EditorialFolding fan with paper sheet on which 'The Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur', Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'Gouache' Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and e...
EditorialTournament Helm, ca. 1490, possibly British or Flemish, Steel, leather, textile, copper alloy, H. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); D. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm); Wt. 12 lb. 12 oz. (5783 g), Helmets, For the tournament fought on foot in an enclosed...
EditorialThe five plagues of the country'. Above each of the figures is written; I govern the people. I pray for the people. I legislate for the people. I fought for the people. I preserve the peace for all four. And above the devil on the extreme right is; And...
EditorialPageant XXXIV. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick jousting with the Duke before the Emperor Sigismond and the Empress Barbara, seated with the court. The trumpeters blow a fanfare as Richard mortally wounds his opponent in the chest.The Empress shows h...
EditorialA map of Scotland and the islands. A General Map of SCOTLAND and ISLANDS thereto belonging From new Surveys, : the SHIRES properly Divided & Subdivided, the FORTS lately Erected & Roads of Communication or Military Ways carried on by His Majesty's comm...
EditorialTournament Helm, ca. 1490, possibly British or Flemish, Steel, leather, textile, copper alloy, H. 15 3/4 in. (40 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); D. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm); Wt. 12 lb. 12 oz. (5783 g), Helmets, For the tournament fought on foot in an enclosed...
EditorialDedication of the monument on the battlefield of Bull Run, Virginia, 15 July, 1865. . Two battles, that of July 21, 1861, and that of August 29, 1862, were fought between the Confederates and Federals in the plain traversed by the small river called Bu...