ID: XEE4168024

First World War (1914-1918): French soldiers using a gas mask against the use of asphyxiating gases by the Germans in a trench in 1915.

Unknown photographer, (19th-20th century)

ID: XEE4168226

World Exhibition 1878 in Paris: solar furnace invented by Augustin Mouchot (1823-1912). Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1125 of 19 October 1878.

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4168740

Attack on Lord Charles Hardinge Vice King of India in Delhi, 1913 (print)

Unknown Artist

ID: XEE4168192

Canaque revolt in New Caledonia, 1878: canaque warriors weapons. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1113 of 27 July 1878.

French School, (19th century)

ID: LLM3633706

The Judgement of Paris (colour litho)

Theaker, Harry George (1873-1954)

ID: XEE4145708

The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 8: Virgil and Dante disembark at the citadel of Dis - by Dante Alighieri, 1885

Dore, Gustave (1832-83)

ID: XEE4145649

The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 19: Dante rebukes Pope Nicholas III in the fourth bolgia - by Dante Alighieri, 1885

Dore, Gustave (1832-83)

ID: XEE4148360

Portrait of GEORGE ELIOT Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans - English novelist

Unknown Artist

ID: XEE4146866

First Crusade: the siege and the capture of Jerusalem by the croises led by Godefroy (Godefroi) de Bouillon (1058-1100) in 1099 - Godfrey de Bouillon at the Siege of Jerusalem - Engraving of the end of the 19th century in “” Nos Gires Nationales - Images et recits””

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4149787

Calas case: on 13 October 1761, Marc Antoine Calas is found hanged in the family boutique in Toulouse - Engraving in “” Causes celebres de tous les peuples”” by Armand Fouquier (1817-18?) 1858-1867 - private collection

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4147589

Architecture: interior view of the Metallic Bridge of Bordeaux, Gironde (33), 1860. It was built by engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) between 1858 and 1860. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°176 of 25 August 1860.

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4192153

Louis XVI (1754-1793) visiting the first potato field in the plain of the Sablons (present-day avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris), Antoine Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813) offered him potato flowers, around 1785. Engraving in “” La Nature. Revue des sciences et de ses applications aux arts et a l'industrie”, 1886.

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4149662

Case of the Tower of Nesle, 1314: the princesses Marguerite of Burgundy (1290-1315), Blanche of Burgundy (ca. 1296-1326) and Jeanne of Burgundy (ca. 1291-1330) celebrating with their lovers, Philippe d'Aulnay (d'Aunay) (d. 1314), Gauthier d'Aulnay (d. 1314) and Firmin de Rebours at the abbey of Maubuisson - Engraving from 1871 in “” Histoire Des Celebres” by Henry de Kock (1819-1892)

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4150876

Portrait of Etienne Dolet, French scholar, translator and printer, 1863 (engraving)

Anonymous

ID: XEE4160621

portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1893 (litho)

Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931)

ID: XEE4188234

Round the world by plane organized by the Aero Club of America, 13/06/1920 (print)

Anonymous

ID: XEE4164536

Portrait of Saint John Eudes French priest and founder of the Eudists Catholic congregation1925.

ID: XEE4163337

Lawsuit of the Affair of the Necklace of the queen Marie-Antoinette, 1870 (engraving)

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4163370

Portrait of Madame Desbordes Valmore (Marceline Felicite Josephine Desbordes-Valmore, 1786-1859), French poetess by Nadar

Nadar, (Gaspard Felix Tournachon) (1820-1910)

ID: XEE4162419

Portrait of Louis de Rouvroy Duke of Saint-Simon - (Saint Simon) French soldier, diplomat and noted diarist - Portrait of Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint Simon (1675-1755) memorialist

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4144882

Wedgwood at work, Ceramics pioneer Josiah Wedgwood in his workshop. From the book “The Wedgwood Museum”, Etruria, London, published by F. Rathbone, 1901

French School, (20th century)

ID: XEE4155280

Cameleon - Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) - engraving from “” Brehm's Life of Animals”” by Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884)

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4155767

Portrait of the Italian composer Luigi Cherubini (print)

Unknown Artist

ID: XEE4152104

Atelier de Canut a Lyon - the oldest canut of the Grand Cote since 1814 engraving in “Le Progres illustrious”” of 1895

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4154134

Illustration for “The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe (chromo)

Nehlig, L. (19th century)

ID: XEE4151966

Internal view of the Italian Parliament, Turin, 1861. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°212 of 4 May 1861.

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4179896

Punishment at school: student punished with a dunce's cap for talking with his classmates.late 19th century (print)

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4181894

Portrait of Johann Ulrich Megerle, dit Abraham a Sancta (Santa) Clara 1607-1680. Popular predictor of Austria baroque.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4182513

Portrait of Ludwig Joachim von Arnim dit Achim von Arnim (1781-1831), German novelist, columnist, playwright and romantic poet.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4137147

Theatrical representation: “” Chatterton”” (act III, scene VI) by Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) given at the Comedie Francaise in Paris, 1858. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°41 of 23 January 1858.

French School, (19th century)

ID: MAA5889239

Norah (oil on canvas)

Fildes, Samuel Luke (1844-1927)

ID: JLJ4678100

Metal manufacturing, the cutting mill. Illustrated board from "The Encyclopedie of Diderot and Alembert", 18th century (engraving)

Unknown artist, (18th century)

ID: GIA4715771

Portrait of Euclid (3rd century BC). Greek mathematician.

Unknown Artist

ID: ELD4876799

Ancient Rome: the suicide of Roman Emperor Gordian I (158-238) (Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus Africanus) announced the death of his son in 238” (Ancient rome: the death of roman emperor Gordian I, 238) Engraving from “” The Roman Imperresses” 1888 Private collection

ID: ELD4856892

American scientific and industrial inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931) posing with his cylinder phonograph, April 1878 (photo)

Handy, C Levin (1855-1932)

ID: ELD4965945

Scurvy disease Engraving from “Nature and Man” by Rengade 1881

Demarle, Alphonse (1826-1896)