LLH730345: Branle-Bas de Combat (chromolitho), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

LRS888059: Portrait of Casimir-Adrien Barbier de Meynard (1826 - 1908) (black and white photograph), Gerschel, A. (b.1850) / Bridgeman Images

NAM1268348: Major-General Sir James Kempt, c.1824 (oil on canvas), English School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188904: Japan: 'Susu Harai' (Great House Cleaning at Year's End). Three courtesans helping a young samurai rise to his feet. Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), c.1799, Kitagawa, Utamaro (1753-1806) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186117: Iran / Persia / Turkey / Turkmenistan: Sultan Muzaffar al-Din Jahan Shah (1397-1467), 7th bey of the Kara Koyunlua 'Black Sheep' Turkmen. Oil on canvas, Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), first half of the 17th century / Bridgeman Images

LIP1618571: Part of the Funeral Procession of General Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in 1670 (engraving), English School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

LIP1627009: The Royal Military Exhibition at the Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea (engraving), Wilson, Thomas Harrington (fl.1842-86) (after) / Bridgeman Images

XOT361700: St. John on the Island of Patmos receives inspiration from God to create the Apocalypse, 1498 (colour woodcut), Dürer or Duerer, Albrecht (1471-1528) / Bridgeman Images

KWE415626: Saint Paul the Apostle, after an enamel from Limoges by Etienne Mercier, from 'Les Arts au Moyen Age', published 1873 (litho), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

XIR223994: Portrait of Charles X (1757-1836) King of France and Navarre (1824-1830) (engraving) (b/w photo), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

BRH470225: The Battle of Friedland, 14th June 1807, 1835 (oil on canvas), Beaufort, G. (fl.1835) / Bridgeman Images

GLC479174: Major General John Sullivan, 1776 (hand-coloured mezzotint), English School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

STC468730: Akasini, King of Assinie, 1780 (coloured engraving), Duflos, Pierre (1742-1816) / Bridgeman Images

FIA5402771: Portrait of Philippus aureolus paracelsus (in fr. Paracelse, c.1493-1541), c.1550 (watercolour and ink on paper), Anonymous / Bridgeman Images

LLM3625720: L'archange saint Michel (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

XOS3493031: Parade for a tournament, c.1640 (pen and ink, watercolour and washes), German School, (17th century) / Bridgeman Images

DND3609782: Shani, Planet, Miniature Painting on Paper, Indian School / Bridgeman Images

DUV4205876: Letters W and X: "Valkyries; Sherry", in Alphabet francais, 1887 (engraving), Beuzon, Joseph Charles (fl.1892) (after) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4297748: The great comet of October 1528 describes and thus figured by Ambroise Pare in his “Book of Monsters and Wonders”” (1573): “The elders have left us by escrit that the face of Heaven has been so many times defigured of bearded Comettes, hair, torches, torches, coulonnes, spears, shields, battle of nukes, dragons, duplication of Moons & Suns, & other things... This Comette is so horrible and unbearable, that it provoked so great terror to the vulgar that none of them died of fear. The others got sick. This strange Comette lasted an hour & a quarter, and commended to perform from the coste of the rising sun, then fired towards the midnight. It appears to be of excessive length, and if it is of blood color. At the top of this one sees the figure of a curved arm, holding a great espee in the hand as if he had wanted to strike. At the end of the tip there were three estoiles. But the one that is right on the tip, is clearer and brighter than the others. At both sides of this comet's rays, he sees himself a great number of axes, cousteals, espees, bloodshed, parmy which there were many hideous human faces with beards, and hair hairise, as seen by this figure.” Ambroise Pare reproduces in reality a description and an engraving published in 1560 by Pierre Boaistuau (or Pierre Launay) in his “Histoires prodigieuses”, copying those published in 1557 by Conradus Lycosthenes (in fact the German erudit Conrad Wolfhart), who draws these elements from a book published the same year by astrologer Peter Zer- celestial prodigy, sword, mysterious star, mystery, meteore - / Bridgeman Images

XOS5667137: Philip IV in Parade Armor, c.1628 (oil on canvas), Crayer, Gaspar de (1584-1669) / Bridgeman Images

CHT430413: Humorous shop sign of a photographer announcing the new invention of photography, early 20th century (litho), Chinese School / Bridgeman Images

CHT163176: General of the Division, Commander of the Legion of Honour (coloured engraving), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

STC810308: Uniform of Officer & Private of the 52nd Regt. Of Light Infantry, engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl.1780-1812), 1812-15 (hand-coloured aquatint), Smith, Charles Hamilton (1776-1859) (after) / Bridgeman Images

LZT5495099: Soldat de l'infanterie apuye sur un arbre - Barthel Beham (German, 1502 - 1540), Foot-Soldier in Front of a Tree, 1520, engraving / Bridgeman Images

MAI6404849: Kanadehon Chushingura. 12th Act (Junidanme), 19th century (woodblock print on paper), Shigenobu, Yanagawa (1787-1832) / Bridgeman Images

CH3510184: Roman ring stone in modern setting (carnelian set in gold), Roman, (1st century AD) / Bridgeman Images

GNG5283534: Statue of Emmanueli Filiberto III, Turin, Italy / Bridgeman Images

HGP3106472: Statue of King John by Alan Beattie Herriot, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, 2016 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

KDC469435: Risaldar-Major in Full Dress of the Scinde Horse, Indian Army, 1938 (colour litho) / Bridgeman Images

POV1077028: Traditional Rajasthani man sitting crosslegged on ground smoking hookah next to filters for preparing opium drink, sheathed curved sword/sabre across his lap, Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PNP270102: General Lafayette Baker (litho), American Photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

RUS494996: Kataoka Takafusa, from 'The Lives of the Loyal Ronin', 1885 (colour litho), Japanese School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

RUS495013: Tomimori Masakata, from 'The Lives of the Loyal Ronin', 1885 (colour litho), Japanese School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

PRM479218: Portrait of a twenty–two–year–old Japanese man named Sudo Tokiichirō, a samurai and officer (performing the function of secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France, 1864 (albumen print) , Potteau, Jacques-Philippe (1807-76) / Bridgeman Images

PRM479232: Portrait of a twenty–three–year–old Japanese man named Seki Shinpachi, a samurai and officer on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France, employed as an interpreter of English, 1864 (albumen print), Potteau, Jacques-Philippe (1807-76) / Bridgeman Images

PRM479256: Portrait of a seventeen–year–old Japanese youth named Okkotsu Wataru, a samurai and member of the 1864 Ikeda mission to France, employed as the officers' hairdresser, 1864 (albumen print), Potteau, Jacques-Philippe (1807-76) / Bridgeman Images