EditorialNetherlands. Maastricht. Basilica of Our Lady (Basiliek van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw). Romanesque style church. View of Entrace Merode Chapel and westwork. A 13th-century Gothic portal, rebuilt in the 15th century, provides access to the church as well as to t...
EditorialHercules armed, The history of Hercules (series title), In a round temple stands on a tiled floor in the middle front a column with a statue of a god a knight assisted by two squires. The inscription on the skirt is in its mail chain: HERCULES. Hercule...
EditorialPair of Bellows with the Flight into Egypt, Consists of a front and back leaf, both half round at the top with a protrusion as a handle and taper down into a copper blowpipe. On the cover page the Flight to Egypt above a profiled console, against which...
EditorialUnited States Ironclad Chickasaw, American armored vessel Chickasaw on a river. The ship contains two revolving turrets, one command tower, a chimney and four sloops. The ship was built to James Buchanan Eads' design. Handwritten inscriptions under pho...
EditorialHalf Model or an Ironclad Ram Ship, Stack Model and Half Model (starboard) of a ram tower ship. It has a ram's bow, crutch fence, rudder with rounded rudder blade, a propeller shaft of a few screws: the propeller is missing. There are two gun turrets a...
Editorial(First section) A medallion, partly damaged but containing some drawing in the lower half, atop a blank panel. - a monk-like figure reclining on a grassy platform, clothed in a white hooded robe, with his left eye closed; an angel standing at his feet,...
EditorialNetherlands. Maastricht. Basilica of Our Lady (Basiliek van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw). Romanesque style church. View of Entrace Merode Chapel and westwork. A 13th-century Gothic portal, rebuilt in the 15th century, provides access to the church as well as to t...
EditorialSufis are dancing and collapsing before six shaikhs who sit in a semi-circle on a floral carpet, each dressed in a jama beneath a Persian style coat with long sleeves. The structure of a palace or shrine behind them has decorated alcoves and gold turre...
EditorialA large red and white rose, with four other smaller roses in profile. - the upper branches of an apple tree, from which is suspended a Christ-like figure (labels either side, 'Lingnam sapientiae' (sic) and 'Lignum vite'); from the trunk of the tree, a...
Editorial(First section) A medallion, partly damaged but containing some drawing in the lower half, atop a blank panel. - a monk-like figure reclining on a grassy platform, clothed in a white hooded robe, with his left eye closed; an angel standing at his feet,...
EditorialDesign for a building at Eythrope House in Buckinghamshire. A plan and elevation for a two storey Gothic building; an ogee arch at the centre; towers with turrets on either side. Drawn on a scale of 6 1/2 feet to an inch. Two Designs for a Gateway for...
EditorialDesign for a building at Eythrope House in Buckinghamshire. A plan and elevation for a two storey Gothic building; an ogee arch at the centre; towers with turrets on either side. . Two Designs for a Gateway for Sir Wm. Stanhope at Twickenham, 1751. Dr...
EditorialSufis are dancing and collapsing before six shaikhs who sit in a semi-circle on a floral carpet, each dressed in a jama beneath a Persian style coat with long sleeves. The structure of a palace or shrine behind them has decorated alcoves and gold turre...
EditorialThe base of the tree stands in a heptagonal battlemented enclosure filled with water, its trunk supporting a grapevine held at the bottom by a naked man and woman; alchemists stand in the seven turrets, each holding a flask with the word 'imbibing' ins...
EditorialA medieval gatehouse, called Rye House; turrets at its top; water in front; trees to the left. Rye House Castle Essex. c. 1790-1810. Source: Maps K.Top.15.81.b.
EditorialA naked, dragon-tailed woman hanging from the branches and caressing a naked man sat on the trunk of the tree; they are surrounded on either side by five gold feathers (to the left) or five silver feathers (to the right), each labelled ('spiritus', 'an...
EditorialPyx in the Form of a Dove. Dated: c. 1220/1230. Dimensions: overall: 18.2 x 22.6 x 19.1 cm (7 3/16 x 8 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.) overall (height of turrets): 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.) overall (diameter of base): 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.) overall (diameter of disk): 8.2 c...
EditorialNetherlands. Maastricht. Basilica of Our Lady (Basiliek van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw). Romanesque style church. View of Entrace Merode Chapel and westwork. A 13th-century Gothic portal, rebuilt in the 15th century, provides access to the church as well as to t...
EditorialPyx in the Form of a Dove. Dated: c. 1220/1230. Dimensions: overall: 18.2 x 22.6 x 19.1 cm (7 3/16 x 8 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.) overall (height of turrets): 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.) overall (diameter of base): 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.) overall (diameter of disk): 8.2 c...
EditorialSyria. Talkalakh District, Krak des Chevaliers. Crusader castle, under control of Knights Hospitaller (1142-1271) during the Crusades to the Holy Land, fell into Arab control in the 13th century. View of one of the turrets. Photo taken before the Syri...
EditorialGlass beaker with victorious charioteer, Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; blown and cut, H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm), Glass, Colorless with olive green tinge., Vertical, uneven rim; body tapering downwards with slight co...