EditorialVienna besieged by the Turks, 1683 Viennese besieged by the Turks, and dismembered by the King of Poland in the Year 1683 (title on object), Print upper right: fol. 242, attack, siege, Vienna, Jan Luyken (mentioned on object), 1689, paper, etching, h 1...
EditorialPage from a Sketchbook Depicting a City under Siege and a Scene of Homage(?) (recto); standing figures and a horseman; male and female figures; a battle scene (verso), 1520s, Pen and brown ink; at the top, traces of a sketch in red chalk (recto); Pen a...
EditorialThe Virgin, Tempera and oil on wood, gold ground, Overall 18 3/4 x 15 7/8 in. (47.6 x 40.3 cm), Paintings, Spanish (Catalan) Painter (second quarter 15th century), The present painting is the second in a sequence of five panels from a dismembered banco...
EditorialSketches of Figures of the Virgin Kneeling, Saint Peter Standing, Seated Allegorical Figures of Faith and Charity, and Child Standing on a Corbel (?) (recto); Sketches of Figures of Saint Sebastian Standing and the Virgin and Child with Angels (verso).
EditorialOetes, raising his hands at the dismembered body of his son; in the foreground, Jason and Medea fleeing. The Fall of Princes , abridged. England, S. E. (probably Suffolk, possibly Bury St Edmunds); c. 1450 - c. 1460. Source: Harley 1766, f.31v. Languag...
EditorialFlight of the Sultan of Damascus. History of the Crusades. France; between 1250 and 1259. [Miniature only] Book XIX. Initial 'R', Nureddin, Sultan of Damascus, in mail-coat and wearing an open helmet, flees on horseback, with a foal underfoot. Two knig...
EditorialIsfandiyar giving thanks. Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 49 miniatures. Opaque w. 1590-1600. Isfandiyar giving thanks after killing the wolves. On the ground is a dismembered corpse. A trifle discoloured. 12.5 by 14.5 cm. Image taken from Shahnama of Fird...
EditorialPsalm 93; scenes of murder. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 93. Border decoration with grotesques, and scenes of violence. At the top, a man with sword and buckler threatens an unarmed man who looks round i...
EditorialIllustration of the Sixth Parable; a dishevelled man holding a golden head, the dismembered corpse at his feet; borders decorated with birds and flowers. Splendor Solis. Germany, 1582. (Whole folio) Illustration of the Sixth Parable; a dishevelled man ...
EditorialDeath of the Franciscan missionaries, dismembered and devoured by Caribbean Indians to whom they had attempted to evangelise in 1516. Engraving, 1850. Color.
EditorialSketches of Figures of the Virgin Kneeling, Saint Peter Standing, Seated Allegorical Figures of Faith and Charity, and Child Standing on a Corbel (?) (recto); Sketches of Figures of Saint Sebastian Standing and the Virgin and Child with Angels (verso).
EditorialBroadsheet relating to a news story about a young mother who dismembered her newborn, a woman discovering the scene of the crime, Jos? Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851?1913), 1905.
EditorialPage from a Sketchbook Depicting a City under Siege and a Scene of Homage(?) (recto); standing figures and a horseman; male and female figures; a battle scene (verso), 1520s, Pen and brown ink; at the top, traces of a sketch in red chalk (recto); Pen a...
EditorialThe Virgin, Tempera and oil on wood, gold ground, Overall 18 3/4 x 15 7/8 in. (47.6 x 40.3 cm), Paintings, Spanish (Catalan) Painter (second quarter 15th century), The present painting is the second in a sequence of five panels from a dismembered banco...
EditorialDeath of the Franciscan missionaries, dismembered and devoured by Caribbean Indians to whom they had attempted to evangelise in 1516. Engraving, 1850. Color.