EditorialSaucer-dish with bears and leaf motifs, The shape of the saucer, where the center point is visible in the center, is stamped with the help of stamp shapes: a rosette with six leaves, surrounded by a motif of five times repeated a bear that has climbed ...
Editorial... Lunardi climbed into the basket with Biggin and Madame Sage, Hot air balloon ride by Vincenzo Lunardi, George Biggin and Letitia Ann Sage on 14 September 1784, Signed: H. Rousseau, Fig. 31, p. 153, Rousseau, Henri (dess.), 1876, Alfred Sircos; Th. ...
EditorialFruit vendor's guild from Dordrecht, guild token from Jan Landtmeter, Copper medal. Front: lit by the shining sun, bricklayer with trowel in hand stands on scaffolding against house, ladder rests against scaffolding, which is climbed on his shoulder by...
EditorialView of the Coehoorn, Zeeland and Utrecht fortifications in Bergen op Zoom View of the Coehoorn Orillion and the Zeeland and Utrecht Lunets, at Bergen op den Zoom (title on object), View of the Coehoorn fortifications, Zeeland and Utrecht in Bergen op ...
EditorialDish with a man and a boy looking at a boy in a tree, Porcelain dish with round wall, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold. On the front three people in a fenced garden: a man is standing next t...
EditorialSynod van Dordrecht, Silver Medal. Front: meeting room with in the middle a table with people and around benches with people inside a circle. Reverse: sanctuary on mountain top, climbed by people within a circle., Dordrecht, Fran?ois Schillemans, 1619,...
EditorialLower right corner of a print of the scene of Cebes Tabula Cebetis Carta Vitae (original title), Allegory about the way of salvation of man. Life as a city with three walled grounds, with a temple in the middle. Children 's souls are waiting at the out...
EditorialSynod van Dordrecht, Silver Medal. Front: meeting room with in the middle a table with people and around benches with people inside a circle. Reverse: sanctuary on mountain top, climbed by people within a circle. Compare FM nrs. 1337 and 1339., Dordrec...
EditorialThree naked men in landscape Climbers, Three naked men who just climbed a slope. One of the three tries to help a fourth figure who is still climbing (hand visible below). In the background a landscape with a shed, male sex, man, the (nude) human figur...
EditorialSītā had been aware of Hanumān’s plight and prayed to the god of Fire not to allow him to suffer. Hanumān too had repented of his rashness in setting fire to the entire city in case it had harmed Sītā, but had realised that her innocence would ...
EditorialThe festival of Eton Montem with the procession up Mount Salt Hill. Held every three years, Eton college old boys climbed the local hill and paid salt to the school. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy,...
EditorialAdd. 22689, ff.26-27 Liu Gang and his wife both Daoist/Taoist adepts. A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. China, 1750. Lu Gang and his wife were both Daoist/Taoist adepts who knew things other people do not know. On the mountain of Four B...
Editorial"The pirates climbed up the sides of the man-of-war as if they had been twenty-nine cats". Illustration showing pirates boarding a ship. . Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts ... New York, 1898. Source: 9770.aa.8, opposite 37.
Editorial"At evening-tide she climbed up into a little tree, and purposed spending the night there, for fear of the wild beasts." The Iron Stone. The Fairy Book ... By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman” [Dinah Maria Craik] With 32 illustrations in colo...
EditorialSītā had been aware of Hanumān’s plight and prayed to the god of Fire not to allow him to suffer. Hanumān too had repented of his rashness in setting fire to the entire city in case it had harmed Sītā, but had realised that her innocence would ...
Editorial"And she climbed up and easily broke off a branch, with its silver leaves and and golden fruit, and handed it to the knight." Little One Eye, little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes. The Fairy Book ... By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman” [Din...
EditorialAdd. 22689, ff.26-27 Liu Gang and his wife both Daoist/Taoist adepts. A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. China, 1750. Lu Gang and his wife were both Daoist/Taoist adepts who knew things other people do not know. On the mountain of Four B...
EditorialArchitectural relief. Harvest scene. Man climbed a ladder to collect dates palm. Another man holds a basket. Suburb of Tarraco (Tarragona). 1st-2nd century AD. Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Tarragona. Catalonia, Spain.
EditorialA Woman Playing with a Monkey which Has Climbed a Tree, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1770, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 27 1/2 in. (69.9 cm); W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725?1770).
EditorialThe festival of Eton Montem with the procession up Mount Salt Hill. Held every three years, Eton college old boys climbed the local hill and paid salt to the school. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy,...
EditorialArchitectural relief. Harvest scene. Man climbed a ladder to collect dates palm. Another man holds a basket. Suburb of Tarraco (Tarragona). 1st-2nd century AD. Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Tarragona. Catalonia, Spain.
EditorialOrongo, a rocky peak on the slopes of Rano Kau volcano, was the ceremonial center of the birdman cult. Boys climbed down the precipice and swam to the small islands to fetch the first egg of the sea swallow. The winning clan then governed the island fo...