Images

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), age 35, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by George C. Cox, taken in New York, 1887. Restored by Adam Cuerden. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Wood engraving showing Bluebeard and his wife by Gustave Doré (1832-83). Bluebeard is a character from a French folktale. (National Library of France)

A 1940s photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

A 1927 photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

A 1903 photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

Six Apostles, tempera on wood by Spanish (Oña) Painter, late 15th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The lapidation of Saint Stephen, oil on wood by Rembrandt, 1625. Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

Cherokee beadwork sampler attributed to students of the Cherokee Female Seminary, Park Hill, Oklahoma, c. 1840s. Oklahoma History Center. Photograph by Uyvsdi, 2009.

A photograph showing a walled-off Jewish ghetto in Warsaw following the German occupation of Poland from September 1939. (Imperial War Museums)