EditorialEcce Homo, n.d., Unknown artist, Austrian, 18th century, Austria, Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash,and black chalk, on blue laid paper, 324 ? 220 mm, In the Spring the Wanton Lapwing gets himself another Crest, n.d., George Cruikshank, Engli...
EditorialHumble Petition of the British Subjects. In 1773 the British government established the Supreme Court of Judicature for Bengal. Controversially, the court limited the use of juries to criminal cases, while at the same time it effectively extended Engli...
EditorialLepisorus nudus fern (glabrous scaly-fern, Pleopeltis nuda). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an Engli...
EditorialTwo-handled Bowl, 1700?1710, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver, Overall: 5 3/8 x 13 13/16 in. (13.7 x 35.1 cm); 25 oz. 19 dwt. (806.9 g), Silver, Cornelius Kierstede (1674?ca. 1757), Derived from Dutch, Scandinavian, and Engli...
EditorialA Dutch woman of North Holland. The Costume of the Netherlands displayed in thirty coloured engravings after drawings from nature by Miss Semple; with descriptions in English and French. London, 1817. Source: 140.g.20, opposite page 17. Language: Engli...
EditorialHelmets from the Tower of London. Barred helmet with bar up and down 1,2, three-bar helmet with bars up and down 3,4, and helmet with visor and bever 5,6. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the Engli...
EditorialMachines used in ancient sieges. Vinea 1, pluteus 2, moveable towers 3,4, and different modes of defending castle walls from a battering ram. Copperplate engraving by Goodnight from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the Engli...
EditorialEcce Homo, n.d., Unknown artist, Austrian, 18th century, Austria, Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash,and black chalk, on blue laid paper, 324 ? 220 mm, In the Spring the Wanton Lapwing gets himself another Crest, n.d., George Cruikshank, Engli...
EditorialCatholic priests being hanged. One in stocks being tortured with fire. 'Perfectiones aduerfus Catholicos in Hibernia ( Ireland ). A Catholic propaganda print from the late 16th century, showing the treatment of Catholic priests in Ireland by the Engli...
EditorialHumble Petition of the British Subjects. In 1773 the British government established the Supreme Court of Judicature for Bengal. Controversially, the court limited the use of juries to criminal cases, while at the same time it effectively extended Engli...
EditorialA Dutch woman of North Holland. The Costume of the Netherlands displayed in thirty coloured engravings after drawings from nature by Miss Semple; with descriptions in English and French. London, 1817. Source: 140.g.20, opposite page 17. Language: Engli...
EditorialTwo-handled Bowl, 1700?1710, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver, Overall: 5 3/8 x 13 13/16 in. (13.7 x 35.1 cm); 25 oz. 19 dwt. (806.9 g), Silver, Cornelius Kierstede (1674?ca. 1757), Derived from Dutch, Scandinavian, and Engli...
EditorialRegency gentlemen arriving at a brothel near Cheltenham to be greeted by a madam and her prostitutes. The Oakland Cottages, Cheltenham, or Fox Hunters and their Favourites. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The Engli...
EditorialLepisorus nudus fern (glabrous scaly-fern, Pleopeltis nuda). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an Engli...