Images

Sketch of Maximilien Robespierre on the way to the guillotine, 28 July 1794, attributed to Jacques-Louis David. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

The Story of Tutankhamun: An Intimate Life of the Boy Who Became King by Garry Shaw.

Allegory of the Concordat of 1801, painting by Pierre Joseph Célestin François, 1802. Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison.

Portrait of Pope Pius VII, oil on panel by Jacques-Louis David, 1805. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Portrait of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by an unknown artist, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 19th century. Palace of Versailles.

Louis XVIII of France in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, c. 1814. Hôtel Beauharnais, Paris.

Signature of the Concordat between France and the Holy See, 15 July 1801, drawing by François Gérard, 19th century. Palace of Versailles.

An 18th-century engraving by James Gilray of Haidar Ali, ruler of the southern Indian kingdom of Mysore from 1761 to 1782. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A c. 1804 illustration of Bangalore fort flying the flag of Tipu Sultan (d. 1799), ruler of the Indian state of Mysore.

A c. 1800 painting showing the last stand of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore in 1799 at the end of the Anglo-Mysore Wars with the East India Company.