ID: LSE4099257

Buccaneers and women flibustier: the pirate Jack Rackham says the Red or John Rackham, better known as Calico Jack (? -1720) represented with Anne Bonny (Bonney) and Mary (Marc) Read in the West Indies. Plate taken from “” The old and modern costume”” by Ferrario, ed. Milan, 1819-1820

Ferrario, Giulio (1767-1847)

ID: LRI4661197

The army of the Geants (Rephaim or Nephilim) who were beaten by the army of King David Miniature taken from “Codex de l'Octateuque du Serail” (ms.8 or Seraglio Octateuch) 12th century Topkapi Sarayi Museum Library Istanbul

Unknown Artist, (12th century)

ID: GIA4775472

Scene of “” Cola Rienzi, the last of the Tribuns”” (Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen), opera by Richard Wagner representing the Heros Rienzi with Irene in the Capitol Palace. 1842. Engraving.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: BAL72696

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, c.1596 (oil on canvas)

Gheeraerts, Marcus, the Younger (c.1561-1635)

ID: NCO190177

Pacific-Overtures, or A Flight from St. Clouds 'over the water to Charley' - a new Dramatic Peace now Rehearsing, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1806 (hand-coloured etching)

Gillray, James (1757-1815)

ID: FIA5374250

The expulsion of the Khan Batou (around 1205-1255) (The Expulsion of Batu Khan), 1940 (watercolour on paper)

Bilibin, Ivan (1876-1942)

ID: BAL47602

The Battle between the Israelites and the Amorites, 1625-26 (oil on canvas)

Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665)

ID: CH3066535

Rinaldo and Armida, 1704 (oil on canvas)

Boullogne, Louis de (1654-1733)

ID: BST216032

St. Catherine of Alexandria at Prayer, c.1567 (oil on canvas)

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c.1488-1576)

ID: ROC930027

Sir James Kempt, 1836 (oil on canvas)

McInnes, Robert (1801-86)

ID: XLA3763982

A pitched Battle, woodcut by Urs Graf, 1521

Graf, Urs (The Elder) (1485-1528)

ID: BAL4848

Crown Prince Frederick by the corpse of General Douay at the Battle of Wissembourg, 1870 (oil on canvas)

Werner, Anton Alexander von (1843-1915)

ID: XIR164813

The Four Sons of Aymon are chased away by Charlemagne (742-814), king of France, from 'Renaud' or 'Les Quatre Fils Aymon', c.1483 (xylograph)

French School, (15th century)

ID: STC373472

Edward I's wars with the Welsh - how the King shared the hardships of his men, illustration from 'A History of England' by C.R.L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, 1911 (litho)

Ford, Henry Justice (1860-1941)

ID: PFH1174574

Iraq / Italy: Shop selling torches and candles. Illustration from Ibn Butlan's Taqwim al-sihhah or 'Maintenance of Health' (Baghdad, 11th century) published in Italy as the Tacuinum Sanitatis in the 14th century

Italian School, (14th century)

ID: XLF3781125

'The Magic Shop'

Mercer, Joyce (d. 1965)

ID: TRK2973370

Banner of the Inquisition in Goa, 1692 (coloured engraving)

ID: XCF306876

Two Benin Plaques, Nigeria (brass)

Beninois School

ID: GNM283978

Two floor tiles from the Fransican monastery in Ulm, c.1300 (fired clay)

German School, (14th century)

ID: STC255276

Horatio Nelson boarding the San Josef at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14th February 1797, engraved by John Crew after the original in Greenwich Hospital Collection (engraving)

Jones, George (1786-1869) (after)

ID: PFH2641717

Germany / Vietnam: left to right, Women of Tonkin, Riflemen from Tonkin, "Munchner Bilderbogen", Braun & Schneider, 1861-1890

ID: AKM210045

Battle of Antietam in 1862, 1865 (litho) (b/w photo)

Rosenthal, Max (1833-1918)

ID: CH19386

Rt. Hon. Francis Rawdon Hastings (1754-1826) (oil on canvas)

Raeburn, Henry (1756-1823)

ID: TRK1018100

Warsaw Mermaid, 1855, by Konstanty Hegel (1799-1876). Poland.

ID: JHL701508

Captain Holland, c.1860 (b/w photo)

European Photographer, (19th century)

ID: LLM725470

The three allied rulers at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. (colour litho)

Rohling, Carl (1849-1922)

ID: SBL1108915

Detail of The Fortune Teller, c.1595 (oil on canvas)

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571-1610)

ID: AGC5958626

Illustration from "The Iron King (Le Roi de fer)" by Maurice Druon, 1957 (colour litho)

Endrikson, Evgenia (1907-94)

ID: NWI4958410

Reconstruction described as the reform of equal rights, 1868. Coloured engraving, based on an illustration by Thomas Nast, 19th century.

ID: NWI4959439

King John Sans Terre (John of England or John Lackland, 1167-1216) received the Magna Carta Libertatum (or Magna Carta) in order to subscribe to it, 1215. Engraving on wood, colour, 19th century.

ID: LSE4328591

The scars, Muslims in procession during the commemorative feast of the martyrdom of Hossein, hit their head with a sword, each of them covered with a white sheet, to collect the blood flowing from their wounds. Engraving to illustrate the voyage in the provinces of the Caucasus, by Basile Vereschaguine, in 1864-1865, published in “” le tour du monde””, under the direction of D'Edouard Charton, Hachette, Paris 1869.Selva Collection.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: FIA5344600

Portrait Of Alexandre Nevski, Prince Of Novgorod, Grand Duke Of Vladimir (1220-1263), 1724 (oil on canvas)

Russian School, (18th century)

ID: LLH6030938

The Coast Guard (litho)

Onwhyn, Thomas (c.1820-86)

ID: CHT203319

Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821-1910) in the role of Tancredi in the opera by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) at the Theatre Italien, Paris (coloured engraving)

French School, (19th century)

ID: MAM713599

Warrior on Horse (woodblock print)

Kuniyasu, Utagawa (1794-1832)

ID: TBM423191

Prince Hunting Wild Boar (Miniature Painting), 1765 (opaque w/c & gold on paper)

Indian School, (18th century)