EditorialDecember: a butcher flaying a pig, with a boy inflating a bladder. Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici'). Italy, Central (Florence); 1500-1510. Source: Yates Thompson 30, f.12. Language: Latin.
EditorialDecember: a butcher flaying a pig, with a boy inflating a bladder. Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici'). Italy, Central (Florence); 1500-1510. Source: Yates Thompson 30, f.12. Language: Latin.
EditorialThe Toilet of a Modern Belle: Inflating a Lady, July 1829, Hand-colored etching, sheet: 9 15/16 x 13 11/16 in. (25.3 x 34.7 cm), Prints, William Heath ('Paul Pry') (British, London 1795?1840 Hampstead).
EditorialEuropean tree frog, Hyla arborea (tree frog, Rana arborea). Shown hanging from a rose bush, male inflating its throat, adhesive abdomen, tadpole and frogspawn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his Ge...
EditorialMedieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialTHE ATTEMPTED BALLOON VOYAGE ACROSS THE CHANNEL: 1. Inflating the Balloon; 2. The Start from Canterbury; 3. Passing over Folkestone; 4. The Car and its Lifebuoy.