EditorialFragment, 9th?10th century, Attributed to Egypt, Fayum, Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave, H. 23 3/4 in. (60.3 cm), Textiles-Woven, This fragment (top) and (bottom), two ends of a shawl, are both decorated with two inscription bands?one a line o...
EditorialGallic Wars (58 BC-50 BC). Titus Labienus hatches a trap to get the Treveri to cross the river before his troops, attacking them later. Engraving. "Commentaires de Cesar, avec des notes historiques, critiques et militaires", by Count Turpin de Criss?. ...
EditorialIgor Timer-Bulatov heads back to Ukraine on Sunday after evacuating his daughter and grandson to Moldova, March 6, 2022. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
Editorialsampler, Anonymous, 1802, silk, linen, cross stitch, General: 49 x 50,5cm 490 x 505mm, sampler on loosely woven linen embroidered with silk thread. At the top, on the vertical center axis, a crowned coat of arms with the letters SHB and IP AB. Below it...
EditorialModel of a Gunboat, Testified block model of a two-mast flat-bottomed gunboat, incomplete. The model has a cannon on a rotating carriage on the front parade, a carronade on a rotating carriage on the rear parade and four turning axes on the sides. The ...
EditorialModel of an 18-Gun Cutter, witnessed and polychromed model of an over-built cutter. Thirteen of the eighteen pieces have been preserved. The ship has a slightly curved prow and sharp bow foundation, small flat mirror, large hollow wulf painted with dra...
EditorialLetter bag in rectangular model of red leather embroidered with silver and gold thread, the name 'Jean Abraham Grill', 'Constantinople', '1754' embroidered, Letter bag in rectangular envelope model of red leather of which the the front, the flap and th...
EditorialOval dress from bobbin lace with shaded medallions, Dress from natural-colored bobbin lace: duchesse lace. Oval model with symmetrical pattern. There are two edges with s-ribbons and 'buttercups' within flat oval frames on a braided soil. In the middle...
EditorialModel of a Gunboat, Testified block model of a two-mast flat-bottomed gunboat, incomplete. The model has a cannon on a rotating carriage on the front parade, a carronade on a rotating carriage on the rear parade and four turning axes on the sides. The ...
EditorialModel of the merchantman De Witte Oliphant Model of the merchantman De Witte Oliphant Model of the merchantman The Witte Oliphant Model of a Merchantman, Polychrome and rigged truss model. 22 gun ports spread over two decks, all guns missing. Three lev...
EditorialModel of Composite Ship Camels Bearing on a Ship under Construction, Polychromed model of a ship on ship's camels. The ship model is a block model of a ship under construction, the superstructure is unfinished. The ship has twenty-six gates on a deck, ...
EditorialModel of an 18-Gun Cutter, witnessed and polychromed model of an over-built cutter. Thirteen of the eighteen pieces have been preserved. The ship has a slightly curved prow and sharp bow foundation, small flat mirror, large hollow wulf painted with dra...
EditorialModel of a Stallion, Testified hollowed-out block model of a single-masted flat bottom, incomplete. The model has a deck and a cabin, the roof of which can be removed. The cabin is fully fired on the inside and has a roof and a pyramid-shaped deck ligh...
EditorialHalf Model of a Cutter, Mold Model (starboard) of a one-master. The skin above the bar wood is closed. Closed deck, detailed with an oven on the fore ship, further hatches, a ship's pump, a cuckoo and a roef. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no fence detai...
EditorialModel of Riding Bitts and Stoppers for a Chain Cable, Model of a part of two decks with anchor bet and two hatches on the upper deck. The rear hatch serves as a cable hole. The port side of the model is designed for anchor chain, the beading covered wi...
EditorialFragment, 9th?10th century, Attributed to Egypt, Fayum, Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave, H. 23 3/4 in. (60.3 cm), Textiles-Woven, This fragment (top) and (bottom), two ends of a shawl, are both decorated with two inscription bands?one a line o...
EditorialAkrura Informs Nanda and Yashoda: Page From a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu), ca. 1630?50, India (Rajasthan, Mewar), Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, 6 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (16.5 x 33.7 cm), Paintings, The evil king Kamsa, K...