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Related content for the gallery "Enlightenment: Classifying the world"

Related highlight objects

  • A fake coin depicting Brutus
  • Brass astrolabe with silver inlay
  • Bronze goose
  • Calyx-krater (wine bowl)
  • Curiosities from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)
  • Edward VI coronation medal
  • Marble statue of Hermes
  • Maria Sibylla Merian, A Surinam caiman fighting a South American false coral snake, a drawing
  • Medals of the kings and queens of England by Jean Dassier
  • Objects from a tomb at Trebbia
  • Portrait plaque of Sir William Hamilton, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
  • Shoes collected by Hans Sloane
  • The 'Hunt krater'
  • The Sloane Astrolabe
  • Wooden inner-coffin of Irtyru

Related world cultures

  • Enlightenment Europe

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