EditorialCalendar scene for August: Harvesting near a river. (Below) Throwing sticks at a tethered bird. The Golf Book. S. Netherlands (Bruges), 1520-1530. Source: Add. 24098, f.25v. Language: Latin.
EditorialMandan medicine man Wak-a-dah-ha-hee, White Buffalo's Hair, performing a rain dance, and Mandan warriors playing Tchung-kee, a game of skill played with a ring and sticks. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of t...
EditorialTullock-chish-ko, He Who Drinks the Juice of the Stone, the most distinguished ball player of the Choctaw nation, with his sticks and a tail made of white horsehair or feathers, and a mane of dyed horsehair on his shoulders. Handcoloured lithograph fro...
EditorialCourtyard of an Inn on the Thames, Thomas Shotter Boys, 18031874, British, undated, Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 12 3/8 ? 8 inches (31.4 ? 20.3 cm), architectural ...
EditorialSir Anthony van Dyck, Print made by John Corner, 17881825, after Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 15991641, Flemish, active in Britain (162021; 163234; 163541), Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, active 18041914, British, and Lackington, Allen, & Co...
EditorialA polo scene with the heads of the polo sticks in a circle around the ball. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Garaib us-sigar. Garaib us-sigar. c.1520-1530. Source: Or. 13061, f.87v. Language: Eastern Turkish.
EditorialFuneral medal following the death of Laurens Pit, among others. governor of Coromandel from 1652 to 1663 and Council of India from 1662 to 1678, on June 29, 1684 in Batavia, cast gold oval medallion with cord edging, vz: skeleton facing the spectator h...
EditorialVirgin of the Apocalypse Maria apocaliptic, Maria stands on the left leg above the globe on the crescent moon, with his right knee bent forward. The head is turned to the left, the left shoulder recedes to the rear, the left foot enters the snake, the ...
EditorialTwo Gentlemen with Walking Sticks. Philipp William May; English, 1864-1903. Date: 1893. Dimensions: 318 ? 258 mm. Pen and black ink over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper. Origin: England.
EditorialTwo Gentlemen with Walking Sticks. Philipp William May; English, 1864-1903. Date: 1893. Dimensions: 318 ? 258 mm. Pen and black ink over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper. Origin: England.