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 1800s

The Early Game (1888; Charles Wilda)

traditional Igorot lifestyle (1896; Hans Meyer)

Abdoul Aziz Khan Madrasa, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

A Town View of Amsterdam (Oene Romkes de Jongh; 1800s)

an Ottomon view of Seven Planets (1150)

old Turkish house with blue door

Ancient Rigg Mill, Yorkshire, England (Francis Frith; ca 1890)

Blind Fiddler (John L Krimmel; 1812)

Council of Ephesus held in 431 AD (detail)

Our English Coasts or Strayed Sheep (1852; William Holman Hunt)

The Bookworm (Carl Spitzweg; 1850)

Emperor Iyasu I of Ethiopia & his court (depicted in the 19thc)

On a Journey to the Beautiful Countryside (1892 Adolph Menzel)

Ruins at Gran Pajatén (pre-Incan)

The Disturbance (1846; Adolph Menzel)

The Finding of_the Saviour in the Temple (1860)

The Santiponce Fair (1855; Manuel Rodríguez de Guzmán)

an enlightenmen-era salon reading (1755; as imagined in 1812)

Spanish armada defeated by the British (1588)

Viennese court ball (1800s)