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The men from the military border. These were locally recruited soldiers organized in volunteer corps, whose task it was to guard the border against the Turks. Members of the Wurmser-volunteer corps, 1793
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The men from the military border. These were locally recruited soldiers organ...

Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy), Turkish governor of Tunis. The painter Vermeyen as war correspondent. Next to him Felipe de Guevara. Cartoons for twelve tapestries. Charcoal and watercolour on paper,385 x 662 cm,Inv.2038 In 1535 the Spanish Empire attacked Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Holy Roman Emperor Karl V (Charles V) of the Habsburg dynasty assembled a huge army and war fleet. He defeated Barbarossa's fleet and, after a siege, captured Tunis on June 1 1535.
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Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Gra...

Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy), Turkish governor of Tunis. Karl V (without armour) at the head of a cavalry detach- ment which repelled a Turkish sortee from Goleta. charcoal and watercolour on paper,385 x 662 cm,Inv.2038 In 1535 the Spanish Empire attacked Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Holy Roman Emperor Karl V (Charles V) of the Habsburg dynasty assembled a huge army and war fleet. He defeated Barbarossa's fleet and, after a siege, captured Tunis on June 1 1535.
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Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Gra...

Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy), Turkish governor of Tunis. The battle on the way to Tunis:Karl V at the head of the imperial cavalry (center right),12 Cartoons, charcoal and watercolour on paper,385 x 662 cm,Inv.2038 In 1535 the Spanish Empire attacked Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Holy Roman Emperor Karl V (Charles V) of the Habsburg dynasty assembled a huge army and war fleet. He defeated Barbarossa's fleet and, after a siege, captured Tunis on June 1 1535.
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Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Gra...

Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy), Turkish governor of Tunis. Imperial galleys leaving Tunis after the campaign. Cartoons for 12 tapestries,charcoal and watercolour on paper, 385 x 662 cm, Inv.2038 In 1535 the Spanish Empire attacked Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Holy Roman Emperor Karl V (Charles V) of the Habsburg dynasty assembled a huge army and war fleet. He defeated Barbarossa's fleet and, after a siege, captured Tunis on June 1 1535.
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Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Gra...

Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy), Turkish governor of Tunis. End of the campaign.In front of a tent,Karl V signs a new treaty with Mulay Hassan,King of Tunis.Cartoons, charcoal and watercolour on paper,385 x 662 cm,Inv.2038 In 1535 the Spanish Empire attacked Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Holy Roman Emperor Karl V (Charles V) of the Habsburg dynasty assembled a huge army and war fleet. He defeated Barbarossa's fleet and, after a siege, captured Tunis on June 1 1535.
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Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Gra...

Fireworks in honour of the 800 years jubilee of the Abbey of Ranshofen, Upper Austria, in 1699. Watercolour by an anonymous artist from a contemporary, illuminated manuscript. Inv. Ha 6751
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Fireworks in honour of the 800 years jubilee of the Abbey of Ranshofe...

Design for the Postal Savings Bank in Vienna, 1903 Watercolor
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Design for the Postal Savings Bank in Vienna, 1903 Watercolor

Portrait of a Chipewah-Indian, 1851 By Johann Baptist Wengler. Watercolour on paper, 14,6 x 12 cm Ha 290
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Portrait of a Chipewah-Indian, 1851 By Johann Baptist Wengle...

Aztec human sacrifice,Mexico, 16th
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Aztec human sacrifice,Mexico, 16th

Ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract from Persia. This contract of marriage between Leah bat Eliahu and Yehezkiel ben Yosef, is decorated with a traditional Persian symbol,the half-moon face rising over lions. From Isfahan, 1860. Watercolour on paper, 93 x 68 cm
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Ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract from Persia. This contract of marriage bet...

Book of prayers and blessings, from Tzelem, Hungary, 1751. It was the custom in small communities, for a father-in-law to give his new daughter-in-law such a book, instructing her on when to say what prayer or blessing. Parchment, 9,5 x 5,2 cm
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Book of prayers and blessings, from Tzelem, Hungary, 1751. It was the custom...