Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of computing and she loved the new technology of photography too. These pictures are now worth ...

· The Attic Sale, featuring lots from Powderham Castle and Brocklesbury Park, home of the Earl and Countess of Yarlborough, ...

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced Wednesday by nationally renowned civil rights ...

The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle to release the 19th-century “daguerreotypes," a precursor to modern-day ...

The 19th-century portraits of Angelo Giulio "Diego" Bernacchi ... recently visited Tasmania for the first time to trace her family's history and visit the heritage-listed home on Maria Island ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

Lundgren noted a striking similarity between the abstract geometric shapes in af Klint's work and scientific diagrams in 19th century physicist ... focused on drawing, portraits, botanical ...

At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is offering a rare double-sided portrait by 18th-century artist ... “The sitter or family was not pleased by Phillips’s ...

However, there have long been attacks on Gladstone over his family's involvement in slavery ... terms totalling 12 years in the late 19th Century, was also responsible for major progressive ...

The Caledonian Mercury of January 1842 noted that “Mr Thomas Cleghorn, formerly of the Princes Street Nursery Gardens, who last year emigrated to New Zealand, with all his family, has been ...

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed ... U.S., and tells a fascinating story of a free Black family before emancipation. It’s also a rare work from ...

Grounded in their mother’s lap, these babies exist in a triangulated embrace that memorializes the intimacy of family connections ... far more than did 19th-century portrait conventions.