A festive scene in 18th-century Madrid featuring a group of majos painted by Goya
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3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.
Views of the Alcázar in 17th century Madrid before the fatal accident on Christmas Eve 1734
Representation of local customs through 18th century hunting scenes
The image shows the layout of one of the twelve reverberatory furnaces for quicksilver metallurgy that were built in the Calle de Santa Ana of the Real de minas de Azogue de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in New Spain. These furnaces were made on the outside of brick and lime, to resist water, and on the inside of brick and clay, to preserve the fire. The picture explains how they worked.
Print from the memoirs of Antoine de Jussieu. Aludel furnace and equipment for the distillation of mercury used in the Almadén mines.
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.
Photograph at London Zoo from the Photographic Club members’ 1855 photograph album.
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
Photographs of workers at the construction of the British Museum station on the London Underground in 1898.
The image represents a view of Granada from the work Civitates Orbis Terrarum, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, produced around 1572. This work contains more than 500 perspectives, aerial images and maps of cities around the world.
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