EditorialPeace of Rijswijk, medal struck by order of the city of Gouda, Silver medal. Obverse: under William's crowned coat of arms, William III, in the guise of Herkules de Nijd, trampled as a peace offering on a altar of peace, the weapons discarded in a circ...
EditorialGustave Courbet: Woman with White Stockings (La Femme aux bas blancs), Gustave Courbet, 1864, Oil on canvas, Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative. Here, Courbet s...
EditorialOn the right, seeing his sons and Sītā clad in robes of bark, Da?aratha loses consciousness and falls from the throne. The three exiles then kneel before the queens. Sītā is embraced by Kausalyā, who reminds her unnecessarily that her first duty ...
EditorialThe ascetic's wife, to whom he had inadvertently confided his powers, uses the magic to cover her husband with multiple penises, his clothing lying discarded beside him. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatur...
EditorialThe ascetic's wife, to whom he had inadvertently confided his powers, uses the magic to cover her husband with multiple penises, his clothing lying discarded beside him. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatur...
EditorialA scene of the French revolution. A man looking at a pile of discarded books and scrolls. 'Poudriere et bibliotheque' in Contes pour les bibliophiles ... Nombreuses illustrations, etc. Paris, 1895. Source: 12513.m.22 opposite page 152.
EditorialOn the right, seeing his sons and Sītā clad in robes of bark, Da?aratha loses consciousness and falls from the throne. The three exiles then kneel before the queens. Sītā is embraced by Kausalyā, who reminds her unnecessarily that her first duty ...
EditorialGroup of Nude Male Figures Kneeling and Standing in Supplication, ca. 1598, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Squared in red chalk, 6-15/16 x 7-13/16 in. (17.6 x 19.8 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Baglione (Italian, Rome 1566?1643 Rome), As pointed ou...
EditorialGlass Fragment, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1458 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1905, Glass, l. 1.6 cm (5/8 in); w. 1.2 cm (1/2 in), This lump of dark blue glass was...
EditorialSCENES ON BOARD H.M.S. ANSON AFTER THE CATASTROPHE: 1. Landing the Dead the Morning after the Disaster. 2. Clothing the Naked One of Rescued Boys in the Discarded Raiment of a Petty Officer. 3. Rescued only to Die An Old Man, a Married Woman, and a Chi...