EditorialMallotus villosus, Print, The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf....
EditorialArchbishop Desmond Tutu seen at the London offices of St. John International. The organisation is best known around the world for its organisation, the St John Ambulance service. Tutu, as Prior of St John South Africa, is an advocate of the ST JOHN MOTHE
EditorialSisters Contemplating on Mortality, Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 17441811, British, after George Romney, 17341802, British, 1770, Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 20 ? 14 1/4 inches (50.8 ? 36.2 cm), Pla...
EditorialSisters, Contemplating on Mortality, Robert Dunkarton, 17441811, British, after George Romney, 17341802, British, 1770, Mezzotint, Sheet: 19 13/16 x 14 1/8in. (50.3 x 35.9cm).
EditorialThe Penitent Magdalen, ca. 1640, Oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 40 1/4 in. (133.4 x 102.2 cm), Paintings, Georges de La Tour (French, Vic-sur-Seille 1593?1653 Lun?ville), A sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the p...
EditorialFacts for fraternalists : names of orders and officers, certificate conditions, methods of operating, rates for assessment, statistical information, suggestions for organizers, mortality and interest tables, fraternalists vs. Old Liners, miscellaneous ...
EditorialTables of net premiums and values, based upon the Institute of Actuaries' (Hm.) table of mortality and interest at 3 1/2 per cent. for each 1,000 of insurance : Macdonald, William Campbell.
EditorialReport on the mortality records of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for fifty-six years from 1843 to 1898 : Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
EditorialOld Mortality / Still life of Skull, Books, and Hourglass / Vanitas / The Sands of Time, Thomas Richard Williams (English, 1825 - 1871), about 1860, Hand-colored albumen silver print.
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Young Man and Skull (Jeune homme ? la t?te de mort), Paul C?zanne, 1896?1898, Oil on canvas, Seated at a wooden table covered with books, a young man leans on his elbow in a pose recalling Renaissance representations of Melancholia, one o...
EditorialMallotus villosus, Print, The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf....
EditorialMortality has her Tears, plate 27 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1945. Dimensions: 582 ? 421 mm (image/plate); 647 ? 507 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialMortality has her Tears, plate 27 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1945. Dimensions: 582 ? 421 mm (image/plate); 647 ? 507 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialMortality has her Tears, plate 27 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1926. Dimensions: 580 ? 420 mm (plate); 655 ? 505 mm (sheet). Heliogravure with sugar-lift aquatint, drypoint, burnishing on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialEarly depravity. The London Guide, and Stranger’s Safeguard against. London, 1818. Example of early depravity. A lady being robbed by three boys. Image taken from The London Guide, and Stranger’s Safeguard against the cheats, swindlers, and pickpo...
EditorialThe table of casualties. Natural and political observations mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, and diseases of the said city. London, 1662. Source: 1...
EditorialThe Penitent Magdalen, ca. 1640, Oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 40 1/4 in. (133.4 x 102.2 cm), Paintings, Georges de La Tour (French, Vic-sur-Seille 1593?1653 Lun?ville), A sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the p...
EditorialHead of an Old Woman, after 1610, Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. (53 x 39 cm), Paintings, Orazio Borgianni (Italian, Rome 1578?1616 Rome), Among the most modern seeming pictures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are informal studies of he...
Editorial'Allegory on the Equality of all Mankind in Death', 1599. The complex meaning of this image is derived from the Latin inscriptions. The most important is that at the top of the tent: " MORS SCEPTRA LIGONIBUS AEQVAT" (Death makes the sceptre a...