EditorialStage Design, Prison Interior, Pen and bistre ink, brush and wash on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Entrance of prison with trapdoor. Two guards in foreground stand with large weapons, two figures descend into trapdoor., Italy, early 19th century, theate...
EditorialMygalomorph trapdoor spider and its nest, and beetles, Mylabris species. Mygale pioniere et son nid, Mylabres. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dic...
EditorialBavarian suit of jousting armour 1600. With mentoniere helmet with perforated door for ventilation, shoulder shield for tilting, pauldron, elbow plates, wide cuisses to accommodate the stuffed breeches of the period. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyri...
EditorialCteniza, Print, Cteniza is a small genus of Old World trapdoor spiders found in France and Italy, first described by Pierre Andr? Latreille in 1829., it contains only three species: C. genevieveae, C. moggridgei, and C. sauvagesi.
EditorialGiant crab spider, Heteropoda venatoria (American tarantula spider, Aranea venatoria) and nest with trapdoor. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Nat...
EditorialPinktoe tarantula, Avicularia avicularia (Mygale avicularia), and nest of a trapdoor spider, Mygale coementaria. Handcolored engraving by Corbie after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (...