The 18th Century Search for the Blue Nile
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James Cook Witnessing Human Sacrifice In Tahiti
Map of Dusky Bay by James Cook
Society of Dilettanti
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Las castas Mexicanas by Ignacio Barreda, 1777
This painting depicts the highly complex racial categories in 18th century Mexican society.
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Sam Gibson
Portrait of Count de Caylus
Image of an Antiquary
Engraving of a Warrior,
An example of dal Pozzo's Paper Museum
The Carrara Herbal
This page depicts a page from a typical medieval herbal. Normally, herbals would include detailed illustrations and known properties of plants. Herbals were very common in the Middle Ages and proved very crucial in the formation of natural history…
An Antiquary's Shop in Naples
Captain John Smith
An engraved portrait of Captain John Smith
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