EditorialNegative - St Kilda, Victoria, pre 1920, A bathing box being towed from the water by a horse. The steps from the box to the water can be seen through the wheels.
EditorialThe praying cylinders of Thibet. Buddhist prayer-wheels are rotating cylinders of varying size containing pieces of paper with prayers ('mantras') written or printed on them. The cylinders revolve clockwise, the direction of the sun's movement around t...
EditorialPlate XLVIII from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Pump shown inside a tower, left, cut away. It works by means of a water wheel, right, cog wheels and a curved pipe which moves a piece up and down, and others in...
EditorialSketches from Narragansett, Rhode Island, Samuel Colman, American, 18321920, Pencil, pen, brown ink. Reverse: with water colors, white gouache. Gray paper, Vertical rectangle. Obverse: Oblique view of a grazing ox and the center part of his body, shown...
EditorialL'Institut de France, Paris, Thomas Shotter Boys, 18031874, British, 1830, Watercolor, with pen in brown ink over graphite on beige, moderately thick, rough, wove paper, Sheet: 14 x 10 7/16 inches (35.6 x 26.5 cm), architectural subject, barrels (conta...
EditorialThe Mocking of Ceres, 1646, Etching, only state, Sheet: 11 13/16 in. ? 9 in. (30 ? 22.9 cm), Prints, After Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583?1648 Utrecht), After Adam Elsheimer (German, Frankfurt 1578?1610 Rome), Mocking of Ceres, a nocturnal scene...
EditorialCeres Seeking Her Daughter or Ceres and Stillio, 1625?77, Etching, only state, sheet: 11 5/16 x 9 1/8 in. (28.7 x 23.2 cm), Prints, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607?1677 London), After Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583?1648 Utrecht), Mockin...
EditorialA kind of a water mill with ligature water wheels, Watermill with horizontal wheels, signed: B. S. (f.), Fig. 6, after p. 18, p. 30, Schwan, Balthasar (f.), 1629, Iacobum de Strada ? Rosberg: Kunstliche Abriss, allerhand Wasser-, Wind-, Ross- und Hand ...
EditorialNegative - St Kilda, Victoria, pre 1920, A bathing box being towed from the water by a horse. The steps from the box to the water can be seen through the wheels.
EditorialThe Mocking of Ceres, 1646, Etching, only state, Sheet: 11 13/16 in. ? 9 in. (30 ? 22.9 cm), Prints, After Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583?1648 Utrecht), After Adam Elsheimer (German, Frankfurt 1578?1610 Rome), Mocking of Ceres, a nocturnal scene...
EditorialCeres Seeking Her Daughter or Ceres and Stillio, 1625?77, Etching, only state, sheet: 11 5/16 x 9 1/8 in. (28.7 x 23.2 cm), Prints, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607?1677 London), After Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583?1648 Utrecht), Mockin...
EditorialThe praying cylinders of Thibet. Buddhist prayer-wheels are rotating cylinders of varying size containing pieces of paper with prayers ('mantras') written or printed on them. The cylinders revolve clockwise, the direction of the sun's movement around t...