Editorialthe Bantam Road, Map of the Bantam anchorage from the 18th century, signed: dress?e sur les Observations des meilleurs Geographes., A LEIDE, Chez PIERRE VAN DER AA, Fig. 18, after p. 360, Aa, Pierre van der (chez), 1727, Adam Olearius: Voyages tr?s-cur...
EditorialAqua sale sanata, Parallel Title: The Water Cur made by Saltz, Signed: B. S. Sedletzky sculps, Copper Engraving, Plate CCCCLXXVII, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Setlezki, Balthasar Sigmund (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspu...
EditorialPortrait of the Ferrante Imperato museum, Wunderkammer, Fig. 1, before p. 1, 1672, Ferrante Imperato: Historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano. Nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di minere, pietre pretiose, & altre cur...
EditorialEpileptic convulsions cured by a miracle, Parallel Title: Wonder Cur on a Conscious Person, Signed: J. G. Thelot sculps, copperplate engraving, plate DCLXXXV, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Thelot, Jacob Gottlieb (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kup...
EditorialThe catechism of Rodez explained in form of sermons; a work equally useful to the clergy, religious communities, and faithful : Luche, abb?, cur? of Montbazens.
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with feather-shaped flower and star-shaped flower, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Binche lace. The repeating and continuous pattern consists of a feather-shaped flower and a star-shaped flower with five pointed petals on cur...
EditorialHexagonal charcoal burner with diaper patterns, Hexagonal charcoal burner (hiire) of stoneware, partially covered with a crackled, gray glaze and painted in underglaze blue. On the outside wall a wide band with napkin work with a narrower band with cur...
EditorialSaint John the Evangelist John the Evangelist, John the Evangelist stands on a piece of land with the left foot slightly to the front, his head sideways and his eyes down (on the missing chalice). He raises the right hand, the left arm is bent. The cur...
EditorialArmchair upholstered in tapestry with a boy playing on a bagpipe (petit joueur de cornemuse) (back) and a dog hunting ducks (seat), Armchair of gilded beech wood, resting on conically shaped legs. The armchair belongs to an ameublement. On the pink cur...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with up and down curling flower branch on continuous branch, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: old Flemish bobbin lace with braided soil. The repeating pattern consists of a continuous wavy branch with in each wave valley a cur...
EditorialOvoid jar with peony scrolls and four handles, Egg-shaped pot of stoneware with a wide, short neck, painted in underglaze blue. On the belly a wide band with peonies and a wide band with lotus leaf-shaped compartments, in between a narrow band with cur...
Editorial'Tottenham, 1815.' Luke Howard's daily barometric pressure readings are amongst the earliest consistent scientific observations recorded. Barometrographia: twenty years' variation of the barometer in the climate of Britain, exhibited in autographic cur...
EditorialA view of a ruined castle with a round castellated tower with small windows, and a gatehouse flanked by square towers, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea to left. Other buildings and ruins line the cliffs as they run inland to right, before cur...
Editorial'Tottenham, 1815.' Luke Howard's daily barometric pressure readings are amongst the earliest consistent scientific observations recorded. Barometrographia: twenty years' variation of the barometer in the climate of Britain, exhibited in autographic cur...
EditorialThe treacherous cur. The Fables of ?sop and others. Translated into hum. W. Kent & Co.: London, 1857. A dog and his master. Image taken from The Fables of ?sop and others. Translated into human nature, designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Be...
EditorialLe Cur? de Cucugnan (The Vicar of Cucugnan). Dated: c. 1885. Dimensions: plate: 17.4 x 11.4 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 30.2 x 20.8 cm (11 7/8 x 8 3/16 in.). Medium: etching, drypoint, aquatint (spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on Ja...
EditorialTheatrvm pictorivm: in quo exhibentur ipsius manu delineat?, eiusque cur? in ?s incise pictur?, archetip? Italic?, quas ipse ser. mus Archdux in pinacothecam suam Bruxellis collegit.
EditorialBearded man with chain necklace, 1647, Etching; third state of three (NH), Plate: 4 1/4 in. ? 3 in. (10.8 ? 7.6 cm), Prints, After Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98?1543 London), Portrait of an elderly man with short straight hair, cur...
EditorialLimestone head of a bearded male wearing a conical helmet, Archaic, first half of the 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 14 1/2 x 9 x 13 1/2 in. (36.8 x 22.9 x 34.3 cm), Stone Sculpture, The smooth beard with a central incision and four cur...
EditorialGlass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment, Early Imperial, late 1st century B.C.?early 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; cast and tooled, H.: 1 15/16 in. (5 x 4.1 cm), Glass, Body fragment, thin-walled., Translucent deep honey brown and opaque white., Convex cur...
EditorialGlass mosaic fragment, Early Imperial, late 1st century B.C.?early 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; cast, Other: 1 x 1 3/16 in. (2.6 x 3 cm), Glass, Translucent purple and blue, opaque white and yellow, and colorless., Part of flat bottom and convex cur...
EditorialGlass mosaic fragment, Early Imperial, late 1st century B.C.?early 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; cast, Other: 15/16 x 1 1/16 in. (2.4 x 2.8 cm), Glass, Body fragment., Translucent deep purple, appearing chocolate brown, and opaque yellow., Convex cur...
EditorialGlass beaker, Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Glass; blown in a dip mold and trailed, H.: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm), Glass, Translucent pale blue green; trail in same color., Everted rim with rounded lip; cylindrical body with vertical side, then cur...
EditorialStanding female tambourine player, Cypro-Archaic II, ca. 600?480 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; wheel-made and hand-made, H. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm), Terracottas, The solid, cylindrical wheel-made body flares toward a concave base. The arms, added by hand, cur...