EditorialLaniarius icterus, Print, Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the f...
EditorialDromaius ater, Print, The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus Dromaiu...
EditorialLaniarius boulboul, Print, Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the ...
EditorialDromaius ater, Print, The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus Dromaiu...
EditorialLaniarius hypopyrrhus, Print, Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in t...
EditorialLaniarius cubla, Print, Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the fam...
EditorialPrionops poliocephalus, Print, Helmetshrike, Helmetshrikes are a family uniting some smallish to mid-sized songbird species. They were included with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, later on split between several presumably closely related grou...
EditorialIbidorhyncha struthersii, Print, The ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii) is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Ibidorhynchidae. It is grey with a white belly, red legs and long down-curved bill, and a bla...
EditorialA plan of the City of Westminster. In this plan, Tottenham Court and Marylebone are mostly fields but Westminster has grown sufficiently to demand the construction of a new bridge. . A new and accurate plan of the city of Westminster the dutchy of Lanc...
EditorialInterior of a Boiling-House. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch. R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?]. The juice of the cane is conveyed in pipes from the mill to the boiling house, where it is converted into sugar. Here it is passed thro...
EditorialCount Francesco Zambeccari, Sir Edward Vernon and Miss Grice in a hot air balloon at Tottenham Court Road, on March 23rd 1785. A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspape. 1780?-1810?. Count Zambeccari's balloon. Which was to have taken up himse...
EditorialDisk Brooch, 2nd?3rd century, Made in Gaul (France), Roman, Millefiore enamel, bronze, Overall: 1 3/4 x 1/2 in. (4.4 x 1.2 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk brooches and ve...
EditorialDisk Brooch, 100?300, Roman, Champlev? enamel, bronze, Overall: 1 13/16 x 13/16 in. (4.6 x 2 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk brooches and vessels. In this technique, the ...
EditorialDisk Brooch, 2nd?3rd century, Made in Gaul (France), Roman, Millefiore enamel, bronze, Overall: 1 3/4 x 1/2 in. (4.4 x 1.2 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk brooches and ve...
EditorialFlagon, late 15th century, Made in Luneburg, Germany, German, Pewter, Overall: 11 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 5 1/8 in. (29.5 x 14.5 x 13 cm), Metalwork-Pewter, Although by the late fifteenth century, pewter vessels had come into sufficiently common usage as to be...
EditorialDisk Brooch, 100?300, Roman, Champlev? enamel, bronze, Overall: 1 13/16 x 13/16 in. (4.6 x 2 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk brooches and vessels. In this technique, the ...
EditorialDisk Brooch, 100?300, Made in Probably Gaul, Roman, Copper alloy, millefiori enamel, Overall: 3 1/8 x 2 13/16 x 7/8 in. (7.9 x 7.2 x 2.2 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk b...
EditorialVase with Handles, second half 14th century, Attributed to Syria, Glass, colorless with brown tinge; blown, folded foot, applied handles, enameled and gilded, H. 15 1/16 in. (38.3 cm), Glass, In the early phase of enameling, glassmakers left the unders...
Editorial'Rustam Pained Before Kai Kavus', Folio 146r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1525?30, Made in Iran, Tabriz, Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper, Painting: H. 11 3/16 x W. 7 9/16 in. (H. 28.4 x W. 19.2 cm), Codices, ...