Nasir ud din Muhammad Humayun (Persian نصیر الدین محمد همایون, 1508-1556) was the second ruler of the Mughal Empire of India and ruled until 1540 and 1530 of from 1555 until 1556.
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Dame de la cour du roi François Ier. XVIe siècle.
Lady of the Court of King Francis. Renaissance 16th century.
Garde du corps de la Prévôté. Officier des gardes 1574 à 1589.
Bodyguard of the Provost. Officer of the guards 1574 to 1589.
Embroidery from the Caucasus, Greece, Indian Melicete tribe.
FROM among the few but remarkable specimens of art-work man ship contributed to the Exhibition by the Caucasian Agricultural Society of Tiflis, we have selected a saddle-cloth from Kabardah, a district to the east of Mount Elbruz, the highest summit of the great Caucasian mountain-range. Circassian embroidered Saddle-Cloth. Embroidered dress, Greece. Hand-work of the North-American Indian Melicete tribe. International exhibition, 1862.
Embroidered Table center by Ann Macbeth. Glasgow School of Art, c. 1911.
Embroideries by Ann Macbeth. Glasgow School of Art.
Prussian army uniforms c. 1870. Franco-Prussian war.
The Royal Prussian Army. Sub officer-bearer of the 2nd Guard Regiment. Officer 4th Regiment of the Queen Augusta.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. Richard Wagner.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. ELIZABETH is kneeling at the shrine in prayer for Tannhäuser, when she hears the chorus of the band of returning pilgrims, of whom he was one.
Henry II as Captain Chevau-Légers. 16th century.
Portrait of Henry II as Captain Chevau-Légers. Portrait de Henri II, En Capitaine de Chevau-Legers. D’apres les antiquités de Wilhelm.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este. A drama by J. W. von Goethe.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este is a drama in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Italian poet Torquato Tasso is the focus of the action.
A Japanese sailing ship off the coast of Shimoda.
Two journeys to Japan. 1856-7, by Kinahan Cornwallis.