Watercolour on parchment posters & prints

Scarlet Ibis with an Egg, um 1700 Anonymous

Boats readied for departure at Martigny on the river Dranse in Switzerland Anonymous

Portrait of Aesop Mariano di Jacopo del Buono

King William Rufus Matthew Paris

The Death of Dido, ca 400 Master of the Vatican Vergil

Garden (From Regia Carmina by Convenevole da Prato) Pacino di Buonaguida

Tulip, two branches of myrtle and two shells, um 1700 Anonymous

A banquet given by the Qianlong Emperor at the Chengde Mountain Resort in 1754, 1755 Anonymous

Alphabet Anonymous

William Shakespeare, 1794-1813 William Henry Ireland

William I Matthew Paris

The naval Battle, ca 1340 Anonymous

Portrait of Queen Catherine of Aragon, c. 1525 Lucas Horenbout

Pilate washes his hands (from Lettres bâtardes), ca 1490-1510 Jean Poyet

The fleet of Vasco da Gama in 1502 Anonymous

Bertrand du Guesclin (From Livro do Ameiro-Mor), 1509 Anonymous

Henry I of England Matthew Paris

Robert of Anjou (From Regia Carmina by Convenevole da Prato) Pacino di Buonaguida

The Tower of London, the Custom House and Charles d?Orléans imprisonment in the Tower. From: Pseudo- Anonymous

Vratislaus II of Bohemia Anonymous

Matilda of Tuscany Donizone di Canossa

Feasting in Oxford (A cycle of Alexander romances), ca 1400 Anonymous

Peasants ploughing (Miniature from the Cotton MS Tiberius), 11th century Anonymous

The Creation Anonymous

The Ebstorf Map, c. 1300 Anonymous master

Ferdinand Cortez. From: Trachtenbuch, 1529 Anonymous

The coronation of King Henry III, 13th century Anonymous

Silver mining and processing in Kutná Hora, Second Half of the 15th century Master Matheus)

Portrait of Empress Maria Theresia of Austria in Lace Long Gown, c. 1740 Anonymous

Miniature from Matâli al-saâdet by Seyyid Mohammed ibn Emir Hasan (left part), 1582 Anonymous

King Gustav III of Sweden and Catherine II of Russia in Fredrikshamn, 1784 Anonymous

Portrait of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, c. 1790 Anonymous

The Annunciation (Hours of Étienne Chevalier) Jean Fouquet

Alchemical notebook, c. 1620 Johann Grasshoff

Prudence and Justice (From Regia Carmina by Convenevole da Prato) Pacino di Buonaguida

Mediterranean and the Black Sea map, 1563 Jaume Olives