1500s Gallery

John Calvin and the four syndics at Geneva

John Calvin and the four syndics founding the seminary which became the College of Geneva, 1559.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Natives gathering food in Florida, 1500s

Florida Native Americans gathering crocodiles, fish, and other wild animals and plants, 1591.
Hand-colored Debry engraving of a LeMoyne painting

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Peasant paying rent in the late Middle Ages

Tenant paying rent, from a book of surveying printed in England, 1523.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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