EditorialDeath of Magdalena van Leeuwen, housewife of Carel van der Heijden, silver oval medal. Front: above a wreathed skull, a winged hourglass and two scythes with different inscriptions. Reverse: inscription on a hanging canvas under a laurel wreath, Magdal...
EditorialDeath of Josias Krijger, lieutenant of the schout-by-night of Brakel, Oval silver medal. Front: skull with laurel wreath, winged hourglass and scythes above inscription. Reverse: skeleton with scythe and torch above shield with inscription flanked by t...
EditorialVignette with the personification of Death Death (title on object) Virtues and vices (series title), Vignette with the image of the personified Death. Death is a partially dressed skeleton with a staff in his right and a sickle in his left. His skull i...
EditorialTea chest Tea caddy, Rectangular silver tea caddy, decorated with an engraved agricultural trophy with a basket of flowers, a basket with vegetables, a rake, a shovel, a pickaxe, two scythes bag and flowers, ornaments, art, Pieter Adolf Brun?, Amsterda...
EditorialDeath of Father Hubertus van Schooten in Amsterdam, Silver oval medal. Front: skull with laurel wreath, winged hourglass and scythes above star in cartouche, formed by two little angels and a lying woman. Reverse: skeleton with scythe and torch above s...
EditorialNeighborhood of the Visscherdijk in The Hague, funeral medal with no. 6 made from death medal, Brass oval medal. Obverse: lauded skull on two crossed bones above cartouche with inscription, hourglass winged above and two scythes, why ribbon with inscri...
EditorialA triumphal carriage decorated with fruit and flowers from the harvest accompanied by female reapers (Schnitterinnen) holding scythes. A woman with a bushel of wheat sits on a throne. Part of the celebration of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemb...
EditorialCalendar page for August. Six men with harvesting; five with scythes, one with a pitchfork. At foot, Leo in a roundel. Anglo-Saxon Calendar. England [Winchester?]; second quarter of 11th cent. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f.6v. Language: Latin.
EditorialCalendar page for August. Six men harvesting; five with scythes, and one with pitchfork. Anglo-Saxon Calendar. England [Winchester?]; second quarter of 11th cent. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f.6v. Language: Latin.
EditorialEmblematical miniature of two metalworkers, suggesting that each person acts in his own way, and according to his own rules. One man verifies that his arrows are perfectly straight, while the other takes care to forge his scythes with a proper curve. T...
EditorialWootton Bridge, on the north coast of the Isle of Wight. Workers with their scythes. Twelve Views in the Isle of Wight, by S. Barth and I. King. 1813. Source: Maps.K.Top.15.16.L.
EditorialCalendar page for August. Six men with harvesting; five with scythes, one with a pitchfork. At foot, Leo in a roundel. Anglo-Saxon Calendar. England [Winchester?]; second quarter of 11th cent. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f.6v. Language: Latin.
EditorialCalendar page for August. Six men harvesting; five with scythes, and one with pitchfork. Anglo-Saxon Calendar. England [Winchester?]; second quarter of 11th cent. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f.6v. Language: Latin.
EditorialThe pantheon of all the skeletons who are eating and drinking in a cemetery (Posada); flanked by skeletons holding scythes (Manilla), Jos? Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851?1913), Manuel Manilla (Mexican, Mexico City ca. 1830?1895 Mexico City), 1905.
EditorialThe grand skeleton mole, skeletons eating mole and drinking in a cemetery (Posada); flanked by skeletons holding scythes (Manilla), Jos? Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851?1913), Manuel Manilla (Mexican, Mexico City ca. 1830?1895 Mexico City), 1902.
EditorialA triumphal carriage decorated with fruit and flowers from the harvest accompanied by female reapers (Schnitterinnen) holding scythes. A woman with a bushel of wheat sits on a throne. Part of the celebration of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemb...
EditorialThomiris, Reine des Scythes, fait plonger la tete de Cyrus dans un vase rempli de sang-Thomiris, Queen of the Scyths, orders the head of Cyrus lowered into a vessel of blood. Canvas, 263 x 199 cm INV.1768.