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Vesalius Dissecting a Human Body
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The frontispiece of On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543) by Andreas Vesalius (1514-64). The anatomist is shown making a dissection of a human body. (National Library of Medicine)
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Aethelstan
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Aethelstan (also given as Athelstan) - the figure on the left - reigned as King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924–927 CE and as King of the English from 927-939 CE. He is here depicted in the frontispiece of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert as presenting...
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Juvenal
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Statue of Junius Juvenal on a pedestal lettered with his name, holding a scroll. Frontispiece to Robert Stapylton's Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal (London: 1660 CE). Etching after Robert Streeter...
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Olaudah Equiano, Abolitionist Writer, c. 1789
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Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797), the abolitionist writer, by the English artist Daniel Orme (l. 1766-1837), frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography (published 1789).
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The Amistad Revolt
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Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July 1839, color engraving and frontispiece from John Warner Barber (1840). A History of the Amistad Captives. New Haven, Connecticut: E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers...
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A Pirate Captain by Howard Pyle
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Captain Keitt, a detail from the frontispiece of The Ruby of Kishmoor, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). First published in 1908.
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Mourt's Relation
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Frontispiece of "Mourt's Relation," published in 1622 CE in London. It is the earliest published account of the Mayflower voyage and the foundation of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
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Solomon Northup - Author of Twelve Years a Slave
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Portrait of Solomon Northup in his plantation suit, by Frederick M. Coffin, frontispiece to an 1859 edition of Twelve Years a Slave, first published in 1853.