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Staffa: Fingal’s Cave by JMW Turner

An island that captured Romantic imaginations

Two halves of an egg geode

An egg that crystallized into a geode over fifty million years

Statue of Yung Wing

The first Chinese student to graduate from an American university

Cyanotype of poppies

Otherworldly images produced by an early form of photography

"The Night Café,” by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh’s luminous late-night haunt

“The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” by John Trumbull

Painting the birth of American independence

Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis

Touring Byzantine antiquity

A selection of William H. Townsend’s sketches of Amistad prisoners

Pencil sketches of the Amistad prisoners

Painted plaster bust of African American newspaper boy from the 1920s

An expressive sculpture from the Harlem Renaissance

Roman shield

A painted shield once wielded by Roman soldiers

Detail of page from Voynich manuscript

Deciphering a mysterious manuscript

“Zebra,” by George Stubbs

The first zebra publicly exhibited in Britain 

Detail of manuscript

The first known prison memoir written by a Black American

Detail of the painting “The Waterfall” by Kandinsky

Kandinsky’s mysterious exploration of color and form