EditorialCary's New Terrestrial Globe, 1800. ary's New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America; and M. De La Pe?rouse, on the Coast of Tartary ... Made .....
EditorialRustam mourning the dying Suhrab. Shahnama. Isfahan, Iran, 1630-1640. Rustam mourning the dying Suhrab. Pale ground, rocky horizon and stream in foreground: large central tree. A highly symmetrical composition. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally p...
EditorialGlobe on a stand. Globe terrestre. [Paris?] : Robert de Vaugondy, 1827. Mounted on a wooden stand with wooden meridian ring, hour ring and horizon ring. Horizon ring with signs of the zodiac on upper surface. Physical Description: 1 globe : col ; 21 ...
EditorialPsalm 113. Border decoration with a large bird grotesque with two human faces wearing a three-pointed hat, each point surmounted by a green trefoil. Lower margin; the first of the kitchen scenes; a sucking pig between two birds are cooking on a horizon...
EditorialMr Senex's Terrestrial Globe, ca.1757. Mr Senex's Terrestrial Globe, Now drawn and improved according to the latest Observations by James Ferguson. Thos. Bowen Sculpt. London : Made and Sold by Benj. Martin Fleet Street, [ca.1757]. Mounted on a four-le...
EditorialA celestial globe. A New C?lestial Globe whereon y Stars are Carefully laid down from y Correct Observations of Mr Hevelius, Capt Halley & c. By Ion Senex F.R.S. London : Now made & sold with very considerable Improvements By B. Martin in Fleet Street...
EditorialColoured illustrated front cover of the science/romantic fiction novel by Jules Verne. The Green Ray Translated from the French by M de Hauteville. London : Sampson Low & Co., 1883. Green flashes and green rays are rare optical phenomena that occur sho...
EditorialColour illustrated cover showing a boy scout watching a ship on the horizon. The Scout. London, England: April 18, 1908. Source: The Scout no.1, vol.1.
EditorialTwo figures, Kay and Gerda, waving at a sunset on the horizon. The word 'eternity' can be seen in the sky. Illustration for the seventh story, of the Snow Queen's castle and what happened there at last.'. The snow queen / Hans Christian Andersen ; draw...
EditorialTerrestrial Globe. Wright's New Improved Terrestrial Globe, on which the latitudes and longitudes of places are carefully laid down and all the new discoveries made by the late Capt. Cook and other eminent navigators to the present time. Made and sold ...
EditorialThe murder of Iraj. Shahnama. Isfahan, Iran, 1630-1640. The murder of Iraj by his brothers Tur and Salm. Mauve landscape with stream, rocky horizon and foreground and gold sky. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally published/produced in Isfahan, Iran...
EditorialTitle and a picture of a boy scout watching a ship on the horizon. Scouting for Boys. A handbook for instruction in good citizenship ... Illustrated. London : Horace Cox, [1908]. Source: 8821.a.21 part I, front cover.
EditorialCelestial globe, on a stand. [A Celestial Globe, 18 inches in diameter, with dedicatory title as follows:] Britanniarum Regi Augustissimo Georgio Tertio Astronomorum Patrono Munificentissimo, Celeberrimo, Globum hunc Caelestem, novam et emendatiorem ca...
EditorialLe Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on a...
EditorialEgypt. Abydos. Temple of Seti I. New Kingdom. 19th Dynasty. The Pharaoh Ramesses II with Ra-Harakti (Horus of the Horizon). Second courtyard wall. 1292-1189 BC.
EditorialRed jasper amulet of the sun on the horizon, Late Dynastic?Hellenistic, 664?30 B.C., Egyptian, Jasper, red, H.: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm), Gold and Silver, Amulet of the rising sun.
EditorialRoman fresco depicting Ariadne forsaken by Theseus whose ship can be seen on the horizon. Second half of 2nd century. From Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
EditorialView of Slot Zeist with gardens, view toward Bunnik, on the horizon a tower at Amersfoort, The Netherlands, print maker: Dani?l Stopendaal, Dating 1682 - 1726.
EditorialSurveying equipment from the 19th century: circumferentor and cross, horizon glass and index glass. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an Illustration by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary," London, 1815.
EditorialEgypt. Abydos. Temple of Seti I. New Kingdom. 19th Dynasty. The Pharaoh Ramesses II with Ra-Harakti (Horus of the Horizon). Second courtyard wall. 1292-1189 BC.
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Insurgents stormed the Soviet bookstore " Horizon" in Kossuth Lajos street and ...
EditorialThe Flight to Egypt (the medieval city of Vienna in the background). The star of the Three Magi on the horizon. One of 21 (originally 24) panels from the altar of Schottenkirche-church in Vienna (1469-1480). Tempera on oakwood, 80 x 80 cm.
EditorialMarin-Epagnier, as seen from the site of La Tene, which gave the name to the entire culture period. View towards the west banks of the lake of Neuchatel, the Jura Mountains on the horizon (afternoon light) .
EditorialAmenhatep-User, the Pharaoh's " Guardian of the Horizon" and his wife Uadju. In relief left and right his son and daughter. Quartzite (around 1450 BCE), 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt Inv. 2298.