EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; white-ground, H.: 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm), Vases, Nike bearing a fillet. The good condition of the vase shows the rather dense quality of the added color and especiall...
EditorialLoligo piscatorum, Print, Illex illecebrosus, commonly known as the northern shortfin squid, is a species of neritic squids in the family Ommastrephidae. They are found in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, from off the coast of eastern North America to Gre...
EditorialKnight of the short-lived Order of the Knot (Noeud), an order of chivalry founded in 1352 by Louis of Taranto, King of Naples. He wears a brown tabard, steel helm, suit of armour, gauntlets and spurs. The helm and edges of the shield are decorated with...
EditorialEgyptian President Gamal Abd el Nasser on an 18-day state-visit in Moscow, May 1958. As President of the short-lived United Arab Republic, he was given a hero's welcome by Moscovites and Prime Minister Khrushtchev. Nasser addressing students in Moscow ...
EditorialLe Duc d'Orléans. Les Rois contemporains. Biographies des souverains. Bruxelles, 1849. Ferdinand, duc d'Orléans, (1810-1842), was the eldest son and heir of King Louis-Philippe. He was a successful military leader, and popular with the public because...
EditorialWritten in the late 1620s, Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes was a pioneering four-volume treatise on English common law. While the first volume was published in 1628, the final three volumes appeared only posthumously, because the manuscripts in question...
EditorialShaped Tiles in the 'Cuerda Seca' Technique, late 14th century, Attributed to Turkey, Konya, Stonepaste; polychrome glaze within black wax resist outlines (cuerda seca technique), Tile a: H. 18 13/16 in. (47.8 cm), Ceramics-Tiles, A brilliant but short...
EditorialDish, ca. 1755, British, Longton Hall, Staffordshire, Soft-paste porcelain, Overall, irregular diameter (confirmed): 1 3/8 ? 8 1/4 ? 8 1/4 in. (3.5 ? 21 ? 21 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, Many of the products of the short lived Longton Hall factory (1749?60...
EditorialValley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain), 1909, Oil on canvas, 29 x 35 1/2 in. (73.7 x 90.2 cm), Paintings, Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) (French, Douai 1856?1910 Saint-Clair), Henri-Edmond Cross was a practitioner of the Neoimpressionist ...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; white-ground, H.: 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm), Vases, Nike bearing a fillet. The good condition of the vase shows the rather dense quality of the added color and especiall...
EditorialAustrian Civil War or February Uprising. Four days of skirmishes between socialists and the Austrian Army. 12-16 February, 1934. The building Karl Marx Holf, of Period "Red Vienna" (1918-1934) was a battlefield during the short-lived Austrian civil war...
EditorialKnight of the short-lived Order of the Knot (Noeud), an order of chivalry founded in 1352 by Louis of Taranto, King of Naples. He wears a brown tabard, steel helm, suit of armour, gauntlets and spurs. The helm and edges of the shield are decorated with...
EditorialEgyptian President Gamal Abd el Nasser on an 18-day state-visit in Moscow, May 1958.As President of the short-lived United Arab Republic,he was given a hero's welcome by Moscovites and Prime Minister Khrushtchev. Nasser addressing students in Moscow Un...
EditorialEgyptian President Gamal Abd el Nasser on an 18-day state-visit in Moscow, May 1958. As President of the short-lived United Arab Republic, he was given a hero's welcome by Moscovites and Prime Minister Khrushtchev. Nasser addressing students in Moscow ...
EditorialEgyptian President Gamal Abd el Nasser on an 18-day state-visit in Moscow, May1958.As President of the short-lived United Arab Republic,he was given a hero's welcome by Moscovites and Prime Minister Khrushtchev. Laying a wreath at the tomb of the unkno...
EditorialEgyptian President Gamal Abd el Nasser on an 18-day state-visit in Moscow,May 1958.As President of the short-lived United Arab Republic,he was given a hero's welcome by Moscovites as well as by Prime Minister Nikita Khrushtchev.Walking across Red Squar...
EditorialEgyptian President Gamal Abd el Nasser on an 18-day state-visit in Moscow,May 1958.As President of the short-lived United Arab Republic,he was given a hero's welcome by Moscovites as well as by Prime Minister Nikita Khrushtchev.Walking across Red Squar...
EditorialWest-German elections 1953. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a majority. Josef Wirth, Chancellor of the German Reich in the late Twenties, speaking at a rally of his short-lived Bund der Deutschen.
EditorialRossetti lamenting the death of his wombat, 1869. Dante Gabriel Rossetti loved exotic animals and began to collect them with a passion after the tragic death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal in 1862. He had moved to 16 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, a house with ...