Prisma Collection

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel. Colored engraving

World War I (1914-1918). German poster inviting people to join the war loan. It was done by Maximilian Lenz (1860-1948)

Printing press used by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), U. S. statesman and scientist. Colored engraving

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794). French chemist.. Established the composition of the water and the basis of bioenergetics

John Calvin (15091564). French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation
John Calvin (1509-1564). French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Colored engraving

Historic, Sculpture
Antinous (110-130). Member of the Roman Emperor Hadrians entourage, to whom he was beloved. Bust. Marble. Dated 130-138. Found in Patras. National Archaeological Museum. Athens, Greece

Historic
MAXWELL, James Clerk (Edinburgh, 1831-Cambridege, 1879). Scottish physicist. Noted for his work on magnetism and electricity

Historic
Martin Luther, (Eisleben, 1483, Eisleben, 1546). German reformer. Doctor of Theology and Augustinian priest. In 1517, outlined the main thesis of Lutheranism in Wittenberg

Independence of Argentina. Belgrano, Manuel (1770-1820)
Independence of Argentina. Manuel Belgrano (1770-1820). Argentine military. The first flag of Argentina presented to the revolutionary army by General Belgrano on February 27, 1812. Colored engraving

Paracelsus (Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541). Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. Engraving

Bach, Johann Sebastian (Eisenach, 1685-Leipzig, 1750). German composer. Served as Kapellmeister from 1717 to 1723 the Duke of Kothen, the period when he composed his major instrumental works

WORLD WAR I (1914-1918). Poster USA BONDS Third Liberty Loan Campaign"
World War I (1914-1918). Poster USA Bonds Third Liberty Loan Campaign. Boy Scouts of America (1917), by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951). Edited by the government of the United States

GALICIA. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. Province of A Coruna
Galicia. Santiago de Compostela. Province of Coruna. Partial view of the city with the Cathedral in the background. The Spanish and American Illustration. Engraving by Otero (1870)

Construction of the Panama Canal. Works in the estuary of the Rio Grande. Colored engraving, 1886

BISMARCK, Otto-Leopold, Prince of (1815-1898). German statesman. Bismarck in Friedrichruhe
Otto-Leopold Bismarck, Prince of Bismarck (1815-1898). German statesman. Bismarck in Friedrichruhe. Colored engraving

Otto I (1848-1916). King of Bavaria (1886-1913). Successor of Louis II (1886). 19th-century colored engraving

Sand, George, pseudonym of Aurore Dupin (Paris, 1804-Nohant, 1876). French novelist
George Sand, pseudonym of Aurore Dupin (Paris, 1804-Nohant, 1876). French novelist. Colored engraving

Cavour, Camillo Benso, Count of (Turin, 1810-1861) Italian statesman
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (Turin, 1810-1861) Italian statesman. Founder of Il Risorgimento (1847). Engraving by Rim. Colored

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809-1865)
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865). French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. Colored engraving

Urkiola Natural Park. Cross. Biscay province. Basque Country. Spain
Urkiola Natural Park. Cross. Biscay province, Basque country, Spain

WORLD WAR (1914-1918). Soldiers and horses of the German army, both with gas masks to protect against poison gas launched by the enemy

Emporium. 570 BC. Asclepius, god of medicin. Neapolis. Girona province. Catalonia. Spain

The Mouth of Trurh. Marble. 1st century A. D. Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin. Rome
The Mouth of Trurh. Marble. 1st century A.D. Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin. Rome. Italy

Garcia Aguado, Dionisio (1784-1849). Spanish guitarist and composer. Engraving

Charles XIV John of Sweden (1764-1844). French soldier named Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, afterwards King of Sweden and Norway (1818-1844). Founder of the current ruling dynasty in Sweden

Abdulmecit I (1823-1861). Ottoman Sultan (1839-1861)

Gondolas. Venice, Italy

Spanish literature. The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Silk Road. Caravan of camels resting. Antioch. Nineteenth-century colored engraving
Silk Road. Caravan of camels resting. Antioch. 19th-century colored engraving

Rontgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923)
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923). German physicist. Discovered Rontgen rays or X-ray (1895). In 1901 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Rontgen exploring a child with X-ray device by 1900

Polignac, Jules Auguste Armand Marie
Jules Auguste Armand Marie, Prince of Polignac (Versailles, 1780-Paris, 1847). French politician. In July 1830, Polignac enacted ordinances to eliminate the liberal opposition

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Physicist, Italian mathematician and astronomer. Galileo demonstrating his astronomical theories. Engraving by Rico in the Spanish and American Illustration (1884)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Geneva, 1712 - Ermenonville, 1778). Philosopher, writer, and composer of the XVIII century Enlightenment

WORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km
World War I (1914-1918). Big Bertha M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long

Baroque Art. Angel. Statue. Work by Giamlorenzo Bernini, 1669. Sculptures that decorated the St. Angelo Bridge. Rome, Italy

Art Greek. Hellenistic. Statue of Lacoon and his sons (Antiphates and Thymbraeus). The sculpture is attributed by three sculptors from the island of Rhodes. Agesander, Athenedores and Polydorus

Neptune Fountain with the Neptune statue in the middle. Sculpted by Bartolome Ammannati in 1576. Piazza della Signoria. Florence. Italy

Santiago Ramon and Cajal (1852-1934) Spanish histologist, physician and pathologist
Santiago Ramon and Cajal (1852-1934).. Spanish histologist, physician and pathologist. He made important discoveries such as laws governing the morphology and connections of nerve cells in the brain

Fire in the city of Providence in 1886. The Exchange building on the right. United States

Industrial Revolution. Nineteenth century. English miner and transport of coal mined. Engraving after a watercolor (1814) by George Walker. Colored

Industrial Revolution. London. Interior of an English factory. Late 18th century. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Industrial Revolution. England. Mining. Nineteenth-century engraving

French Revolution. The Storming of the Bastille in Paris occurred on 14 July, 1789

Bourgeoisie. Gentleman with a lady in the living room. Colored engraving. 1897

Brokers working. Nineteen-century colored engraving

Valencia gardener. Engraving by Diguez, 1867. Colored
Valencia gardener. Engraving by Dieguez, 1867. Colored

United States. American War of Independence (1775-1783). Declaration of Independence
USA. American War of Independence (1775-1783). Declaration of Independence: General Washingtons army in New York on July 9, 1776. Engraving by Howard Pyle, 1892. Colored

United States. Kansas. Mennonite religious service outside the hut. Colored engraving of the newspaper Frank Leslies (1875)

Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884

Meeting house of the Quakers. Lincoln. United States
Meeting house of the Quakers. Lincoln, USA. 19th-century colored engraving

World War I (1914-1918). Battle between Allied and German tanks in May 1918. Colored Drawing in La Domenica del Corriere (1918)

World War I (1914-1918). The United States entered the conflict by declaring war on the Central Powers on 2 April 1917. The Italian monarch Victor Emmanuel III reviewing an American regiment

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations
Tacuinum Sanitatis, Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on medical observations detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Picking watercress. Miniature

Hassan I (1836-1894). Sultan of Morocco between 1873 and 1894, member of the Alaouite dynasty. The Sultan receives a dispatch. 19 the century engraving R. Caton Woodville. Colored

Descartes, Rene (La Haye, Touraine, France, 1596-Stockholm, 1650). French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer. Engraving

BOLIVAR, Simon (Caracas, 1793-Santa Marta, 1830)
Simon Bolivar (Caracas, 1793-Santa Marta, 1830). Military and Venezuelan statesman called The Liberator. Colored engraving

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I. Vote to confer the life Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte. Colored engraving

Oersted, Hans Christian (Copenhagen Rudkobing, 1777-1851). Danish physicist and chemist
Hans Christian Oersted (Copenhagen Rudkobing, 1777-1851). Danish physicist and chemist. Oersted discovers electromagnetism. Colored engraving

Abd al-Qadir B Muhyi al-Din al-Hasani (Abdelkader) (1808 - 1883). Algerian Leader
Abd al-Qadir B Muhyi al-Din al-Hasani (Abdelkader) (1808-1883). Algerian Leader. Colored engraving

The Judas kiss (1866). Gospel of John. Drawing by Gustave Dor and engraving by Pannemaker
The Judas kiss (1866). Gospel of John. Drawing by Gustave Dore and engraving by Pannemaker

The Boxer Rebellion (1900). Boxer prisoners in a village in China guarded by German sailors. Engraving by Etching Gerlach. Colored

China. Men playing draughts in a tavern. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Printing press. Seventeenth century. Colored engraving of Gottfried Historical Chronicle. Frankfurt, 1619

Iphigenia. Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Electra and Orestes, is also known by the name of Iphianassa. Iphigenia in Tauris. Engraving by A. Closs. Colored

Spanish Civil War(1936-1939). Barcelona. Damage caused by the bombing of 17 and 18 February 1938 in the Gran Via, near the Coliseum building. Catalonia. Archives of the Abbey of Montserrat

WORLD WAR II (1939-1945). Battle of Stalingrad. Fought between the German and Soviet army (August 1942 - February 1943). Artillery into the city of Stalingrad. USSR

GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1821-1830) The naval Battle of Navarino (October 20, 1827) in Navarino Bay (now Pylos), in the Peloponnese

WORLD WAR II (1939-1945). Evacuation of wounded by German health services

Manufacture of the German army helmets during World War II (1939-1945)

Byzantine Art. Greece. icon with Saint Michael Archangel by workshop Constantinople. Dated at 14th century. Byzantine Museum. Athens

ALARCON. Castle. Arab origin and rebuilt under Christian rule by King Alfonso VIII. He wrote much of his work the Infante Don Juan Manuel. It is now a parador. Detail. Province of Cuenca

Relief depicting Egyptian divinity giving the Ankh to a pharaoh. Temple of Luxor. Egypt

Indiana Institution for the Blind, founded in 1847. Indianapolis, 1854. United States

Washington, 1843. Downtown. Shoe shop and grocery to the left. United States. Engraving

Masonic temple opened in 1867, at the intersection of Tremont Street and Boyleston Street. Outside view. Boston. 1895. Massachusetts. United States

Oscar II (Stockholm 1829-Stockholm, 1907). King of Sweden (1872-1907) and Norway (1872-1905)

French Revolution (1789-1799). Foulon execution on 22 july 1789
French Revolution (1789-1799).Foulon execution on 22 July 1789. Colored engraving of Paris c travers les Ages

Spanish emigrants on board a ship heading toward Argentina. Brabant engraving for The Enlightenment, 1887. Colored

Spain. Galicia. Santiago de Compostela. Partial view of the city with the Cathedral in the background. Colored engraving of The Spanish and American Illustration by Otero (1870)

Seven-branched candelabrum or menorah. 16th century engraving

South American Indians. 16th-18th century. Yanomamo Indians. Inhabitants of the basins of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. Cultivation of cassava and fruit trees. Italian Engraving 1780. Colored

Rabelais, Franois (La Devinire, c. 1494-Paris, 1553)
Rabelais, Francois (La Deviniere, c. 1494-Paris, 1553). French writer. Gargantua. Engraving in The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel (1534)

Rabelais, Franois (c. 1494-1553)
Rabelais, Francois (c. 1494-1553). French writer. The life of the Gargantua and of Pantagruel. The pilgrims are eaten in salads. Illustration by Gustave Dore, 1873. Colored

Photographer preparing a portrait of a mummy. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

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