The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

La Matrone d'Ephese, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795

Jean-Louis Delignon, After Jean Honoré Fragonard, Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Didot l'ainé

Lucretia deploring her misfortune to her husband Collatinus, her father, Publius Valerius, and Junius Brutus

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder, After Andrea Casali, John Boydell

Minerva and Mercury

Domenico Marchetti, After Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Published by Francesco Bartolozzi

Alexander Enthroned

Attributed to Giulio Bonasone

Empedocles receiving the divine honors from the inhabitants of Salinonte for having a river purified: Project proposed b the Charivari to the Academy of Fine Arts, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 1, 1866

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Arnaud de Vresse

Jephthah's daughter kneeling by the sacrificial altar, with her father standing at right

Pietro Monaco, After Giovanni Ghisolfi

Simonides and Thaisa (Shakespeare, Pericles, Act 2, Scene 2)

Frederick Bacon, After Henry Corbould, William Shakespeare

Judith cutting the head off Holofernes

Hieronymus Ferroni, Carlo Maratti

Rome, Titus's Garden–Lucius Pursued by Lavinia (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 1)

Thomas Kirk, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

Scene from 'A Winter's Tale'

Charles Robert Leslie

Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture

After Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Pierre Chenu

Sacrifice to Ceres

Unknown artist