Handcolored Gallery

SIEUR DE MAISONNEUVE (1612-1676). Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve

SIEUR DE MAISONNEUVE
(1612-1676). Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve. French colonial administrator. Sieur de Maisonneuve fighting the Iroquois outside the fort at Montreal, Canada, 1644. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys, 1942

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THOMAS A BECKET MURDER. The murder of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral

THOMAS A BECKET MURDER.
The murder of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, 29 December 1170, by knights from the court of King Henry II. Woodcut from William Caxton's edition of the Golden Legend, c1484-85

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CONSTANTINE I (d.337). Constantine the Great

CONSTANTINE I (d.337).
Constantine the Great. Roman emperor, 306-337. The conversion of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge in 312. Gravure after a painting, 1895, by Stephen James Ferris

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