Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)

Mary, Queen of Scots kneeling on the scaffold

William Nelson Gardiner, After John Francis Rigaud, Tebaldo Monzani, Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots going to the place of execution

William Nelson Gardiner, After John Francis Rigaud, Tebaldo Monzani, Mary, Queen of Scots

Hero Fainting in Church (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1)

Peter Simon, After William Hamilton, John & Josiah Boydell, William Shakespeare

Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Thew, After Matthew William Peters, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Thew, After Matthew William Peters, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

The Internment of Mary, Queen of Scots

William Nelson Gardiner, After John Francis Rigaud, Tebaldo Monzani, Mary, Queen of Scots

Lear Casting out his Daughter Cordelia

Richard Earlom

The Conclusion of the Treaty of Troyes

Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, After William Hamilton

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

William Hogarth, Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, William Shakespeare

Chronicles of France: Scene of the Fronde - The Prince of Condé

Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria, Achille Devéria

Singers' Contest on the Wartburg

Anton Romako

The Meeting, a man bows before a seated woman at center, while couples wearing masks converse in the background

Charles Joseph Flipart, After Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), Joseph Wagner