Steps Collection (#29)

The Metropolitan genuflects at the coronation ceremony of Tsar Alexander II, Moscow, 1856. Artist: Georg Wilhelm Timm
The Metropolitan genuflects at the coronation ceremony of Tsar Alexander II, Moscow, 1856. The coronation of Emperor Alexander II (1818-1881) and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880)

Banganga Tank and Walkeshwar Temple at Bombay, 1890s. Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks
Banganga Tank and Walkeshwar Temple at Bombay, 1890s. The tank and the temple, which is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, were built in the 1120s. From a private collection

Royal Elephant at the Gateway to the Jami Masjid, Mathura, 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks
Royal Elephant at the Gateway to the Jami Masjid, Mathura, 19th or early 20th century. From a private collection

Duty, 1883. Artist: Edmund Blair Leighton
Duty, 1883. From a private collection

Composition, 1885. Artist: Andrei Osipovich Karelin
Composition, 1885. Found in the collection of the State M Gorky Memorial Museum, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Au Jardin des Gemmes, 1924. Artist: Leon Carre
Au Jardin des Gemmes, 1924. Leonard Rosenthal. Illustration of Leon Carre. Private collection

The German sailors burn Tsung-Li-Yamen, 1900. Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion from November 1899 to September 7, 1901, against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics

Dance of Almee, c1873-1937. Artist: Paul Louis Bouchard
Dance of Almee, c1873-1937

The Hundred Steps, Windsor Castle, c1888. Artist: Herbert Arthur
The Hundred Steps, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, c1888. Illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria Vol II, by Robert Wilson, (c1888)

Peace Conference at the Hague (1899), 1900

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), (5 July 1898), 1900

The gate of Shanghai, China, Sino-Japanese War, 1895. Artist: Henri Meyer
The gate of Shanghai, China, Sino-Japanese War, 1895. The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) was a war fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan over the control of Korea

Return of Christopher Columbus, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 20th August 1892

Garrotting of anarchists in Xeres, Spain, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Garrotting of anarchists in Xeres, Spain, 1892. Manuel Fernandez Reina, Jose Fernandez Lamela, Manuel Silva Leal & Antonio Zarzuela Granja, considered anarchists were condemned to death

Scene two, act two, from the opera Le Mage, by Jules Massenet, 1891. Le Mage is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jean Richepin

Act one of Thermidor, by Victorien Sardou, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
Act one of Thermidor, by Victorien Sardou, 1891. Lobster Thermidor was created in 1894 by Marie s, a Paris restaurant near the theatre Comedie Francaise

George Vs resting place, St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle, 28 January 1936. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

Queen Elizabeth with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, Glamis Castle, Scotland, 1937. A photograph from the Illustrated London News: Coronation Record Number, (London, 1937)

Uniforms of the 2nd infantry of the French royal guard, 1823. Artist: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Uniforms of the soldiers of the 2nd infantry regiment of the French royal guard, 1823

French Foreign Legionnaires, Algeria, c1910

Frontispiece of Arca Noe, 1675. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
Frontispiece of Arca Noe, 1675. A print from Arca Noe, Amsterdam, 1675. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Pergamon Altar, 2nd century BC
Pergamon Altar, 2nd Century, BC. Opulent structure originally built in the 2nd century BC in the Ancient Greek city of Pergamon

The Birth, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
The Birth, 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenere, Paris, 1615. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Madonna and Child with Saints, c1470-1523. Artist: Perugino
Madonna and Child with Saints, c1470-1523

Venus et l Amour c1535-1560. Artist: Lambert Sustris
Venus et l Amour c1535-1560

Volumnie and Veturie in front of Coriolan, c1638-1639. Artist: Eustache Le Sueur
Volumnie and Veturie in front of Coriolan, c1638-1639. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France

Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus, 1649. Artist: Eustache Le Sueur
Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus, 1649. During Saint Pauls mission to Ephesus, he succeeded in converting many of the citys inhabitants to Christianity, located in the collection at, Louvre, Paris

Merchants of Carpet to the Khan El-Country Cottage, 1880. Published in L Egypt by George Moritz Ebers, 1880

Courtyard in the House of Sheikh Sadat, Cairo, 1873. Artist: Frank Dillon
Courtyard in the House of Sheikh Sadat, Cairo, 1873. Found in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Fantasy Castle in Moonlight II, 1820-1876. Artist: George Sand
Fantasy Castle in Moonlight II, 1820-1876. George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876)

Fantasy Castle in Moonlight I, 1820-1876. Artist: George Sand
Fantasy Castle in Moonlight I, 1820-1876. George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876)

Woman scavenging for food, Bayreuth, Germany, April 1945. An illustration of the hardships of life for civilians in Germany as World War II neared its conclusion

Giving alms, 1393. Scenes including beggars asking for alms. Illustrated page from Le Pelerinage de vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguilleville, in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Frozen River, 1787-1870. Artist: Andreas Schelfhout
Frozen River, 1787-1870

The Portico of a Country Mansion, 1773. Artist: Robert Hubert
The Portico of a Country Mansion, 1773. Found in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Swing, c1777. Artist: Robert Hubert
The Swing, c1777. Found in the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Beggar and the Parrot, c1750-1808. Artist: Robert Hubert
The Beggar and the Parrot, c1750-1808. Robert Hubert was a French Rococo Era Painter

The Distribution of the Eagle Standards, 5th December 1804, 1808. Artist: Jacques Louis David
The Distribution of the Eagle Standards, 5th December 1804, 1808. Jacques Luis David is widely considered to be most influential painter of the Neoclassical movement in France

The Rhino, c1850-1890. Artist: Stanislas Lepine
The Rhino, c1850-1890. French Impressionist Painter, Private Collection

David with the head of Goliath, 1894. Artist: Georges-Auguste-Elie Lavergne
David with the head of Goliath, 1894. Georges Auguste Elie Lavergne was a well known French portrait painter of the turn of the 20th century

The Legend of St. Ursula: Martyrdom and Funeral of St. Ursula, 1493. Artist: Vittore Carpaccio
The Legend of St. Ursula: Martyrdom and Funeral of St. Ursula, 1493. The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

World War 2: De Gaulle with exiled French government in Algeria, 1943. Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French General (centre), with members of the French government in exile in Algeria, November 1943

The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. Artist: Landelot-Theodore Turpin de Crisse
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France

Playmates, 1868. Artist: George Cochran Lambdin
Playmates, 1868

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

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