EditorialTitle page for F. Aguilon, Opticorum libri sex, 1613 Opticorvm libri sex (title on object), The Latin title of the book is central to a rectangular frame. Above the frame the personification of Optics. Next to her a peacock and an eagle. The statues of...
EditorialFan sheet of parchment (?) With tempera on the front with a 'Floralia' with Vestal virgins and on the back a medallion with two playing, naked children and a poem between two cornucopias, birds and butterflies, Fan sheet of parchment (?) On which both ...
EditorialThe Annunciation. A border of flowers, fruit, birds, insects, &c., in perspective on a pale gold ground. An inscription (in Anne Boleyns hand) is at the foot of the folio, 'Be daly prove you shalle me fynde to be to you bothe lovynge and kynde', with...
EditorialBirds eye view of China. Todo ichiranzu (view of China). Japan, 1840. Perspective map of China by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). Image taken from Todo ichiranzu (view of China). Originally published/produced in Japan, 1840. . Source: Maps.188.v...
EditorialThe Annunciation. A border of flowers, fruit, birds, insects, &c., in perspective on a pale gold ground. An inscription (in Anne Boleyns hand) is at the foot of the folio, 'Be daly prove you shalle me fynde to be to you bothe lovynge and kynde', with...