FLO4695684: Native woman of Erikub Atoll, Ratak chain, Marshall Islands, with rolled pandanus-leaf earrings, necklace and tattoos. Woman of the Tchichagoff Islands. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature. After an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the world, 1822. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4695709: Kadoo, a native of the Caroline Islands, with elongated earlobes, necklace and tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature. After an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the world, 1822. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4696007: The apotheosis of the Republic of Genes with the Allegory of Divine Knowledge (in the center) On top, Liguria distributes tresors to the Provinces and on bottom Janus making a sacrifice for Peace. Fresco by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737-1795) 1780-1782 Dim. 250x500 cm Voute of the Council Room of the Ducal Palace in Genes, Italy, Ratti, Carlo Giuseppe (1737-1795) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4706326: Maria Theresa (1638-1683), Infanta of Spain, 1660. Illustration copied from Laumosnier's painting “” Meeting between Louis XIV of France and Philippe IV of Spain.”” Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Peoples of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the New Era,”” written by Leopold Ziegelhauser, Vienna, 1837 / Bridgeman Images
TEC4710975: L'Hotel de Sully, 62 rue Saint-Antoine (Saint Antoine), Paris 4. Architecture by Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585-1649), 1625-1630. The hotel de Sully was built between 1625 and 1630 by the master macon Jean Notin, on plans of Jean I Androuet du Cerceau, for the financier Mesme-Gallet. Sully became owner on 23 February 1634. He lived there and passed it on to his family. Henri IV's Superintendent of Finance will lavishly decorate his new home, without staying there assiduously. The hotel was sold to Benoit Turgot de Saint-Clair in 1752, before becoming the property of the family of Boisgelin 1771. Today it houses Monum, the former National Historic Monument Fund. / Bridgeman Images