ID: PFH2966241

Germany / Europe: A scene from 'The Dance of Death' by Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543)

Holbein the Younger, Hans (1497/8-1543) (after)

ID: PFH2562681

Japan: A 'kokugo' is a type of yokai (supernatural monster) that guards shrines. If a human damages or defaces a shrine, the kokugo will collapse the torii or shrine gateway on the head of the offender. Sawaki Suushi, 'Hyakkai Zukan', 1737

ID: PFH2635178

Mali: Illuminated Arabic manuscript from the Al-Imam Essayouti Manuscript Library, Timbuktu, c. 17th century

ID: PFH3277974

Egypt: Mosque lamp from the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-Bunduqdari, enamelled and gilded glass, Mamluk Sultanate (1250 - 1517), Cairo, c. 1285

ID: NAM5924660

Heralds and Trumpeters at the Delhi Durbar, 1911 (b/w photo)

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: PFH1163896

Sri Lanka: The Valaikkara Stone Inscription at Polonnaruwa, c. 1100 CE

ID: USB1157346

Christ comparing Himself and his Disciples to a Hen and her Chicks

Netherlandish School (16th century)

ID: MAA2956831

The Lady Chapel and Apse of Bourges Cathedral, 1899 (w/c on paper)

Rooke, Thomas Matthews (1842-1942)

ID: PFH2635645

Nepal: A complex lock on a temple door covered in 'kumkuma' powder, Patan, Kathmandu Valley (1998)

ID: NAM5920239

29th Indian Infantry Brigade in the trenches, Gallipoli, 1915 (b/w photo)

Savory, Reginald (1894-1980)

ID: USB1162480

John Wolryche MP (1637-1685)

English School, (17th century)

ID: CH7076304

The Creation of the Epicycles, miniature on a cutting from Guillaume de Digulleville's Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme, in French, Metz, c.1440 (ink on vellum)

French School, (15th century)

ID: PFH1773849

Japan: Izumi Shikibu (10th-11th century), mid-Heian Period Japanese poetess. From the series 'Lives of Wise and Heroic Women', Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), 1841-1842

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1169865

Netherlands/ Mauritius: Van Warwijk's sailors on the island of Mauritius, claimed by the Dutch in 1598. Note the Dutch coat of arms nailed to a tree in the center, making it clear who is colonizing the island.

ID: PFH2641743

Japan: 'Kung-Twa at Lew-Chew' (Ryukyu Islands), Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885), 1856 (colour litho)

ID: SAP616536

Lindos, St. Paul Harbor

ID: SAP616571

Harbor, Mandraki Marina

ID: SAP616538

Lindos, Monumental Staircase and Church

ID: SAP616540

Lindos, Acropolis and Modern City

ID: STC384902

The Porta Capena or Porta San Sebastiano, 1833 (etching with brown wash)

Tofanelli, Agostino (1770-1834)

ID: LRI4567927

The liberal arts: Trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) (engraving, 1508)

Unknown Artist, (16th century)

ID: PFH1171296

Iran: A Parsi 'Tower of Silence' near Teheran, photographed by Sven Hedin c.1898.

ID: PFH2966240

Germany / Europe: A scene from 'The Dance of Death'

Holbein the Younger, Hans (1497/8-1543) (after)

ID: VIS693422

islamic art-ewer-copper alloy engraved and inlaid with silver-inv.n.15091-Ayyubid 13th century-MIA - 29 11 10 030

ID: MAN3674785

The Apotheosis of Italian Art, 1885-86 (w/c on paper)

Crane, Walter (1845-1915)

ID: BAL130542

Dancers in front of Broom Plants, 13th century (vellum)

ID: SAP616531

Lindos, Acropolis and Modern City

ID: SAP616530

Lindos, Monumental Staircase and Church

ID: SAP616539

Lindos, Monumental Staircase and Church

ID: PRX3125031

Gentleman and noblewoman

German School, (15th century)

ID: NAM5929416

Horse-drawn transports, possibly an artillery train, passing the ruined Cloth Hall, Ypres, 1917 (oil on paper)

Holiday, Charles Gilbert (1879-1937)

ID: SAP616537

Lindos, St. Paul Harbor

ID: SAP616572

Harbor, Mandraki Marina

ID: SAP616545

Harbor, Mandraki Marina

ID: SAP616570

Harbor, Mandraki Marina

ID: PFH2839114

India: Vultures perch atop a Parsee dakhma or 'Tower of Silence', Malabar Hill, Bombay / Mumbai, c. 1890