Edward Higgins White II (1930-1967), American astronaut Finish:20-pack A detail from this painting

A detail from this painting forms part of plate 1 of "The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

Napoleon III of France was struggling against a wave of unpopularity at the time

Sir Galahad

Inscribed in pencil lower left '1818'

Samson and Delilah

Edward Higgins White II (1930-1967), American astronaut Finish:20-pack A detail from this paintingEdward Higgins White II (1930 1967), American astronaut, 1960s. Higgins was a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. On the 3rd June 1965, he became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. He was killed during the Apollo 1 training accident and posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and was previously awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal for his Gemini 4 spaceflight.