EditorialMaria Borisova, left, photographs her brother, Sergey, and his wife, Oksana Moskvina, as Lucas Cranach the Elder’s “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” (c. 1530) as they stay at home in self-isolation to prevent spread of the coronavirus outside Moscow, April 9, 2020. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialUpper illustration, practising with cross-bow. Lower illustration, cross-bow shooting at the butts. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and ...
EditorialArchery. A man shooting an arrow at a cockerel. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles. London : William Reeves, 1830. S...
EditorialMatt Hall, the mayor of Cody, Wyo., stands with a statue of a horse at the Big Bear Motel in Cody, Jan. 28, 2020. (Elliot Ross/The New York Times)
EditorialThe ingenious and diverting letters of the Lady--travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humours, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people : Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 51-1705.
EditorialUpper illustration, men on horseback hawking. Lower illustration, ladies hawking. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles...
EditorialUpper illustration, practising with cross-bow. Lower illustration, cross-bow shooting at the butts. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and ...
EditorialArchery. A man shooting an arrow at a cockerel. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles. London : William Reeves, 1830. S...
EditorialCommon air pump. Rational Recreations ... The third edition, correc. L. Davis, etc.: London, 1787. Source: 1509/430 volume IV, 8 plate 1. Language: English.
EditorialDiving bell. Rational Recreations ... The third edition, correc. L. Davis, etc.: London, 1787. Various instruments. Fig. 4 is an illustration of a diving bell as devised by Edmond Halley. Image taken from Rational Recreations The third edition, correc...
EditorialSaxon hawking. This engraving shows a Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks, by the bank of a river, waiting for the rising of the game. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may gam...
EditorialInkstand (?critoire), 18th century, French, possibly Lille, Faience (tin-glazed earthenware), Overall: 11 ? 15 1/4 ? 9 3/4 in. (27.9 ? 38.7 ? 24.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Round the central disc are figures representing the recreations of the Four Season...