EditorialCrest of Henry, Prince of Wales. Emblem with sun design. Coryats Crudities; Hastily gobled vp in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia com?only called the Grisons country, Heluetia alia?s Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and t...
EditorialMeat, soups and stews. The Ni'matnama-i Nasir al-Din Shah. A manuscript o. 1495 - 1505. Meat, soups and stews being prepared for the Sultan Ghiyath al-Din. Soup and 'las' being cooked. The small inscription is 'taghd?iya,' food, nourishment). Ghiyath S...
EditorialCoryats Crudities. Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled vp in five Moneth. Printed by W. S. [William Stansby]: London, 1611. Title page containing a portrait of the author, Thomas Coryate. Image taken from Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled vp in five Monet...
EditorialA delineation of the Amphitheater of Verona expressed in that forme wherein it flourished in the tyme of the Roman Monarchie, only the greatest part of the outward wall which inclosed it round about is omitted.”. Coryats Crudities; Hastily gobled vp ...
EditorialA Sciographie or Modell of that stupendious vessell which is at this day shewed in the Palace / of the Count Palatine of Rhene in the citie of Heidelberg. The Heidelberg Tun; a huge wine barrel with small figures standing around it. . Coryats Cruditie...
EditorialSignor Tomaso Odcombiano. Margarita Emiliana 'bella cortesana di Venetia'. Thomas Coryate greeting a famous Venetian courtesan, Margarita Emiliana. Coryats Crudities; Hastily gobled vp in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia com?only ...
EditorialThe rest on the flight into Egypt, between ca. 1520 and 1700. Campi, Antonio, 1522 or 1523-1587 , artist, chiaroscuro woodcut, Print shows Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus taking nourishment from a tree, assisted by several angels, on their journey to ...
EditorialLa nurriture de Jupiter-Jupiter's nourishment, 1636-37. according to Greek myth, Jupiter grew up among the nymphs of Mount Ida and was nursed by a goat. Canvas, 96,2 x 119,6 cm.