XEE4407172: Lais, originally from Sicily, was captured and taken as a slave to Corinth. She became the mistress of Aristippe, Demosthene and Diogene the cynical. Engraving in “The history of prostitution and debauche among all the peoples of the world from antiquity to the present day” by Dr. Th. -F. Debray. 1879., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4407219: Fredegonde (v. 545 - 597), queen of Neustria, had Chilperic I (539-584) murdered in 584. Engraving in “The history of prostitution and debauche among all the peoples of the world from antiquity to the present day” by Dr. Th. -F. Debray. 1879., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4408723: Orders of Knight. Knight of the Sword in Sweden in the 16th century. In “” History of military orders or knights, of the secure and routine militias of both sex, which have been established up to now. Edition taken from Abbe Giustiniani, R.P.Bonani, M. Herman, Schoonebeek, R.P.Heliot.Amsterdam, Brunel, 1721. Private collection., Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4408741: Orders of Knight. Chevalier de Lorette in France in the 16th century. In “” History of military orders or knights, of the secure and routine militias of both sexes, which have been established so far. Edition taken from Abbe Giustiniani, R.P.Bonani, M. Herman, Schoonebeek, R.P.Heliot.Amsterdam, Brunel, 1721. Private collection., Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4329194: A Senegalese spahi (cavalier) in Saint-Louis (Saint Louis). Engraving to illustrate a cruise on the coast of Africa, by Vice-Admiral Fleuriot de Langle, in 1868, published in “” Le tour du monde””” 1872, edited by Edouard Charton, edition Hachette, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4329251: His Highness Syadji Rao Scindia (1846-1886), Maharajah of Gwalior (present-day Madhya Pradesh). Engravure pour illustrrer l'Inde des Rajahs, by Louis Rousselet, in 1864-1868, published in “” Le tour du monde””” 1872, edited by Edouard Charton, Hachette edition, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4329561: Joguis fakirs, at the Bhopal Fair, are religious beggars who almost bare and their hair spars, walk around shouting and performing a kind of macabre dance, wielding long acere daggers trimmed with steel chainettes, which they sink hallucines into the chest, arms and thighs, until the gifts of auds They seem sufficient, etched after the drawing of A. de Neuville, illustrating the voyage in India of the Rajahs, in 1864-1868, by Louis Rousselet, published in “” Le tour du monde”” 1873, edited by Edouard Charton, Hachette edition, Paris. Selva Collection., Neuville, Alphonse Marie de (1835-85) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4329260: Cockfighting in the village of Marinilla (Magdalena region, Colombia), very popular sport, practiced in a small oblong arena, set up in the center of the courtyard in front of the houses, the roosters are trained to fight until the death, and betters and judges circulate around the arena. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to New Granada, by Dr. Saffray, in 1869, published in “” Le tour du monde””” 1872, edited by Edouard Charton, edition Hachette, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images