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'The majority of art historians attribute to Paolo Uccello the two small paintings of St George and the Dragon (National Gallery, London and Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris). The London picture was probaly painted around 1456 and the Paris one shortly afterwards, not later than 1460. They confirm Paol...

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The Gotthard Post is one of the best-loved Swiss paintings, embodying as it does the quintessence of the Alpine country. The stagecoach, now the very model of romantic serenity, had at the time only been travelling the pass for a few decades. The new road was celebrated as a masterpiece of engineeri...

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Märklin’s Rocket train set commemorates the steam locomotive prizewinner of 1829. Briton George Stephenson’s Rocket won the Liverpool and Manchester Railway’s competition for its new passenger line, hauling 13 tons over 35 miles at an average speed of 29 miles per hour. The jaunty toy version, model...

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By the early 1870s, it was possible to travel from Delhi via Amritsar, Lahore and Multan to Karachi through a combination of passenger trains run by the Delhi Railway, Punjab Railway, and Scinde Railway, and passenger steamships run by the Indus Steam Flotilla. The North-West Frontier Province and B...

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The tobacco bag formed an important personal accessory for the Native American inhabitants of the western Plains. For Indian men, the act of smoking tobacco was a sacred activity, marking an occasion when spiritual guidance was needed. Pipe smoking was a means of communicating with the spirits; toba...

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Sculpture of great simplicity and beauty that represents a young man in the typical Mexica style. He is sitting in the manner of indigenous people: they used to sit with knees drawn up and arms resting on them and folded across the chest. He is dressed with a plain máxtlatl tied in the front and the...

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