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KWE2619078: The ancient Greek hydraulic semaphore system being used by Aeneas to send a message, 4th century BC, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619080: A Roman telegraph post, after a bas relief on Trajan's Column, Rome, Italy, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619081: Claude Chappe demonstrating his first aerial telegraph system in 1791, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619088: Portrait of composer Jean Francois Sudre (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619091: An early galvanometer, a type of ammeter, a measuring instrument used to measure the electric current in a circuit, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619106: The HMS Agamemnon laying the transatlantic telegraph cable, 2 August, 1858, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619112: Cromwell Fleetwood 'C.F.' Varley, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619115: Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619117: Charles Christofle, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619122: An electric motor invented by Ladislas Adolphe Gaiffe, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619131: Louis-Bernard Guyton, Baron de Morveau, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619140: Francesco Zambeccari, from 'Les Merveilles de la Science', published c.1870 (litho), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2603413: Sketch of Gustave Flaubert as a child, from Gustave Flaubert, published 1935 (litho), Flaubert, Achille (1813-82) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2603429: Countess Claudine Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde, Auld Acquaintance Further Reminiscences, published c.1929 (litho), English School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2603439: Plan of an ancient Greek theatre, from The National Encyclopaedia, published c.1890 (engraving), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619182: Toru Dutt, from 'The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine', published 1884 (wood engraving), American School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619147: Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau, from 'Les Merveilles de la Science', published c.1870 (litho), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619186: Eugène Marin Labiche, from 'The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine', published 1884 (wood engraving), Velten, H. (fl.1850-84) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619193: A Conestoga wagon in the Bull's Head yard, Philadelphia, United States of America, from 'The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine', published 1884 (wood engraving), American School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619196: Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, from 'The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine', published 1884 (wood engraving), Velten, H. (fl.1850-84) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619166: The Miser Who Lost His Treasure, from a late 19th century edition of 'Fables de La Fontaine' (wood engraving), Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2619170: The Shepherd and the King, from a late 19th century edition of Fables de La Fontaine (wood engraving), Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2654800: A scene from William Shakespeare's 'King Richard II', Act 1, Scene 1, Bolingbroke: "Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage", from 'The Works of William Shakespeare', published 1896 (engraving), Browne, Gordon Frederick (1858-1932) / Bridgeman Images
KWE2603419: Uther Pendragon, from Reading from Historical Romances, published 1914 (litho), English School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033727: A war dance by natives of Kimberley Region, western Australia. The warriors mostly carried shields and boomerangs, though one or two had spears. Such a dance took place when two different bodies of natives met and preceeded the single combat. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033739: The body of the late King Chulalonkorn, aka King Rama V, 1853 1910, placed in a golden urn where it remained for many months in state on the top of a beautiful golden pyramid in the Dusit Palace, Bangkok, Thailand, formerly Siam. Fifth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033741: People of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, south east Asia, worshipping at a pagoda. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033742: A Chinese death ceremony involving men dressed as a dragon which tries to devour an golden orb representing the sun. Near Tientsin, China in the 19th century. From Customs of The World, published circa 1913 / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033748: Combat between two elephants with tusks artificially truncated and trunks interlocked, the native attendants were armed with long wands. Southern India in the 19th century. From Customs of The World, published circa 1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033751: A Tibetan Mani-wall, near Leh in the Himalayas, terminated by two relic towers or chorlens. These stone structures are a compilation of intricately carved stone tablets, most with the inscription "Om Mani Padme Hum" which loosely translates to "Hail to the jewel in the lotus" and should be passed or circumvented from the left side, the clockwise direction in which the earth and the universe revolve, according to Buddhist doctrine. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033763: A sea battle between pirate junks and the Imperial Chinese navy during the 19th century. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033765: The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement, 1900. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033774: Map of Muhammadan India before the Mughals circa 1375. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3033780: The destruction of Babylon by Sennacherib in 689 BC, from 'Hutchinson's History of the Nations', publ. 1915 (print), English School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
KWE3039803: Map of Ancient Greece, 500 - 300 BC. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915. / Bridgeman Images
KWE3039805: Athenian statesman, orator, and general Alcibiades (c. 450 404 BC) when a boy, disturbed by a teamster whilst playing dice in the road with his friends. He called upon the man to stop until he had thrown and on the driver's refusal flung himself in front of the cart. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915. / Bridgeman Images