EditorialMaster of the Aeneid, Nisus and Euryalus Surprise the Rutuli in their Camp (Aeneid, Book IX), French, Limoges, Master of the Aeneid (active ca. 153040), ca. 153035, French, Limoges, Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt, 8 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (22.2 x 19.7 ...
EditorialEurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, with hood. Faucon a poitrine blanche, Falco nisus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann after an illustration from nature by Barbara Regina Dietzsch from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Nat...
EditorialSperwer (Accipiter nisus). Sperrewerre / Hecipiter levis rubelarius / Creferelle (title on object). Artist: Joseph Antoine van Huerne (mentioned on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place...
EditorialSperwer (Accipiter nisus). Sperrewerre / Hecipiter levis rubelarius / Creferelle (title on object). Artist: Joseph Antoine van Huerne (mentioned on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Bo?tius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place...
EditorialScylla and Minos. Metamorphoses. Antoine Vérard: Paris, 1494. (Whole page) Scylla and Minos. Scylla cuts off the head of her father King Nisus of Alcathous, and offers it to King Minos of Crete to make peace between them. Source: IC.41148, LXXXv. Lang...
EditorialEurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialEurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, and northern goshawk, Accipiter gentilis. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.