EditorialFire screen of linen, stretched over a scalloped, wooden (?) Frame, embroidered on the front with multicolored wool and printed on the back with a roaring lion, ?cran or parafeu. The irregularly scalloped screen is embroidered on the front with multico...
EditorialLions roar for violence;, Parallel title: After the robbery roaring young lions, Signed: J. A. Fridrich sculps, copperplate, plate DLXIV, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Fridrich, Jacob Andreas (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Aug...
EditorialFigures in a storm, Two adults and two children are huddled under a fallen tree. In the distance a chimney of a house is blowing on the right and a sailing ship is buried on the left under high waves. A dog whines in the foreground. Print top left: XV....
EditorialDish, multicolored painted with a Kakiemon decor, Round dish of painted porcelain. The bowl has a small mirror and a ribbed edge. The bowl is painted with a roaring lion on the left and hedges with bamboo and prunus on the right. The scale is marked., ...
EditorialPassport card from the south coast of Cuba and Jamaica Passport card from the south coast of Cuba (title on object), Passport card from the south coast of Cuba, with Jamaica and two inset cards from bays in Jamaica. With two compass roses, the North is...
EditorialDish, multicolored painted with a Kakiemon decor, Round dish of painted porcelain. The bowl has a small mirror and a ribbed edge. The bowl is painted with a roaring lion on the left and hedges with bamboo and prunus on the right. The scale is marked., ...
EditorialCup of the Court of Justice of Voorne and Putten, Cup with lid. The cup rests on a base with a flat, protruding edge with a whimsical contour. The base has four fields surrounded by foaming water. The body of a fish is applied to each field. The tail o...
EditorialVessel (ink well) carried by a lion, Barrel (inkwell) of stoneware on a heart-shaped base with a band of leaves. The spherical barrel with pressed zigzag lines (knibis) is carried by a roaring lion. Westerwald, beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion, ...
EditorialVessel (sand vessel) carried by a lion, Barrel (sand vessel) of stoneware on a heart-shaped base with a band of leaves. The shallow barrel with oblique, incised lines is carried by a roaring lion. Westerwald, beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion, an...
EditorialThe Roaring River. Six Views in the Island of Jamaica, by L. Belanger. 1800. View of the bridge across the Roaring River near Bath, Jamaica. Image taken from Six Views in the Island of Jamaica, by L. Belanger; engraved by Merigot. Originally publishe...
EditorialMiniature of attendants helping a seated man to dress before a roaring fire, from a calendar page for February. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.72v. Lang...
EditorialPortrait of the Jolly Dog who had spent a roaring Christmas; and, coming home late, imprundently swung by his latch-key before turned it in the lock.' 'This is a Tootleumist, whose heart's idol lived in Pimilico, and he went and serenaded in the wrong ...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a large green winged dragon, roaring and facing right. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours'). England, S. E.? (London?); 2nd quarter of the 14th century. Source: Yates Thompson 13, f.186v. Language: Latin and French.
EditorialWoodcut portraits of Alderman Abel and M. Kilvert. The Copie of a Letter sent from the Roaring Boyes in Elizium; to ... Alderman Abel and M. Kilvert, the two great projectors for wine, etc. [London,] 1641. Source: E.156.(8), title page. Language: English.
EditorialIllustrated title page showing the character 'Moll Cutpurse'. The Roaring Girle Or Moll Cut-Purse As it hath lately beene acted on the Fortune-stage by the Prince his Players [In prose and verse] Written by T Middleton and T Dekkar. London : Thomas Arc...
EditorialTitle page with woodcut, depicting Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse". . The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-Purse. As it hath lately beene acted on the Fortune-stage by the Prince his Players. [In prose and verse.] Written by T. Middleton and T. Dekkar....
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a large green winged dragon, roaring and facing left. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours'). England, S. E.? (London?); 2nd quarter of the 14th century. Source: Yates Thompson 13, f.187. Language: Latin and French.
EditorialThe Roaring River. Six Views in the Island of Jamaica, by L. Belanger. 1800. View of the bridge across the Roaring River near Bath, Jamaica. Image taken from Six Views in the Island of Jamaica, by L. Belanger; engraved by Merigot. Originally publishe...
EditorialTwo men at a barrel-table in vaulted room. A satirical pamphlet of 1641. An illustration of two men in a tavern. Roaring boys. . The Sucklington faction, or (Sucklings) roaring Boyes. [A satire.]. [London,] 1641. The Sucklington faction, or (Sucklings)...
EditorialHead of a roaring lion. Detail from the Procession Avenue leading to the Ishtar gate, built by King Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 BCE). Glazed tiles.
EditorialMultnomah Falls Cascade, Columbia River, 1867, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 52.4 x 40 cm (20 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829?1916), In 1867, Watkins made a four-month trip to Oregon and the Columb...
EditorialThe Four Accomplishments, ???????, Muromachi period (1392?1573), mid-16th century, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper, Image (each screen): 67 x 150 in. (170.2 x 381 cm), Screens, Kano Motonobu (Japan, ca. 1476?1559), With...
EditorialFurniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 3 3/4 x W. 3 x D. 2 3/4in. (9.5 x 7.6 x 6.9cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, This fragmenta...
EditorialRoaring Brook?Adirondack Mountains, 1868, Graphite and white gouache on tan paper, 16 7/8 x 12 3/4 in. (42.9 x 32.4 cm), Drawings, George Henry Smillie (American, New York 1840?1920 New York).
EditorialHead of a roaring lion. Detail from the Procession Avenue leading to the Ishtar gate, built by King Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 BCE). Glazed tiles.