Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
'The Antiquary' by Scott, 19th-century illustration
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Cervantes, Spanish author
Count Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet
Lord Byron, English poet
Alexander Pope, English poet
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
The old man at death's gate, illustration
John Milton, English poet
Alfred Tennyson, poet, illustration
Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright
Emile Zola, French novelist
John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician
George Sand, French novelist
高村光太郎
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
Scene from Voltaire's play 'Irene' (1778)
Voltaire, French author
David Hume, Scottish philosopher
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Sebastian Brant, German satirist
Johann von Schiller, German poet, illustration
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
David Brewster, Scottish physicist
Scene from Voltaire's 'The History of Jenni' (1774)
Jules Verne, French novelist
Francois Fenelon, French theologian
Victor Hugo, French Author, illustration
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Charles Fox, British politician
George III, British monarch
Constantin Chasseoeuf, French philosopher
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author
Sappho, Ancient Greek poet
'Lucrezia Borgia' by Hugo, 19th-century illustration
The chimney sweep
Archilochus of Paros, Ancient Greek poet
Francois de Chateaubriand, French writer
Richard Wagner, 19th Century illustration
John Pringle, Scottish physician
Dante's Inferno, 19th Century illustration
Virgil, Roman poet
Karl Marx, German political theorist
18th Century anatomy lesson, illustration
Emile Blanche, French psychiatrist
George Washington, first US president
Mozart, Austrian composer
Klemens von Metternich, Austrian diplomat
Louis Saint-Just, French politician
William Pitt, British politician
Chinese calligrapher, illustration
Claude de Lisle, French revolutionary officer
Sneyd Davies, English poet
Maximilien Robespierre, French politician
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and politician
Persius, Roman poet
Jules Verne, French author, 20th C illustration
Mark Twain, US author, 19th century illustration
Charles Dickens, English author
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
'Marie Tudor' by Hugo, 19th-century illustration
James Boswell, Scottish author
Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch theologian
A Holy Man, 19th century illustration
The Mermaid, 19th century illustration
The Suicide, 19th century illustration
Harriet Martineau, British author and sociologist
William Penn, English coloniser
Ernest Daudet
Cybele, mother goddess
Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus, 19th century
17th Century British dress
George Canning, British politician
19th Century German post office
Voltaire, French author and poet
Louis Figuier, French science writer
Gaspard Monge, French mathematician
Nicolas Appert, French chef and inventor
Denis Papin, French physicist
Technical support, satirical illustration
Homer, Ancient Greek poet
Marguerite Gardiner, Irish writer
Franz Gall, German physiologist
Jean Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor
Captain James Cook, British explorer
Quack, satirical artwork
Marco Polo, Italian traveller, artwork
Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
Claude Chappe, French engineer
William Wilberforce, British politician
Jacob's ladder, 19th Century illustration
'Jerusalem Delivered', 19th-century illustration
Perceptions of beauty, 19th century
Edmund Burke, Irish politician
Aphra Behn
Daniel Defoe in a pillory, artwork
Giuseppe Montanelli, Italian statesman and author
Pierre Macquer, French chemist
Thomas Sonnet de Courval, French poet
'Paradise Lost' by Milton, 19th-century illustration
Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist, illustration
Storming of the Bastille, 19th-century illustration
Lauder Brunton, Scottish physician
William Pryce, British antiquary
Michael Leib, American physician
Mungo Park, Scottish surgeon and explorer
George Romney, British painter
Scene from 'Madame Favart' operetta (1878)
King James I of England
John Ogilby, Scottish translator, 17th century illustration
Moliere, French playwright
After the Flood, 19th century illustration
Francois Rabelais, French satirist
Roman library, Late Roman Empire
Guillaume Carcel, french inventor
Elie de Beaumont, French geologist
John Ross in the Arctic, 19th Century illustration
Scene from Voltaire's Candide, 19th century illustration
15th Century British dress
Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas, 1739
Pietro Aretino, Italian writer
Spanish Inquisition, 19th C illustration
King John, English monarch
19th Century freemasons, illustration
Marcellin Bertholet, French chemist
Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist
School teacher, 19th century illustration
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Map of the Garden of Eden
Claude Berthollet, French chemist
Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman
Marquis de Condorcet, French politician
Demange and Dreyfus in court
Stone age man, 19th Century illustration
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionary
Henry Purcell, English composer
Giovanni da Palestrina, Italian composer
19th Century German railway station
Old Bailey, London, 19th C illustration
Gustave Eiffel, French engineer
Lysias, Ancient Greek orator
The Will Explained By Aesop, allegorical illustration
David Wilkie, painter, illustration
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist
John Calvin, French theologian
Herbert Spencer, British philosopher
18th Century electricity experiment
18th century hairdressing, 19th century caricature
Newton's house, 35 St Martin's Street
Burlington House, 1868
Uranographia constellations, 1801
Hauksbee electrostatic generator, 1709
Nicolas de Condorcet, French politician
Count Rumford, US-British physicist
Seneca the Elder, Roman orator
William Hunter on the anatomy of human pregnancy, 1774
William Hunter on abortions, 1774
Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar
Shakespeare and friends drinking, 19th century illustration
Papyrus scrolls, Ancient Rome
Hippolyte Taine, French historian
Judith beheading Holofernes, illustration
Pan and Apollo, 19th Century illustration