Spice route posters & prints

Navigators using an astrolabe in the Indian Ocean, c.1410-12 Boucicaut Master

Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India, c.1410-12 (and workshop) Boucicaut Master

The Great Khan's soldiers take the island of Sypangu, c.1410-12 Boucicaut Master

Kublai Khan gives a golden tablet ensuring safe passage to Niccolo and Maffeo Polo Anonymous

Dried red chillies in a mason jar Anonymous

Fol.32v The Spice Trade in the Moluccas Guillaume Le Testu

Ms 24224 Fol.73v Map of the Spice Islands from an account of the Voyage of Ferdinand Magellan French School

Silk Road. Caravan of camels resting. Engraving Anonymous

The Road to Cagnes, 1924 Chaim Soutine

The Road to Marly-le-Roi, or The Road to Versailles, 1875 Alfred Sisley

Road from Agra to Delhi approached by a female member of a gang of robbers India Charles Angot

New Route to Belgium: The Aquila Steamship Leaving Antwerp 1854 Anonymous

Dinizulu, Undabuko, and Chingwao, the Exiled Zulu Chiefs, Leaving the Gaol at Eshowe, Zululand, En Route Anonymous

Road; La Route, c. 1870 Camille Pissarro

New Overland Route to India: Mont Cenis Railway Susa in Piedmont Italy 1869 Anonymous

The New Overland Route to India: The Two Columns at Brindisi Marking the Terminus of the Appian Way 1869 Anonymous

Lord R. Churchill in South Africa: Swinging, Bounding, Jolting, Creaking, Straining, Over This Extraordinary Route the Coach Pursues the Uneven... Anonymous

The New Overland Route to India: The Railway Over the Alps Summit of Mont Cenis and Lake 1869 Anonymous