EditorialCervus, Parallel title: The longing stag a pious picture, Signed: J. A. Fridrich sculp, copperplate engraving, plate DL, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Fridrich, Jacob Andreas (sculp.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspurg und Ulm: ged...
EditorialItalian Writing Letters, Pen Drawing: 'display of all the Italian Writing Letters'. The letters are all drawn over each other to form a figure. Probably taken from a book. Part from the sketchbook by Jan Brandes, dl. 1 (1808), p. 67, Dutch East India C...
EditorialTronende Bellona Title page for: Le Mercure hollandois, dl VI, 1679, Tronende Bellona looks around at a tent where a wedding is being concluded. Above her, Mercury flies in the sky, in the foreground the Tweedracht (left) and Vader Tijd (right), Bellon...
EditorialWar armed with torch and sword Title page for: L. van den Bos, Historien onses tyds, dl. II, 1688, Open doors behind which stands a savage warrior (the War) with torch and sword. Surrounded by twelve smaller scenes of war acts from the years 1678-1687,...
EditorialAbundance and a hunter Title page for: Le Mercure hollandois, dl IX, ca. In the background Death in the form of a skeleton. Mars and Mercury are tied in the foreground, Abundance, 'Abondanza', 'Abondanza maritima' (Ripa), Hunter, Death as skeleton, (st...
EditorialCarpenters Guild of Middelburg, Silver Medal. Front: St. Joseph with turban on head, standing on pedestal, in open hand an open compass, in left hand a measuring stick within decorative border and two-line circumference. Reverse: drill, ax, square, saw...
EditorialDie cronycke van Hollant, Zeelant and de Vrieslant until the year 1517 etc. to Delft Kort waerachtich verael of the government and the memorial history of Foliant 'Die cronycke van Hollant ...' and 'Kort waerachtich verael van de rehearsal memorial his...
EditorialColoring drawing of a yard with an atap house on which three 'lascorin', a chief in the middle flanked by a gun and a pajung wearer, approach a man with a bun and loincloth. Two women on the right. Part from the sketchbook by Jan Brandes, dl. 1 (1808),...
EditorialMercury and Father Time hold a government apple together Title page for: Le Mercure hollandois, dl XII, 1685, Mercury and Father Time hold a government apple together. Right in the foreground is a Turkish boy with the Imperial Crown in his hands, (stor...
EditorialCapacity measure of 2 dl, Spanen capacity measure of 2 dl. No inscriptions or marks, Netherlands, anonymous, c. 1820, wood (plant material), h 7 cm ? d 7 cm.
EditorialCarpenters Guild of Middelburg, Silver Medal. Front: St. Joseph with turban on head, standing on pedestal, in open hand an open compass, in left hand a measuring stick within decorative border and two-line circumference. Reverse: drill, ax, square, saw...
EditorialAllegorical female figure paints a panel in the clouds Title page for: P. Cunaeus, The Republyk of Hebreen, or Commonwealth of Jews dl. 2, 1683, An allegorical female figure paints a panel in the clouds that is held by an angel. Below, two angels guard...
EditorialPeace and Mercury Title page for: Le Mercure hollandois, dl VIII, 1681, The personification of Peace and Mercury are hand in hand. The bound War lies at their feet. In the background a woman is hung on the left, (story of) Mercury (Hermes), symbols, al...
EditorialCollegium Medicum in Amsterdam, access fee for the hortus medicus of Dl. Dylius, Brass Medal. Front: Aesculapius with right hand leaning on snake rod and left hand under its mantle, standing between two vases with plants on a base, on the background wa...
EditorialContent size of 1 dl, Spanen capacity measure of 1 dl. No inscriptions or marks, Netherlands, anonymous, c. 1820, wood (plant material), h 6 cm ? d 6 cm.
EditorialA view of the north entrance of Westminster Abbey; the west towers in the middle distance to the left; figures in front of the entrance including a group of boys playing a game, two gentlemen studying the Abbey and a maid carrying two buckets. To the v...
Editorial"A first class fighting man". , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Arthur Balfour (1848 - 1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL. British Conservative politician and statesman. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902...
EditorialView of the south front of Westminster Abbey; flying buttresses stretching to the right; two towers of the west front visible in the middle distance; three scholars standing in the corner of a courtyard in the foreground. To the very Revd. Vincent DL. ...
EditorialSir Alfred Hickman, Bart; MP; DL. Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet (3 July 1830 – 11 March 1910) was an industrialist and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906. "... this Daimler has no faults". The Motorist and...
EditorialClosed Burgonet, ca. 1560, Italian, Steel, gold, H. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); W. 10 in. (25.4 cm); D. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm); Wt. 8 lb. 4 oz. (3755 g), Helmets, On cavalry helmets of this type, the face defense, called a falling buffe, can be lowered in thre...
EditorialRomulus, vainqueur d'Acron, porte les depuilles opimes au temple de Jupiter-Romulus, victorious against Acron, carries Acron's body to the temple of Jupiter, 1812. Canvas, 276 x 530 cm DL 1969-1.