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Napoleon and the Sphinx

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol II (1894)

[Napoleon] was bent on the conquest of Egypt. He appears to have had something visionary in his temperament, and to have dreamed of founding a mighty empire from the stand-point of the East, the glow [...]

Keywords: monuments, people, horses, soldiers, deserts, mythological creatures

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-09-02

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The Lobster Quadrille

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon demonstrating the Lobster Quadrille to Alice. So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, [...]

Keywords: alice, mythological creatures, gryphons, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-30

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Title page detail: facing the gorgon

The New World (1671)

In this engraving from the title page, a two-faced woman uses a mirror to look safely at the medusa in the border of the picture. She is Prudence, trampling on Envy, a man with snakes instead of hair, [...]

Keywords: people, mythological creatures

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-09

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