Editorial“Umbra Triplicata” (2015) by the Budapest-based artist Laszlo Zsolt Bordos at the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague on Feb. 20, 2022. (Milan Bures for The New York Times)
Editorial“Umbra Triplicata” (2015) by the Budapest-based artist Laszlo Zsolt Bordos at the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague on Feb. 20, 2022. (Milan Bures for The New York Times)
EditorialUmbra Spielmanni, Silhouette of Jacob Reinbold Spielmann, frontispiece, Jacob Reinbold Spielmann: Jacob Reinbold Spielmanns [...] Anleitung zur Kenntniss der Arzneymittel zu akademischen Vorlesungen eingerichtet [...]. Strassburg: bey Johann Georg Treu...
EditorialVignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita. David Lucas (English, 1802-1881); after John Constable (English, 1776-1837). Date: 1831. Dimensions: 166 ? 229 mm (plate); 305 ? 465 mm (sheet). Mezzotint in b...
EditorialVignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita. David Lucas (English, 1802-1881); after John Constable (English, 1776-1837). Date: 1831. Dimensions: 166 ? 229 mm (plate); 305 ? 465 mm (sheet). Mezzotint in b...
EditorialQuomodo sibi constet altitudinem dimensio ex umbra tum Solis tum Lunae cadente Horoscopij filo super punta umbrae versae?, Height measurements with a sun quadrant and shadow, Fig. 7, p. 34, 1533, Petrus Apian: Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis h...
EditorialQua ratione ex umbra propria turrium altitudines Horoscopio nostro dimetiaris?, Altimetry with a sun quadrant, Fig. 6, p. 33, 1533, Petrus Apian: Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis horis cuiusqumque generis aptissimum [...]. His accedit distantia...
EditorialVignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita. David Lucas (English, 1802-1881); after John Constable (English, 1776-1837). Date: 1831. Dimensions: 166 ? 229 mm (plate); 305 ? 465 mm (sheet). Mezzotint in b...
EditorialRainbow wrasse, Coris julis 30, argus wrasse, Halichoeres argus 31, brown meagre, Sciaena umbra 32 and shi drum, Umbrina cirrosa 33. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fi...
EditorialClouded bemastistes, Bematistes umbra 1,2, common glassy acraea, Acraea quirina 3,4, and white acraea, Acraea circeis 5,6. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.