EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Eighth night: The prince?s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; overall: 20 x 14.4 cm...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Seventh night: The daughter of the king of the jinns bows before the King of Kings who has just undergone the ordeal of passing through boiling oil to emerge as a youth, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 1...
EditorialWanted a Curate. Rather an Ordeal for the Reverend M. Green, 1865. George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (British, 1834-1896). Wood engraving.
EditorialCalabar bean or ordeal bean, Physostigma venenosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialThe fire-ordeal of Siyavush. Shahnama. India, 1437. The fire ordeal of Siyavush watched by Kay Ka'us and Sudaba. A miniature painting from a fifteenth century manuscript of the epic poem of Shahnama. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally published/pr...
EditorialThe fire-ordeal of Siyavush. Shahnama. Iran, 1446. The fire-ordeal of Siyavush watched by Kay Ka'us and Sudaba. A miniature painting from a fifteenth century manuscript of the epic poem of Shahnama. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally published/pro...
EditorialThe fire ordeal of Siyavush. Siyavush proves his innocence by passing unharmed through a fire. Siyavush was one of the legendary Persian heroes of the Shahnama. According to Firdawsi's poem, the prince was forced to pass through a mountain of fire to p...
EditorialThe fire-ordeal of Siyavush. Shahnama. India, 1437. The fire ordeal of Siyavush watched by Kay Ka'us and Sudaba. A miniature painting from a fifteenth century manuscript of the epic poem of Shahnama. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally published/pr...
EditorialThe fire-ordeal of Siyawush. Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 63 miniatures. 1604. The fire-ordeal of Siyawush. The palace with Sudaba and Kay Ka'us at the windows is not shown. 15.5 by 15.5 cm. Opaque watercolour. Safavid/Isfahan style. Image taken from Sh...
EditorialNegro superstition. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch. R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?]. The text states '...a kind of ordeal in use among the Negroes, for extorting a confession of guilt from persons suspected of theft or other crim...
EditorialThe fire-ordeal of Siyavush. Shahnama. Iran, 1446. The fire-ordeal of Siyavush watched by Kay Ka'us and Sudaba. A miniature painting from a fifteenth century manuscript of the epic poem of Shahnama. Image taken from Shahnama. Originally published/pro...
EditorialFire ordeal of Siyawush. Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 24 miniatures. 1600. The fire ordeal of Siyawush.10 by 15 cm. Opaque watercolour. Bukhara style. Image taken from Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 24 miniatures. Originally published/produced in 1600. . S...
EditorialThe fire ordeal of Siyavush. Siyavush proves his innocence by passing unharmed through a fire. Siyavush was one of the legendary Persian heroes of the Shahnama. According to Firdawsi's poem, the prince was forced to pass through a mountain of fire to p...
EditorialCalabar bean or ordeal bean, Physostigma venenosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialCalabar bean or ordeal bean, Physostigma venenosum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialCalabar bean or ordeal bean, Physostigma venenosum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialA DRIVE THROUGH A SNOWSTORM IN THE FAMINE-STRICKEN DISTRICTS OF RUSSIA; We were nearly at the end of this ordeal of ice when the near-side horse fell, and in a second there was nothing to be seen but legs and tails and bits of harness flying about; whi...
EditorialThe fire ordeal of Siyavush. Siyavush proves his innocence by passing unharmed through a fire. Siyavush was one of the legendary Persian heroes of the Shahnama. According to Firdawsi's poem, the prince was forced to pass through a mountain of fire to p...
EditorialFragment of a poliptych of originally five panels: Annunciation, Drinking the " Bitter Water" (an ordeal over Mary's virginity) and the Flight to Egypt. From the Eastern Mediterranean, second half 6th Polychrome ivory, OA 11149.
EditorialKing Mark sentences Isolde to the ordeal by fire. As the bishop holds the red-hot iron, a beggar, Tristram in dis-guise, helps Isolde from the boat. Denying that she has ever been in the arms of another man but this beggar's, Isolde avoids lying and is...