Images

Hero and Leander, watercolor by William Hamilton, 1801. Yale Center for British Art.

Photograph of John Brown (1800-1859), abolitionist and member of the Underground Railroad, famous for his raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859, by Levin C. Handy, c. 1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington...

A photograph of Harriet Tubman, former slave and the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, by Harvey B. Lindsley (1842-1921), c. 1871. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Il Violino Magico, 'the magic violin', featuring violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini on a bed of clouds, being presented with a violin by the devil, lithograph on paper, by James Anthony Minasi, 1831.

A profile bust-length portrait of Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer, illustration on paper, by Froer, 1838. The British Museum, London.

The Red Army's liberation of Yelnya from Axis occupation during the Battle of Smolensk in 1943 (August) during the Second World War (1939-45).

A 1939 photograph of the German general Günther von Kluge (1882-1944). (German Federal Archives)

A 1945 photograph of the Soviet Union's Red Army Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky (1897-1968).

A gold mohur coin issued by Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-28) bearing a portrait of his Father, Akbar. The coin was issued in 1605, the first year of Jahangir's reign. The inscription in Arabic next to the portrait translates as 'Allahu...

Dr. Faustus meets the Devil, a scene from Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus. Image from Wellcome Images.