EditorialWillem Joseph, Baron van Brienen, raining fifty years of the Roman Catholic orphanage in Amsterdam, Silver Medal Front: inscription. Reverse: inscription, Amsterdam, Willem Joseph baron van Brienen of the Groote Lindt, anonymous, Netherlands, 1836, sil...
EditorialCountry Amusement. "- Monsieur did not want to wait for his nephew; and Madame thought it might soon start raining, but he didn't really bother. - What an old miser! - Don't you worry, Mother Poirier, he'll pay dearly for that... more than the market p...
EditorialA tower furnace enclosing two conjoined flasks that separate 'spiritus' (above) from 'anima' and 'corpus' (below); Latin verses on either side. - verse in English, in one stanza; beneath, a banded circle containing the signs of the zodiac, enclosing a...
EditorialIt's Raining Elves ('Llueven duendes'), 1807?45, Pen and dark brown ink, reinforced with brush and dark brown ink on off-white paper. Composition outlined with pen and dark brown ink on all sides, 6-15/16 x 5 in. (17.6 x 12.7 cm), Drawings, Leonardo Al...
EditorialFirst bas-relief of a 12th century sarcophagus: the dream of a knight sleeping on a bed with wheels and bells under a castle battlement with queen and ladies, lances raining down from a cloud. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after A. Monti...