View of Bruges by Charles Kuwasseg

The Last Chapter by James Doyle Penrose

Bilbo woke up with the early sun in his eyes by J.R.R. Tolkien

Desert Encampment by Peder Mørk Mønsted

Childhood Friends by Carl Spitzweg

On the Bosphorus by Carlo Bossoli

The Formation of Eve by Gustave Doré

Robe sword and scabbard 1802-03

In 1799 a new system of government, led by three Consuls, was introduced in France.  Napoleon was elected First Consul. A sword of this pattern was provided to each of them, although this one is of a later date and must have been a replacement for the original. It was acquired by George IV with a certificate swearing that it had belonged to Napoleon himself.

Richard the Lionheart Answers Blondel de Nesle’s Singing

by Jean Antoine Laurent

Mont Blanc by Albert Bierstadt

Parzival by Fidus

Arundel Castle, West Sussex, England

Rome as seen from the Via Appia by Josef Langl

Frontispiece of "História da Colonização Portuguesa do Brasil"

Illustrated by Alfredo Roque Gameiro

Leonor Telles before the corpse of Count Andeiro by Alfredo Roque Gameiro

The Capture of Bagur, 1807 by George Chambers

On the night of the 6th August 1807 (at a time during the Napoleonic Wars when Spain was still France's ally) Captain George Mundy of HMS Hydra chased three armed Spanish merchantmen into the Catalonian port of Bagur (also called Begur, near Girona) and captured all three, while also taking the port's fortress.

Lucien Bonaparte contemplating his mistress, Alexandrine de Bleschamp Jouberthon by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière