Guinea, 18th century map

The Netherlands, 18th century map

Virgin Islands, 18th century map

Northern Brazil, 18th century map

France, 18th century map

Greater Antilles. Jamaica, 18th century map

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, french chemist (1743-1794)

North Africa, 18th century map

Scandinavia, 18th century map

Compass rose on 18th century map

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, french philosopher and writer (1712-1778)

Malayan Archipelago. Moluccas and Sunda Islands, 18th century

Science & Medicine - line art (Scientific) Astronomy The Common Quadrant An instrument of navigation - 18th century

Fashion & Costume - (Color) France - late 18th century In this period revolution was transforming the map of the world in the Americas and in Europe. In England, engineer Henry Maudslay perfected the slide rest for lathes. This invention, arguably one o

Artifacts - Porcelain - Greece Rhodian Fayence Dish, 18th century Fayence is the French name for a style of tin-glazed porcelain remarkable for its fastness of color over hundreds of years. Italian manufacture was centered in the town of Faenza, near Bo

Flora & Fauna - line art - an 18th century engraving Animal Fur Seal This image is from Buffon`s "Natural History" first published in 1766 by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon. The compte, a scientist from Montbard, France, was made the keeper

Paintings & Engravings - (Color) - France "Fidelity" by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) French genre and portrait painter who initiated a mid-18th-century vogue for sentimental and moralizing anecdotes in paintings. Greuze studied first at Lyon and

Patterns & Motifs - (Color) (d9) La Peinture DZcorative - decorative painting c. 1785 Panneaux (panels) - Arabesques Design such as these decorated the walls of palaces and mansions throughout France during the last stages of the American Revolution and

Artifacts - Porcelain - France A S_vres Vase c. 1760 S_vres was a suburb of Paris where this elegant and rare porcelain was manufactured in a factory established by Louis XV and his mistress Madame Pompadour Its distinctive color was named in honor of th

Patterns & Motifs - (Color) (d9) La Peinture DZcorative - decorative painting c. 1785 Panneaux (panels) - Arabesques Design such as these decorated the walls of palaces and mansions throughout France during the last stages of the American Revolution and

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - France "The Marquise de Pompadour" by Fran_ois Boucher (1703-1770) Boucher was trained by his father, a designer of lace, and matured into one of the most acclaimed practitioners of the French Rococo period. He wa

Vintage American History print of Benjamin Franklin's reception by the French court.

Napoleon Bonaparte in his coronation costume, sitting on his imperial throne.

Digitally restored vector painting of Napoleon Bonaparte on his horse.

French Guyana, 18th century map