The image shows the moments before the execution of the last king of France, Louis XVI. The king can be seen in the centre of the image with the guillotine behind him and a pleading gesture.
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The Catholic Monarchs receive the Christian captives after the capture of Malaga, coinciding with one of the final chapters of the peninsular conquest. Painting by Eduardo Cano de la Peña in 1867. Seville Museum of Fine Arts.
The image is a painting by Joseph Alonso del Ribero, dated 1805, which depicts Charles III handing over land in the Sierra Morena to settlers who had recently arrived from different territories.
Portrait of Charles V by Titian in 1548. Museo Nacional del Prado.
A zoomorphic gold pectoral cast in lost wax and hammered in gold belonging to a pre-Columbian society. Bogota Gold Museum.
Photograph at London Zoo from the Photographic Club members’ 1855 photograph album.
Anonymous Aztec standard-bearer figurine made ca. 1519 in volcanic stone, used during ceremonies. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The illustration shows a recent graduate of the University of London, dressed in academic dress, standing in front of a room of books and holding a human skull in her hand
Spanish soldiers advancing across the Americas, despite notorious opposition from the belligerent Aztec people and the military alliances won by Cortés. Archivo de la Nación, Mexico.
Photographs of workers at the construction of the British Museum station on the London Underground in 1898.
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