Design Pics/Historical RM Images

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, 1788 ??" 1824, aka Lord Byron. English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic mov...

Cellini in his studio. Benvenuto Cellini, 1500 ??" 1571. Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, artist and author. From The Inte...

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542 ??" 1587, aka Mary Stuart or Mary I. Queen of Scotland. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c...

Sancho Panza entering as governor of the island of Barataria. After a scene in Miguel de Cervante's novel Don Quixote of La Mancha. From The Interna...

"Ordered the cane to be broken in two... It was done and in the middle of it they found ten gold crowns". After a scene in Miguel de Cervante's novel...

Martin Luther, 1483 - 1546. German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. From The Inter...

John CalVIn, born Jehan CauVIn,1509 ??" 1564. French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation. From The International Librar...

"The princess happened to walk that way" from the story The Swineherd. Colour illustration by Helen Stratton from the book Hans Andersen's Fairy Tale...

"The little swallow was flying past" from the story Tommelise. Colour illustration by Helen Stratton from the book Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales publis...

" The watchman finds himself on the moon" from the story The Watchman's Adventures. Colour illustration by Helen Stratton from the book Hans Andersen...

First communication with the natives of Prince Regent's Bay. John Ross explored Prince Regent's Bay in north-west Greenland during his 1818 expedition...

Sir Martin Frobisher, c. 1535 ??" 1594. English seaman, privateer and explorer. After the painting by Cornelis Ketel. From British Polar Explorer...

Greenland whale fishery in the 18th century. From British Polar Explorers, published 1943.

Native Eskimos fishing in the ice, 19th century. From British Polar Explorers, published 1943.

Whaling. After a woodcut from J. van der Brugge's Journal, 1634. From British Polar Explorers, published 1943.

Passage through the ice, June 1818. After a coloured aquatint from Sir John Ross's Voyage of Discovery, 1819. Admiral Sir John Ross, 1777 ??" 1856....

North Pole. After an imaginary sketch by Sir John Ross. Admiral Sir John Ross, 1777 ??" 1856. British naval officer and Arctic explorer. From Brit...

A relief party in search of Sir Jon Franklin. Sir John Franklin, 1786 ??" 1847. English Royal Navy officer, explorer of the Arctic and Lieutenant-Gov...

A gale in the Arctic ice pack, January 1842. After a lithograph by DaVIs, from Ross's Voyage of Discovery, 1839-1843. From British Polar Explorers,...

Terra Nova, captive in heavy ice pack. After a photograph taken by Ponting. The Terra Nova was the supply ship in Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic E...

Interior of a Cree Indian Tent. After a coloured aquatint from Sir John Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, 1819-1822....

VIew of the arctic sea from the mouth of the Copper Mine River, midnight, July 1821. After a coloured aquatint from Sir John Franklin's Narrative of...

Dog sledge, showing Mount Erebus in the background. After a photograph taken by Ponting during Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition,...

The ship Endurance crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea during Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914 - 1916. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, 1874 ??" 192...

Sir James Clark Ross, 1800 ??" 1862. British naval officer and explorer. From British Polar Explorers, published 1943.

Looking north in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. After a watercolour by E. A. Wilson. Edward Adrian Wilson, 1872 ??" 1912. English physician, polar exp...

William Henry Kennedy, 1891-1928. Tried and hanged for the murder of police constable George William Gutteridge on September 27, 1927. From The Page...

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, 1841 ??" 1929. French politician, physician, journalist and Prime Minister of France during the First World War. From T...

The Bennie Railplane. A form of rail transport invented by George Bennie (1891??"1957), which moved along an overhead rail by way of propellers. Fro...

The world's largest typewriter on display at the Business Efficiency Exhibition, White City, London, England in 1931. From The Pageant of the Century,...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi,1869 ??" 1948. Indian actiVIst, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Seen...

Amy Johnson says farewell to her husband, Jim Mollison, before taking off on her successful attempt to establish a new record to the Cape in 1932. Amy...

Men on ladders painting a small section of the largest tote board in the world which was erected in the White City Stadium, London, England in time fo...

Herbert John Louis Hinkler, 1892 ??" 1933, aka Bert Hinkler. Pioneer Australian aVIator, inventor and the first person to fly solo across the Souther...

"Westward Ho!" A voyage of discovery. A 15th century English sailing ship. Frontispiece from The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

An old VIking custom was to raise the VIctorious captain on the shields of two warriors. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

William Dampier aboard the HMS Roebuck surveys the New Guinea coast during the Roebuck Expedition of 1699. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

A Man-o-War in Nelson's day. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, breaking the French Line during the Battle of Saintes aka Battle of Dominica,1782. From The Book of Ships, p...

The Battle of Scheveningen, aka the Battle of Texel or the Battle of Ter Heijde, 1653. Final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War. The death of...

The Battle of Trafalgar,21 October 1805, Cape Trafalgar, Spain. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

Sea naVIgation and exploration in 1492. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

The ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery off the coast of Australia during the Third Voyage of Captain James Cook, 1776-1780. From The Book of Ship...

An ocean going liner in the 1920's. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

The Hougomont, a four-masted steel barque, setting sail from Falmouth, England. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

A cruise liner passing through the Panama canal. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

The lifeboat, the Red Cross of the Sea, a boat rescue craft used to attend a vessel in distress, or its surVIvors, to rescue crew and passengers. Fro...

Traditional craft on the Irrawaddy River, Myanmar. Progress is made by poling, a crew being diVIded along each side of the ship, while the helmsman si...

A Cunard liner lying off Constantinople, present day Istanbul, Turkey, 1920's. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.

One of the first successful steam boats, Jonathan Hulls steam tug, 1737. From The Book of Ships, published c.1920.