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William Holman Hunt: The Lady of Shalott (1888-1905)

Anonymous: Trachtenbuch (1520-1560)

William Etty: The Three Graces (1835)

Toshusai Sharaku: The actor Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei (1794)

Jörg Kölderer: Book of Armaments of Emperor Maximilian I (1502)

Édouard Manet: Olympia (1863)

Master of Soriguerola: Two Altar side panels (13th century)

Anonymous: The Fabulous Creature Buraq (1660-1680)

Anonymous: The Passion of Roermond (1435)

Anonymous: Thor fishing for the Jörmungandr (1765-1766)

Anonymous: The siege of Utrecht (1515)

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach: The Isle of the Dead (1905)

Anonymous: The Burney Relief (19th-18th century BC)

Anonymous: Le Grand Armorial équestre de la Toison d'or (1430-1461)

Reinier van Persijn: Saint Cecilia Distributing Alms to the Poor (1646)

Gillis Mostaert (I): Allegory of Worldly and Spiritual Abuses (1570 - 1580)

Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille: Cavalry Charge (1902)

Cornelis de Jonker: The Kitchen of the Old Women's home (1785)

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: A Roman Emperor: 41 AD (1871)

Anonymous: Bestiary (Harley 4751) f.8r.; drawing of an elephant (13th century)

Gentile Bellini: Seated Scribe (1479-81)

Pedro Américo: The Battle of Avaí (1872-79)

William Etty: Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret (1833)

Dirck van Baburen: Granida receives a drink of water from Daifilo (1623)

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend: diptych with Abner's Messenger before David and The Queen of Sheba (1480)

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt: Portrait of prince Philip William of Orange (1608)

Gerard de Lairesse: Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (1668)

Jacob Willemsz Delff II: Portrait of Willem Reyersz. de Langue and Daniël Fransz. van der Brugge (1648)

Paulus Constantijn la Fargue: The winding hole at Leidschendam (1756)

Lucas Gassel: Panoramic river landscape with Judah and Tamar (16th century)

Raphael: The Vision of a Knight (1504-1505)

Hans Rottenhammer: Diana and Actaeon (1596-1606)

Antonio Arias Fernández: Portrait of Charles V and Philip II (1639-40)

anonymous: The Holkham Bible Picture Book, f.40 - a battle scene (1327-1335)

Antonie Wierix (II): The seven sacraments (16th century)

Follower of Albrecht Dürer: The Holy Trinity in a Rosary (1515)

Heinrich Bünting: Clover Leaf Map (1581)

Michael Wolgemut: The Nuremberg chronicles; The map of the world (1493)

Katsushika Hokusai: Urashima Tarô Visits the Dragon Palace (1780s)

Follower of Jean-Marc Nattier: Portrait of the Duchesse de Chateauroux as Thalia (18th century)

Sultan Muhammad & Shah Mahmud Nishapuri: Khamsah of Nizami; the Israʾ and Miʿraj of Mohammed (1539–1543)

anonymous: Codex Gigas, f. 289–290 (13th century)

James Wilson Carmichael: The HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic (1847)

Anonymous: The miracle of Amersfoort (1525)

Bernardo Strozzi: The Old Coquette (1637)

Olaus Magnus: Carta marina (1539)

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Lot and his daughters (1528)

Anonymous: The Ayala Altarpiece (1396)

Arthur Hacker: The Temptation of Sir Percival (1894)

Antonio Mancini: Lost in Thought (1895-1898)