EditorialRuychaver at the corpse of a Spanish-minded counselor in Alkmaar, 1573 Scenes from the life of Prince William I, 1568-1584 ( series title), Nicolaas Ruychaver stands with raised sword at the corpse of a Spanish-minded counselor whom he has thrown out o...
EditorialDesigns for Colored Glass Vases, Brush and rose and green wash, gold gouache, graphite on white wove paper, Designs for three glasswares. In the center is a green vase with vegetal patterns on it. On either side of it are red vases with ovals cut out o...
EditorialCostume Design: Diana for a Ballet, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, Vertical rectangle. Shown standing, frontally. She carries an arrow in her right hand, and a bow in her left one. She wears a cloak with a tail. A crescent i...
EditorialDavid Octavius Hill, James Craig Annan, Robert Adamson, Lord Cochrane, paper, pigment print, image size: height: 14.50 cm; width: 11.20 cm, inscribed: recto: u. li. in lead: Lord Cochrane, right below the picture on the passe-partout in lead: Hill, rig...
EditorialScottish traveller John o Arnha with cudgel encounters a witch flying on a broomstick. Sae fently did she wing her flight, In a twinklin' she was out o' sight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Beatties John o Arnha, Montrose, Scotland, 1826.
EditorialRuychaver at the corpse of a Spanish-minded counselor in Alkmaar, 1573 Scenes from the life of Prince William I, 1568-1584 ( series title), Nicolaas Ruychaver stands with raised sword at the corpse of a Spanish-minded counselor whom he has thrown out o...
EditorialSilence of the speaker riot in Amsterdam, Medal to the Armed Civilians honored, Silver Medal Obverse: Neptune with trident standing on its chariot in a turbulent sea angrily punishes the released storm winds, in the foreground two birds that fall out o...
EditorialDisc rupture with Leonhard Thurneysser in the Orient on the acquisition of mummies, flanked by Ptolemy and Aristotle, below blank escutcheon, c. 1579, pen in black, gray washed, old mounted, folio: 64.1 x 49.2 cm, O. l., designated: PTOLOMEVS [M crosse...
EditorialTHE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, DRAWN BY ROBERT BARNES, WRITTEN BY THOMAS HARDY, 1886; "Elizabeth, my child, come and hearken to what we are talking about, and not hide staring out o' window as if ye didn't hear.".