EditorialScylla and Minos, Round, lead plaque. In the middle Minos, the besieger, seated on his horse that jumped to the left, in front of the gate of Niseia, the city that fell into his hands through betrayal of the king's daughter Scylla. She stands on the to...
EditorialScylla and Minos, Round, lead plaque. In the middle Minos, the besieger, seated on his horse that jumped to the left, in front of the gate of Niseia, the city that fell into his hands through betrayal of the king's daughter Scylla. She stands on the to...
EditorialDrinking bowl with Scylla and Minos, Round, gold-plated silver drinking bowl surrounded by a leaf wreath (see above). In the middle Minos, the besieger, seated on his horse that jumps to the left, in front of the gate of Niseia, the city that fell into...
EditorialSperwer (Accipiter nisus). Sperrewerre / Hecipiter levis rubelarius / Creferelle (title on object). Artist: Joseph Antoine van Huerne (mentioned on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place...
EditorialSperwer (Accipiter nisus). Sperrewerre / Hecipiter levis rubelarius / Creferelle (title on object). Artist: Joseph Antoine van Huerne (mentioned on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place...
EditorialScylla and Minos. Metamorphoses. Antoine Vérard: Paris, 1494. (Whole page) Scylla and Minos. Scylla cuts off the head of her father King Nisus of Alcathous, and offers it to King Minos of Crete to make peace between them. Source: IC.41148, LXXXv. Lang...
EditorialMap, chart of a voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus Frigate.
EditorialChart, Map of a voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa to St. Helena, to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus Frigate.
EditorialEurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialEurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, and northern goshawk, Accipiter gentilis. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.