potemkin, 1925 (b/w photo), Russian School, (20th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH868532: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, aboard a US warship in Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, 1945 / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH937237: Lisa dellla Casa, c.1970 (photo) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH994356: Mavis Gallant, June 1998 (photo) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH1065319: Proclamation by Count Emmanuel de Grouchy to the People of Lyon, 7th April 1815 (litho), French School, (19th century) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH1077526: Duke Ellington and his orchestra (b/w photo) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH1077527: Duke Ellington and his orchestra (b/w photo) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

XRH1077536: Duke Ellington and his orchestra (b/w photo) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

MJN3923331: David Bowie, Minnion, John (b.1949) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE1219766: The Baite, a poem by John Donne, set to music by William Corkine in his Second Book of Airs, 1612. From The Poems of John Donne, published 1912 / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2919879: Prince Albert, Prince Consort, 1819-1861. From a portrait by Dalton after F. Winterhalter. From the book “The Girlhood of Queen Victoria 1832-1840 Vol II” published 1912. / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2919885: Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, 1786-1861. Mother of Queen Victoria. From a portrait by F. Winterhalter. From the book “The Girlhood of Queen Victoria 1832-1840 Vol II” published 1912. / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967834: Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt or Hinmatóowyalahtq?it surrenders to General Nelson Appleton Miles on October 5, 1877, thereby ending the Nez Perce War. Chief Joseph or Young Joseph, 1840 – 1904. Leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe. Nelson Appleton Miles, 1839 – 1925. United States soldier. From The History of our Country, published1900. / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967844: An Apache Indian hunting in the 19th century. From The History of Our Country, published 1900 / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967856: Railway strikers sabotaging a train during The Pullman Strike, United States of America, May 11, 1894. From The History of Our Country, published 1900 / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967859: Stokers shoveling coal into furnaces in the engine room of a warship, c.1900. From The History of Our Country, published 1900. / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967890: Charge of the Rough Riders at The Battle of San Juan Hill, near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, July 1, 1898, aka the battle for the San Juan Heights, decisive battle of the Spanish–American War. From The History of Our Country, published 1900 / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967902: The formal transfer of ownership of Upper Louisiana from Spain to the French First Republic, and then from France to the United States, March 10, 1804. This act finalized the Louisiana Purchase, the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. From The History of Our Country, published 1900. / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

KWE2967912: An elaborately decorated mortuary shrine on one of the Solomon Islands, Oceania. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images