EditorialMemorabilia from Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars to go under hammer at huge Hollywood auction
EditorialVintage Porsche 356A transformed into a snowmobile with tank-like tracks and skis for rally across Antarctica in campaign to end child trafficking
EditorialJapanese Grosbeak and Marvel of Peru (Ikaru, oshiroi no hana), from an untitled series of flowers and birds. Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 7 in. Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialJapanese Grosbeak and Marvel of Peru (Ikaru, oshiroi no hana), from an untitled series of flowers and birds. Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 7 in. Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialLa Belle de nuit. Marvel of Peru, Mirabilis jalapa. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans ceux de...
EditorialA lightning change. Nicholas, the Muscovite marvel. 'Dead frost that war turn. I'll give 'em the Hague business again. Hurry up with the dove and olive branch!' . Punch, or the London Charivari. London, 1905. Source: P.P.5270 volume 128, page 237. Lang...
EditorialPerfume bottle in the shape of a hes-vase inlaid with the figure of a princess, New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, ca. 1353?1336 B.C., From Egypt; Possibly from Upper Egypt, Thebes, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), carnelian, obsidian,gold, and co...
EditorialLa Belle de nuit. Marvel of Peru, Mirabilis jalapa. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans ceux de...
EditorialDrinker moth, Euthrix potatoria, brown hair streak, Thecla betulae, large skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus, small skipper, Thymelicus sylvestris, scarce marvel du jour, Dipthera runica, and barred umber, Plagodis pulveraria. Handcoloured lithograph after an ...
EditorialOshiroibana or marvel of Peru, Mirabilis jalapa. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialMarvel of Peru flower fairy, Mirabilis jalapa, wearing flower hat and dress of leaves and petals, attended by a moth. Belle-de-nuit. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs A...
EditorialFlower fairies: a sleeping olive in cotton bonnet, the marvel of Peru, everlasting with crown and snake headdress, myrtle as an old rogue, tobacco smoking a cigar and laurel as an old musketeer. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an ill...