Images

The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. Dec. 22nd 1620, lithographic print by Currier & Ives, 1876. Based on the original painting by Lucy Charles, c. 1850. This scene dramatizes the arrival of the Pilgrims (a group of English settlers...

An East Perspective View of the City of Philadelphia, print engraved by John Carwitham, c. 1778. Based on the original illustration by George Heap, 1752. This panoramic view of the bustling Philadelphia harbour and cityscape came to print...

Powder horn depicting Charles Town, South Carolina, 1770. Used for carrying gunpowder, this pre-Revolution powder horn is engraved with the fortified city of Charles Town (now Charleston), along with a fleet of ships in the harbour (not...

Silver shilling from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by John Hull and Robert Sanderson, c. 1667 to c. 1682. The Massachusetts Bay Colony mint, from which this stamped coin originates, was established to increase the availability of hard currency...

Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves, oil on canvas by George Morland, c. 1788. Depicted here is a scene of a man being abducted by slavers on the coast of Africa as his family watches. From the 16th to the 19th century...

Galeazze, book illustration by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, included in Atlante Veneto (1690-1701), Vol. 1, 1693. Two Venetian galleasses are seen here in close proximity with their oars out. Looking closely at the front of the ship reveals...

View of the Arsenal gate populated by Venetian men and women, etching and engraving on paper by Giacomo Franco, 1610. Workers, both men and women, leaving the gates of the Arsenale with their work tools in 1610. The southern land entrance...

Venetia, part of a larger map drawing probably by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, included in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Vol. 1, p. 44, Cologne, 1593-1618. This is an aerial view of what the Arsenal looked like in late 16th- or early 17th-century...

The Marble Lion of Piraeus, book illustration by an unknown artist, included in Antiquités de l'Orient by Carl Christian Rafn, p. 54, Copenhagen, 1856. This lion is one of several that were brought to Venice from Greece and set outside the...

View of the entrance to the Arsenal, oil on canvas painting by Canaletto, c. 1732. This waterfront view shows the southern entrance to the Arsenal. The famous Piraeus Lions are featured in this land entrance to the left and showcased Venice's...