EditorialLantern Slide - Woman in Ice Cave, circa 1900, Lantern Slide of a woman crossing a small chasm in an ice cave. From around 1880 this format of photographic lantern slide came to dominate slide production. pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera the Austra...
EditorialTureen and stand Dish Dish Dish painted with two landscapes inside cartouches, Dish from porcelain. Multicolored (green and brown dominate) painted with two landscapes inside cartouches with a golden rim of rocailles. In between scatter flowers. along ...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with pointed oval and stylized males, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Lille lace. The repeating and continuous pattern consists of concatenated pointed ovals along the underside of the strip. From each oval a round flower ris...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with daisies with open flower hearts, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Lille lace. The repeating pattern starts below the center line of the strip and consists from the bottom upwards of a daisy with an open flower heart, with...
EditorialJar with Basket of Auspicious Flowers, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), Qianlong period (1736?95), 18th century, China, Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. 24 in. (61 cm), Ceramics, In some of the porcelain on v...
EditorialCentral Africa. Napoleon Channel (Lake Victoria) seen from the heights that dominate the Ripon Waterfalls. Squad of Muteesa I of Buganda (1837-1884), Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda (at present Uganda), that navigated from Usoga to Uganda. Engraving. ...
EditorialCentral Africa. Napoleon Channel (Lake Victoria) seen from the heights that dominate the Ripon Waterfalls. Squad of Muteesa I of Buganda (1837-1884), Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda (at present Uganda), that navigated from Usoga to Uganda. Engraving. ...
EditorialValley of Mont-Cenis, its lake its hospice and mountains that dominate it, Landscape near Mont Cenis, copperplate engraving, title page (vol. 3), before p. II, 1779, Horace-B?n?dict de Saussure, Voyages dans les Alpes, pr?c?d?s d'un essai sur l'histoir...
EditorialNegative - Tallangatta, Victoria, 1917, Weatherboard building with 'BANK OF AUSTRALASIA' written across top section above the doorway and windows. The bank has a semi-flat angular roof. Two large windows with wooden shutters dominate the facade and a d...
EditorialAphodius, Print, Aphodius is a genus of beetles in the Scarabaeidae family. In most species both the adults and larvae are coprophagous (dung feeding) although some species have herbivorous or saprophagous larvae. Aphodius species typically dominate du...
EditorialWilliam Tell. A folk hero of Switzerland. The legend goes as follows: William Tell, who originally came from Bürglen, was known as a strong man, mountain climber, and an expert shot with the crossbow. In his time, the Habsburg emperors of Austria were...
EditorialA map of Chiddingfold. A turnpike road, coloured ochre yellow, forms a boundary from Hascombe at the top right of the map to 'Aldfold' at the bottom. Common land and dense woodland dominate the region to the left around Hindhead Valley and the Devil's ...
EditorialRelief depicting a dog and a wild boar facing each other. It illustrates the citation of the Cynics, disciples of Diogenes. "As a small dog hinders a boar, the weaker can dominate the stronger." Stone. 2nd century. Found in Albertus street, Cologne, Ge...
EditorialLandscape with mountains, Japan, Muromachi period, 16th century. Set in a mountainous landscape is a building in the Chinese style rising above three other roofs. Two tall pine trees dominate the foreground. The square seal, reading 'Kantei', has been ...
EditorialRelief depicting a dog and a wild boar facing each other. It illustrates the citation of the Cynics, disciples of Diogenes. "As a small dog hinders a boar, the weaker can dominate the stronger." Stone. 2nd century. Found in Albertus street, Cologne, Ge...
EditorialJar, Northern Qi dynasty (550?577), late 6th century, China, Earthenware with relief decoration under an olive green glaze, H. 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm); Diam. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm); Diam. of rim 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); Diam. of foot 6 in. (15.2 cm), Ceramics, F...
EditorialChest, 1663?80, Made in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States, American, White oak, red oak, 29 3/4 x 49 1/8 x 21 3/8 in. (75.6 x 124.8 x 54.3 cm), Furniture, Possibly William Searle (died 1667), Thomas Dennis (1638?1706), The richest and most vigorous...
Editorial?????, Fujiwara no Kamatari as a Shinto Deity, Nanbokucho period (1336?92), after 1350, Japan, Hanging scroll; color on silk, Image: 34 x 15 in. (86.4 x 38.1 cm), Paintings, Fujiwara no Kamatari (614?699) is one of several historical figures deified in...
EditorialNocturne, 1879?80, Etching and drypoint; sixth state of nine (Glasgow); printed in black ink on heavy cream Japan, Plate: 8 ? 11 5/8 in. (20.3 ? 29.6 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834?1903 London), Tone and atmos...
EditorialJar with Basket of Auspicious Flowers, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), Qianlong period (1736?95), 18th century, China, Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. 24 in. (61 cm), Ceramics, In some of the porcelain on v...
EditorialLandscape with mountains, Japan, Muromachi period, 16th century. Set in a mountainous landscape is a building in the Chinese style rising above three other roofs. Two tall pine trees dominate the foreground. The square seal, reading 'Kantei', has been ...