EditorialThe Trading Post at Dejima Makimono Nagasaki and Deshima, Scroll Painting, from right to left: five ships at sea for the port of Nagasaki, one of which is Dutch, one Siamese and three Chinese. Then the map of Nagasaki with the island of Deshima and the...
EditorialThai river landscape with corpse image of a distinguished Siamese corpse (title on object), View of a Thai river landscape with funeral procession ending at a temple. Boats are moored on the shore, with figures watching in the foreground. An elephant i...
EditorialWilliam Baillie, English, 1723-1810, after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640, Siamese Priest Attached to the Embassy at the Court of Charles I, 1774, crayon manner engraving printed in black ink on wove paper, Plate: 18 ? 13 inches (45.7 ? 33 cm).
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialWilliam Baillie, English, 1723-1810, after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640, The Siamese Ambassador at the Court of King Charles I, 1774, crayon manner engraving printed in black ink on wove paper, Plate: 19 1/2 ? 13 inches (49.5 ? 33 cm).
EditorialCervus africanus, Print, Cervus is a genus of deer that primarily are native to Eurasia, although one species occurs in northern Africa and another in North America. In addition to the species presently placed in this genus, it has included a whole ran...
EditorialA group of Lascars (sailors). They are described as Bengali, Malay and Siamese. The Asiatic in England; sketches of sixteen years' work among Orientals. With a preface by H. Venn, and an introduction by R. M. Hughes... London, 1873. A group of Lascars ...
EditorialMiss Anna Swan. A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscella. London, c. 1871. A poster describing Miss Anna Swan, the Nova-Scotian giantess, the largest woman in the world. Below the illustration is mentioned the world renowned Siamese twins, an...
Editorial'The Siamese ambassadors - from photographs by Mayall'. . The Illustrated London News. London, 1857. Source: The Illustrated London News, 5 December 1857, page 561.
EditorialLes frères Siamois.' Chang and Eng Bunker (May 11, 1811 – January 17, 1874) were Thai-American conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins". L'illustration : journal universel. Paris : J.J. Du...
EditorialFloor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), 18th century, India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market, Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), Overall: 83 x 43 1/8 in. (210.8 x 109.5 cm), Textiles-Painted and Printed, Luxury painted cotton textiles expr...
EditorialA Young French Lady and a Siamese Servant Taking a Dog for a Walk, Edo period (1615?1868), November 1860, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm), Prints, Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 1807?1878/79).
EditorialMedieval noble women playing skittles on a castle terrace, and Siamese women playing skittles. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialPortrait and profile of one of the famous Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, aged 25, and Indian woman of Calcutta, aged 22, wearing nose ring and jewelry. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Verner from Charles d'Orbigny's Dic...
EditorialSiamese man (Thailand) in pointed hat, shirt, dhoti, and slippers. Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudony...
EditorialInstruments from Thailand and China: Saw tai (Siamese fiddle) in carved ivory and enamelled gold (centre), two Chinese fiddles Saw duang and Saw oo surrounding it, Thai klui (flute) with a membrane over one hole (left) and Thai pee (oboe) considered to...