EditorialFragment of the lock plate of a snap-cock lock of a musket, Fragment of the lock plate of a snap-cock lock. A piece of profiled flint is clamped in the rooster with the aid of a screw with an eye. The curiously shaped rooster is fixed by an axis throug...
EditorialPartial View of a Monument [Mercurii Templum] from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialOeneis, Print, Oeneis (the Arctics or graylings) is a butterfly genus of the Satyrinae. All but one of its members are Arctic, sub-Arctic or high-altitude alpine in distribution. Some of the members of the genus are among the butterflies that can get a...
EditorialParus cinctus, Print, The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit (Poecile cinctus, formerly Parus cinctus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and northern Asia, and also in...
EditorialPartial View of a Monument [Mercurii Templum] from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialHead of Otegoongoon. A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Ma. Stanfield Parkinson: London, 1773. Head of Otegoongoon, son of a New Zealand chief, the face curiously tattooed. Image taken from A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His ...
EditorialA tattooed New Zealand chief. The Head of a Chief of New Zealand, the face curiously tataowd, or mark'd, according to their manner. Portrait. A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas , in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour (under the command of Captain J...
EditorialPrince Siyawush. Shahnama. Isfahan, Iran, 1630-1640. Prince Siyawush at the court of Afrasiyab. Trees and two curiously European looking minarets are shown in the upper margin. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally published/produced in Isfahan, Iran...
EditorialTwo children and their schoolmasters. A Christmas Carol ... Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London; J. B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia : Wiiliam Heinemann, 1915. 'He produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake.'. Sour...
EditorialThe Queen coming through the city in triumph.' 'The return of the gospel.' 'The pooling (pulling) down & burning of Popish images.'. [The History of the Glorious Life, Reign, and Death of the illustrious Queen Elizabeth ... Illustrated with pictures of...
EditorialStainborough and Wentworth. [Britannia Illustrata or views of several of the Q. 1720-1740. A prospect of Stainborough and of York. Wentworth Castle. Image taken from [Britannia Illustrata or views of several of the Queen's Palaces as also of the princ...
EditorialAn instruction book on dancing. The Movements of the Minuet. Illustration of man and woman dancing. Music score. . An Easy Introduction to Dancing. England. Image from An Easy Introduction to Dancing: or, the Movements in the Minuet fully explained. Ad...
EditorialPartial View of a Monument [Mercurii Templum] from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialModern Oddities by P. Pry Esq., Plate 1st: The Sleeves Curiously Cut, Ay There's the Villainy - vide Shakespeare, June 30, 1829, Hand-colored etching, plate: 10 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (25.7 x 36.2 cm), Prints, William Heath ('Paul Pry') (British, London 1795...
EditorialNews of the Stag from the series known as the Hunters' Chase, designed before 1645, woven ca. 1645?75, British, Mortlake, Wool (15-16 warps per inch, 6-7 per cm.), H. 136 x W. 183 inches (345.4 x 464.8 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, Related to designs proba...