Step Collection (page 29)

The City and Roads of Toulon, France, 1756. Artist: Claude-Joseph Vernet
The City and Roads of Toulon, France, 1756. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Arrival at Calais, 1816. From French Characteristic Costume. (London, 1816)

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, 1880. Jacquard (1752-1834), inventor of the punched card loom being attacked by the silk weavers of Lyon who were afraid his invention would put them out of

View from the Top of the Rock Fortress, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
View from the Top of the Rock Fortress, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, 20th century. Sigiriya is an ancient rock fortress of historic and archaeological significance

Sigiriya Gardens below Rock Fortress, Sri Lanka. 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Sigiriya Gardens below Rock Fortress, Sri Lanka. 20th century. Sigiriya is an ancient rock fortress of historic and archaeological significance

Norman Arch leading to cloisters, Dryburgh Abbey, Berwick-shire, Scotland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Norman Arch leading to cloisters, Dryburgh Abbey, Berwick-shire, Scotland, 20th century. Founded on 10 November 1150, it was burned by English troops in 1322

Fishermen in Husavik, Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Fishermen in Husavik, Iceland, 20th century

Stocks Outsde Martock (All Saints) Church, Somerset, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Stocks Outsde Martock (All Saints) Church, Somerset, 20th century. Dating from 13th century and designated as a Grade I listed building

Rievaulx Abbey, 12th century
Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, a former Cistercian monastery dissolved in 1538 by Henry the Eigth. Founded by French monks from Clairvaux abbey, it was one of the richest abbeys in England, 12th century

Maison Carree, the only intact Roman temple, 1st century BC
Maison Carree, the only intact Roman temple, found in Nimes, France. Its preservation is owed to its rededication as a Christian church in the fourth century, 1st century BC

Alley and stairs in Acre

Ghorfas at Ksar Hadada, formerly Berber storehouses but now a hotel

The steps leading to the cistern in Mycenae

Kittens in Rhodes old town

Statues of the Dioscuri at the top of Michelangelos steps, 16th century. Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Statues of the Dioscuri at the top of Michelangelos steps on the Capitoline hill in Rome, 16th century

Ruins of the Roman city of Thugga, 3rd century
Ruins of the Roman city of Thugga, wth a view of the buildings of the third century AD, including the Licinian Baths, 3rd century

Roman wall-painting of Priests of Isis worshipping, 1st century
Roman wall-painting of Priests of Isis worshipping, from Herculaneum. Now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, 1st century

Petrodovorets Palace near St Petersburg, 19th century

Lion guardian on the steps of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok

Maecenas presenting the Arts to Augustus, 1743. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Maecenas presenting the Arts to Augustus, 1743. Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Greek temple of Apollo, 3rd century
Greek temple of Apollo, looking east to the cella, 3rd century

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia with nurses outside a hospital, Russia, 1916. Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) married the future Tsar Alexander III in 1866

Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna with Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, c1907-c1910. Artist: K von Hahn
Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna with Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, c1907-c1910. Alexandra (1872-1918) and Alexei (1904-1918) in the garden of the imperial summer residence of Ropsha

People coming out of church on a Sunday in Eger. Artist: CM Dixon
People coming out of church on a Sunday in Eger, Hungary

Step Pyramid of King Djoser behind the Niles flood plain, Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer) behind the Niles flood plain, Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC

Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer) in the distance, Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer) in the distance, Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC

View south from the Step Pyramid to the Dashur necropolis, Saqqara, Egypt. The far pyramid is the Bent Pyramid of King Sneferu

Small Pyramid near Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Small Pyramid near Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC

Small tomb near Step Pyramid, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Small tomb near Step Pyramid, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC. Thie tomb is near the Step Pyramid and to the south of the old Pyramids, meanwhile the Giza Pyramids are visible in the distance on the left

Looking up from the foot of Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Looking up from the foot of the Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. The pyramid was encased in white stone the remains of which can be seen lower left

Distant view of the Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC

View from the left of Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC

Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer) behind ruins of temple, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer) behind ruins of temple, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 BC. The pyramid rises above the palms of the Nile Valley

Step Pyramid (behind palms) of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. The pyramid rises above the palms of the Nile Valley. It is believed to have been deigned by the architect Imhotep

Step Pyramid (behind palms) of King Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. Artist: Imhotep
Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2600 BC. The pyramid rises above the palms of the Nile Valley. It is believed to have been deigned by the architect Imhotep

Jesus raising Lazarus from his tomb, 1865-1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
Jesus raising Lazarus from his tomb, 1865-1866. From the Bible (John 2:43)

Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2613 BC. Djoser (c2686-c2613 BC) was the second king of the 3rd dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

Reading from the Tablets of the Law in the Synagogue, 1831. Artist: Solomon Alexander Hart
Reading from the Tablets of the Law in the Synagogue, 1831. The Rabbi (at the top of the steps) holds the Torah cover, while one of the elders of the congregation stands below him holding

Pyramid and Temple-of-the-Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico, 7th century
Temple of Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico. This pyramid topped with a temple is an example of classical Mayan architecture

Cell and library at the prison at Fresnes, 1907. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called Apaches at this time, and some thought the French prisons should be less comfortable

Hansel and Gretel and the Witch on the doorstep of her cottage. Artist: Arthur Rackham
Hansel and Gretel and the Witch on the doorstep of her cottage. The tiles made of gingerbread can be seen. Arthur Rackham illustration from the Brothers Grimm fairy story. (Copyright must be cleared)

Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor Napoleon I, 2nd December, 1804, 19th century

The Two Consuls Cambaceres and Le Brun nominate Napoleon Emperor, 19th century

Spartans asking the Oracle at Delphi whether to make war against Athens, c431 BC (1910). The Priestess of the temple of Apollo at Delphi was the most famous Ancient Greek oracle

Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), Irish-born British soldier and statesman. Kitchener was commander of British forces during the Boer War (1899-1902)

The murder of Thomas a Becket, 1170 (1825). Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162, Becket clashed almost incessantly with King Henry II over the question of the independence of the Church from

Universal Suffrage, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
Universal Suffrage, 1893. Universal suffrage (also general suffrage or common suffrage) consists of the extension of the right to vote to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief

Assassination of Julius Caesar, c1749-1821. Artist: Laurent Pecheux
Assassination of Julius Caesar, c1749-1821

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