Design Pics/Historical RM Images

EngraVIng titled 'Goethe in Weimar' by German painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874) depicting a performance of Iphigenia in Tauris featuring Goeth...

Sydney Smith, 1771 ??" 1845. English wit, writer and Anglican cleric. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

John Henry Newman, 1801 ??" 1890. Catholic cardinal and theologian. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

Thoreau's birthplace, the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse in Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America. Henry DaVId Thoreau, 1817 ??" 1862. American e...

The Sz??chenyi Chain Bridge, in the 19th century, spanning the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capi...

Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, 1804 ??" 1876, aka by her pseudonym George Sand. French novelist and memoirist. From The International Library of Famou...

James Freeman Clarke, 1810 ??" 1888. American theologian and author. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

Home of Disraeli, Hughendon Manor, Bucks, England. Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804 ??" 1881. British politician and writer who twic...

Louis XIV as a Roman emperor, centre, 1638 ??" 1715, aka Louis the Great or the Sun King. Monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France....

General VIew of the Grand Carousel, given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries, Paris, France, 5th June 1662, to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin....

The Prince of Conde as the Emperor of Turkey, part of the Grand Carousel Given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries, Paris, France, 5th June 1662,...

Turkish drummer and trumpet player. Part of the Grand Carousel given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries, Paris, France, 5th June 1662, to celebra...

Philippe I, 1640-1701, Duke of Orleans, as the King of Persia. Part of the Grand Carousel given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries, Paris, France,...

Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise,1614 ??" 1664, as an American king. Part of the Grand Carousel given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries...

Persian domestic grooms, armed and in livery, charged to carry the mantle and arms of their masters, to hold the stirrup etc. Part of the Grand Carous...

Indian drummer and trumpet player. Part of the Grand Carousel given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries, Paris, France, 5th June 1662, to celebrat...

The great procession at the Grand Carousel, given by Louis XIV in front of the Tuileries, Paris, France, 5th June 1662, to celebrate the birth of the...

Centre panel of the Triptych of Jan Floreins by Hans Memling, c. 1430/1440 - 1494. Adoration of the Magi. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

Exterior panel of the Triptych of Jan Floreins by Hans Memling, c. 1430/1440 - 1494. Saint Veronica holding the Shroud of Turin. From L'Illustration...

Exterior panel of the Triptych of Jan Floreins by Hans Memling, c. 1430/1440 - 1494. Adoration of the Magi. From L'Illustration, published 1936. Fr...

VIrgin and Child, reverse of the Reliquary of Saint Ursula. The reliquary of Ursula was commissioned to Memling by the monastic community of Saint Joh...

Detail of the Reliquary of Saint Ursula, 1489. Saint Ursula arriVIng at Cologne. The reliquary of Ursula was commissioned to Memling by the monastic c...

Detail of the Reliquary of Saint Ursula, 1489. Saint Ursula arriVIng at Rome. The reliquary of Ursula was commissioned to Memling by the monastic com...

Detail of the Reliquary of Saint Ursula, 1489. The martydom of the VIrgins. The reliquary of Ursula was commissioned to Memling by the monastic comm...

Detail of the Reliquary of Saint Ursula, 1489. The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. The reliquary of Ursula was commissioned to Memling by the monastic com...

Louis XIV as a Roman emperor, centre, 1638 ??" 1715, aka Louis the Great or the Sun King. Monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France....

Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove, 1487, by Hans Memling. VIrgin and Child. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

Portrait of a Young Woman, 1480, after Hans Memling. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1771 ??" 1835, aka Baron Gros. French history and neoclassical painter. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

Madame Poussielgue, nee Hersemeille de la Roche, aged 23 in 1797. After the painting by Antoine-Jean Gros aka Baron Gros. From L'Illustration, publis...

Detail of the painting by Antoine-Jean Gros aka Baron Gros, Napol??on on the field of Eylau, 1807. Napol??on Bonaparte, 1769 ??" 1821. French military...

Portrait of Jeanne-Fran??oise Julie Ad??la?Zde R??camier, 1777 ??" 1849, aka Madame R??camier and Juliette. French socialite. After the painting by...

Prince Boris NikolaeVIch Yusupov, 1794-1849. After the painting by Antoine-Jean Gros aka Baron Gros. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

La rue du Carrousel, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by J. Canella. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

The H??tel de Sens, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by Fran??ois VIlleret. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

The Quai du Louvre and the Pont des Arts, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by Richard Parkes Bonington. From L'Illustration, pu...

L'??glise Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois and Le Rue des Pretres, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by Charles Louis Mozin. From L'Ill...

Le Pont Marie, Paris, France in the 19th century, After the painting by Charles Francois Daubigny. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

La Rue de la Paix, with the Memorial column at Place Vendome in the background, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by J. Canella....

Le Moulin de Montmartre, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by Georges Michel. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

La Rue Jean Tison, Paris, France in the 19th century. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

The Church of St Eustache, Paris, France in the 19th century. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

The Footprint on the Sand, from Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Gil Blas is Dismissed. Illustration from the novel The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-Ren?? Lesage. From The International Library of...

Margaret "Peg" Woffington, 1720 ??" 1760. Irish actress in Georgian London. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, 1859 ??"1930. British writer and physician. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, 1645 ??" 1689, aka The Hanging Judge. Welsh judge and Lord Chief Justice of England. From The Internatio...

Voltaire's ch??teau at Ferney, France. Fran??ois-Marie Arouet , 1694 ??" 1778, known by his nom de plume Voltaire. French Enlightenment writer, histo...

Henry St John, 1st VIscount Bolingbroke, 1678 ??" 1751. English politician, government official and political philosopher. From The International Li...

DaVId Hume, 1711 - 1776. Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c....