The White League and the Ku Klux Klan Worse than Slavery cartoon from Harpers Weekly 1874 -
Thomas Nast
The Mad Hatters Tea Party, illustration from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 1832-9 -
John Tenniel
Ms Sup Turc 693 fol.96v Inspection of the Male Urethra, 1466 -
Charaf-ed-Din
Patrick Henry in the House of Burgesses of Virginia, Delivering his Celebrated Speech Against the Stamp Act 1851 -
Peter F. Rothermel
Macbeth, the Three Witches and Hecate in Act IV, Scene I of 'Macbeth' -
John Boydel
King John signing the Magna Carta reluctantly -
A.C. Michael
Hamlet before King Claudius, Queen Gertrude and Ophelia, scene from Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1564-1616 c.1900 -
Christian August Printz
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, illustration from Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, 1872 -
John Tenniel
Exploration of the Great Pyramid of Giza, from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario, engraved by Gaetano Zancon 1771-1816 -
Alessandro Sanquirico
The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, illustration from Hutchinsons History of the Nations, early 1900s -
Sir Edward John Poynter
Scrooge and Bob Cratchit, from Dickens A Christmas Carol -
Arthur Rackham
A conflict between Guards and Russian Troops during the Crimean War, from an album of paintings and sketches known as 'Cadogan's Crimea', c.1856 -
George Cadogan
Execution of Tsar Nicholas II 1868-1918 and his Family at Yekaterinburg, 17th July 1918, from Histoire des Soviets by H. de Weindel, 1923-24 -
S. Sarmat
The Trial of the Knave of Hearts, illustration from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 1832-9 -
John Tenniel
George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, January 3rd 1777, from 'Life and Times of Washington', Volume I, 1857 -
Alonzo Chappel
Celtic people at the time of Julius Caesar, illustration from 'Le Costume Ancien ou Moderne' 1820 -
G. Bramati
American cowboys surround a bear crouched over the body of a cow -
Stanley L. Wood
The Private Dining Room, Windsor Castle, from Windsor and its Surrounding Scenery, 1838 -
James Baker Pyne
The Reign of Antichrist, from the Liber Chronicarum, published in 1493, illustration from, Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, written and engraved by Paul Lacroix, 1878 -
Michael Wolgemut
Costume design for a jester for A Midsummer Nights Dream c.1881-93 -
C. Wilhelm
A Young Girl from Timbuktoo Being Offered by a Slave Master in Tripoli in 1854, from Voyages au Soudan et dans LAfrique Septentrionale, engraved by A. Adam, 1850 -
Pierre Tremaux
Oberon and Titania from A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare 1564-1616 1806 -
Thomas Stothard
A Janissary and a Merchant in Cairo, illustration from The Valley of the Nile, engraved by Charles Bour 1814-81 pub. by Lemercier, 1848 -
Emile Prisse d'Avennes
Races every Sunday, poster advertising the 'Vel d'Hiv' (velodrome d'hiver), 1910 -
Jacques Cancaret
Seminole indians ambush a US marines supply wagon, 11th September 1812 -
C.H. Waterhouse
'L'Apres Midi d'un Faune', costume design for Nijinsky (1890-1950) from 'l'Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst' -
Leon (Samoilovitch) Bakst
The O-Kee-Pa self-torture religious ceremony of the Mandan tribe, from a painting of c.1835 -
George Catlin