EditorialPendant Announcement, birth, adoration of the kings and crucifixion, interior of a pendant (jewelry), The pendant, a so-called 'lantern', consists of four rectangular sides, in which openwork representations are carved within a frame of pillars on whic...
EditorialFrame for a small devotional picture, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 17461809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, Similarly framed as in -1385 but without a garland. The small inner frame is rectangular and is supported ...
EditorialDe Geboorten, Print made by Frederik Christiaan Bierweiler, active 18001831, Dutch, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 15771640, Flemish, Published by J. Groenewoud, active 17951815, Dutch, ca. 1820, Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textur...
EditorialPendant Announcement, birth, adoration of the kings and crucifixion, interior of a pendant (jewelry), The pendant, a so-called 'lantern', consists of four rectangular sides, in which openwork representations are carved within a frame of pillars on whic...
EditorialNativity and the Adoration of the Magi Christ's Birth / The Wysen come from the East (title on object), Two representations of one plate. Print marked upper right: fol. 14, story of the birth of Christ (Luke 2: 1-20), adoration of the kings: the Wise M...
EditorialAdoration of the Kings, Mary and Joseph show the Christ child to the three sages. The three offer the child their gifts. In the background members of their entourage. In the distance, the star that led them to the stable in Bethlehem, adoration of the ...
EditorialAdoration of the kings, Mary sits on a raised profile to the left with the naked Child on her lap, who turns to the kneeling Melchior, who holds it to a ciborium. From left to right the standing figure of Caspar, a young man with a sword. Balthasar wit...
EditorialAdoration of the Kings, Mary and Joseph show the Christ child to the three sages. The three offer the child their gifts. In the background members of their entourage. In the distance the star that led them to the stable in Bethlehem seems to be adorati...
EditorialPendant Announcement, birth, adoration of the kings and crucifixion, interior of a pendant (jewelry), The pendant, a so-called 'lantern', consists of four rectangular sides, in which openwork representations are carved within a frame of pillars on whic...
EditorialNativity and the Adoration of the Magi Christ's Birth / The Wysen come from the East (title on object), Two representations of one plate. Print marked upper right: fol. 14, story of the birth of Christ (Luke 2: 1-20), adoration of the kings: the Wise M...
EditorialPlate with the Adoration of Jesus by the Magi, Rectangular plate of multi-colored majolica with the Adoration of the Magi. In a landscape in the foreground Maria is sitting with the child on her lap. The Sages are kneeling and standing with her entoura...
EditorialPrayer nut with The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi, A small silver-coated prayer note, consisting of two miniature reliefs of the Nativity of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi. Both reliefs are made of boxwood and mounted in two hinged, silv...
EditorialAdoration of the kings Vita Deiparae Virginis Mariae (series title) Life of the Virgin Mary (series title), Mary is sitting with the Christ child on her lap at the stable in Bethlehem. Two angels are behind Maria. Three kings are in worship for Christ....
EditorialAdoration of the kings, Relief of alabaster with The Adoration of the Kings. The bottom runs in a slanted cartouche, on which the monogram HVH, adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh),...
EditorialPsalm 44; Magi follow the star. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 44. Border decoration with two grotesques. In the lower margin the three Magi, crowned as kings, ride their horses in pursuit of the star. The...
EditorialPsalm 44; Magi follow the star. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 44. Border decoration with two grotesques. In the lower margin the three Magi, crowned as kings, ride their horses in pursuit of the star. The...
EditorialPreparation of frankincense. The Ni'matnama-i Nasir al-Din Shah. A manuscript o. 1495 - 1505. Preparation of frankincense for the Sultan Ghiyath al-Din. Opaque watercolour. Sultanate style. Image taken from The Ni'matnama-i Nasir al-Din Shah. A manusc...
EditorialMiniature of a deer, to illustrate os de cor de cervi, or hardened cartilage from the hearts of deer; miniature of a squid, to illustrate cuttlebone; miniature of olibanum, or the plant from which frankincense is derived. Tractatus de herbis (Herbal); ...
EditorialLoblolly pine, oldfield pine or frankincense pine, Pinus taeda. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialFrankincense, luban tree, or olibanum-tree, Boswellia sacra (Boswellia carterii). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialFrankincense or olibanum-tree, Boswellia sacra (Boswellia carterii). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialIndian frankincense or salai, Boswellia serrata. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, b...
EditorialIndian frankincense, Boswellia serrata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berl...