EditorialFrench cavalry charging with lance, 12th century. He wears a steel helmet, blue cuirass decorated with gold buttons, blue escutcheon with gold fleurs de lys, lance, gauntlets, cuisses, greaves and spurs. The horse has a crimson velvet saddle and gold c...
EditorialCavalry battle between crusaders and infidels, 12th century. The crusaders wear chainmail coats and pointed helmets with small crosses. One crusader holds a standard (gonfanon or gonfalon). Taken from Montfaucon and from a stained-glass window in Saint...
EditorialCavalry battle between crusaders and infidels, 12th century. The crusaders wear chainmail coats and pointed helmets with small crosses. One crusader holds a standard (gonfanon or gonfalon). Taken from Montfaucon and from a stained-glass window in Saint...
EditorialFrench cavalry charging with lance, 12th century. He wears a steel helmet, blue cuirass decorated with gold buttons, blue escutcheon with gold fleurs de lys, lance, gauntlets, cuisses, greaves and spurs. The horse has a crimson velvet saddle and gold c...
EditorialScene from the Battle of Roosebeke (Rosbecq), Flanders, 1382, between the French and Flemish armies. Knights in suits of armour fight with swords and lances over cannon and the dead and wounded. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a manusc...
EditorialJean Baptiste Raphael Ur Massard, French, 1775-1843, after Anne Louis Girodet de Rouchy Trioson, French, 1767-1824, Hippocrate refuse les presens d'Ataxerces, 1816, Engraving printed in black on wove paper, sheet trimmed within plate mark:.
EditorialJean Baptiste Massard, French, 1740-1822, after Jacques Louis David, French, 1748-1825, Mort de Socrate, between mid-18th and early 19th century, Engraving printed in black ink on wove paper, Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20 3/4 ? 27 5/8 inches (5...
EditorialMusic and dance of the 8th or 9th century. A young girl in tunic and cape dances to music from two female musicians playing a double flute and lyre with plectrum. From a manuscript of the 11th century. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leo...
EditorialFossil skeleton of an Anoplotherium commune, extinct genus of ungulates, Late Eocene to the earliest Oligocene. Engraving by Massard after an illustration by J.G. Pretre from Frederic Cuvier's Universal Dictionary of Natural History, Paris, 1816.
EditorialBonite. (Thynnus vagans). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère de S. E. M. le marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, et publié sous les ...
EditorialLa m?re bienaim?e (The Well-Loved Mother). Dated: 1775. Dimensions: plate: 55.7 x 66.2 cm (21 15/16 x 26 1/16 in.) sheet: 58.6 x 77 cm (23 1/16 x 30 5/16 in.). Medium: engraving with etching on laid paper.
EditorialFossil skeleton of an Anoplotherium commune, extinct genus of ungulates, Late Eocene to the earliest Oligocene. Engraving by Massard after an illustration by J.G. Pretre from Frederic Cuvier's Universal Dictionary of Natural History, Paris, 1816.
EditorialMusic and dance of the 8th or 9th century. A young girl in tunic and cape dances to music from two female musicians playing a double flute and lyre with plectrum. From a manuscript of the 11th century. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leo...
EditorialJuggler performing to music, 9th century. A man juggles knives and apples in the air, while musicians play a horn and violin. They all wear short green tunics over red stockings. From an 11th century manuscript. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engra...
EditorialNobles playing the game of tape-cul, a variant of main-chaude or blind-man's buff, 14th century. From an ancient manuscript entitled "Plaisirs de la vie rustique" in the Gaignieres collection. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Mass...
EditorialVillage nuptials, 14th century. The bride is accompanied home by her father and her groom, to the sound of rebecs (oboes). She wears a crown and girdle, a rich cape over a bodice and dress, identifying her as a duchess. From the Gaignieres collection. ...
EditorialFuneral rites of a bishop, 10th century. The bishop is laid out in a coffin in his vestments, mitre, almuce and surplice, with pollinctors and soldier in chainmail and helmet. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French ...
EditorialFrench cavalry charging with lance, 12th century. He wears a steel helmet, blue cuirass decorated with gold buttons, blue escutcheon with gold fleurs de lys, lance, gauntlets, cuisses, greaves and spurs. The horse has a crimson velvet saddle and gold c...
EditorialCape hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius capensis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre J...
EditorialGreat argus, Argusianus argus. Near threatened. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed...
EditorialFossil skeleton of a Great Beast, Megatherium, an extinct elephant-sized ground sloth of the Pliocene to Pleistocene. Copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J....