EditorialDesign for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les An?mones (Anemones) for the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red cr...
EditorialDesign for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Lys (Lillies) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown, black ink, brush and wash, white gouache, graphite on tan paper mo...
EditorialMinya Diez-D?hrkoop, Two Women in the Orchard, purchased 1916, silver gelatin paper, black and white positive process, image size: height: 22.30 cm; width: 16.50 cm, dry stamp: recto u. re. D?hrkoop, 1908; recto on the dark brown cardboard: Minya, Diez...
EditorialJar, 1st3rd century CE, Earthenware with raised decoration, 15 in. (38.1?cm), Unlike the inhabitants of Japan during the preceding Jomon period, those of the Yayoi lived a more settled existence, due to the introduction of irrigated rice cultivation an...
EditorialA clay tablet with a cuneiform inscription. The long (56 lines) beautifully written letter deals with a person in the family of the sender, who lived in the town of Lagaba. Deployment of the process was the possession of a slave, given by his father to...
Editorial? ??? ??? ? ??, Landscapes, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), China, Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper, Each: 8 7/16 ? 6 9/16 in. (21.4 ? 16.7 cm), Paintings, Dai Benxiao (Chinese, 1621?1693), All his life Dai pursued a dry, softly textured style, creating ...
Editorial? ?? ????? ?, Silent Angler in an Autumn Wood, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1475, China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 60 x 24 3/4 in. (152.4 x 62.9 cm), Paintings, Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427?1509), Born to a family of scholars and ar...
EditorialFarmers in a field with corn sheaves CXXXI. Upon seeing a Maeyer, sharpening his Zein with the whetstone (title on object), A farmer is sharpening his mowing tools. On the left in the background a second figure binds a grain sheaf. Pent from a book in ...
EditorialIndia rubber, gutta-percha, and balata: occurrence, geographical distribution, and cultivation of rubber plants; manner of obtaining and preparing the raw material, modes of working and utilizing them, and statistics of commerce : Brannt, William T. (W...
EditorialHermit watches his visitor dig into the ground to trace mice, anchorite, hermit, spading, soil cultivation, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1693, paper, letterpress printing, h 90 mm ? w 77 mm.
EditorialOur new possessions-- four books in one-- : a graphic account, descriptive and historical, of the tropic islands of the sea which have fallen under our sway ... : special chapters on tropical cultivation, sugar, coffee, etc. ... : White, Trumbull, 1868...
EditorialNuts for profit. A treatise on the propagation and cultivation of nut-bearing trees adapted to successful culture in the United States : Parry, John R.
EditorialMusical memory and its cultivation : also an investigation into the forms of memory employed in pianoforte playing, and a theory as to the relative extent of the employment of such forms : Shinn, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1867-1950.
EditorialPractical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants for the amateur and professional florist : Henderson, Peter, 1822-1890.
EditorialDish with Chinese farmers engaged in rice cultivation, Porcelain dish with a round wall, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant and black. On the front a representation of Chinese farmers who are busy with rice c...
EditorialHirundo striolata, Print, The striated swallow (Cecropis striolata) is a species of swallow found in open, often hilly areas, clearings and cultivation in South and Southeast Asia to northeastern India and Taiwan., 1857-1858.
EditorialMolothrus bonariensis, Print, The shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds in most of South America apart from the most dense jungles, mountains and deserts (although spreading into these ha...
EditorialAnthus rufulus, Print, The paddyfield pipit or Oriental pipit (Anthus rufulus) is a small passerine bird in the pipit and wagtail family. It is a resident (non-migratory) breeder in open scrub, grassland and cultivation in southern Asia east to the Phi...
EditorialField Negro. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch. R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?]. The field Negro is represented with the implements employed in the cultivation of the sugar cane. The hoe is used to prepare the holes for the cane cut...
Editorial? ??? ??? ? ??, Landscapes, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), China, Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper, Each: 8 7/16 ? 6 9/16 in. (21.4 ? 16.7 cm), Paintings, Dai Benxiao (Chinese, 1621?1693), All his life Dai pursued a dry, softly textured style, creating ...
Editorial? ?? ????? ?, Silent Angler in an Autumn Wood, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1475, China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 60 x 24 3/4 in. (152.4 x 62.9 cm), Paintings, Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427?1509), Born to a family of scholars and ar...
EditorialTEA CULTIVATION IN BRITISH INDIA, 1876: 1. Ging Tea Plantation, Darjeeling. 2. Weighing the Leaf. 3. Plucking the Leaf. 4. Rolling by Hand. 5. Withering in the Sun. 6. Rolling by Machinery. 7. Withering in the Factory. 8. Sorting by Machinery.
EditorialField irrigation machinery for rice cultivation in Asia. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Augsburg, 1811. Gottlieb Tobias Wilh...