EditorialTaming of the shrew, Katharine and Petruchio, The modern Quixotte, or, what you will, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1791, Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and s...
EditorialThe Personification of Resistance Preventing the Lover from Entering the Rose Garden, Unknown, Paris, France, about 1405, Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with dark red morocco, Leaf: 36.7 x 26 cm (14 7/1...
EditorialParra indica, Print, The bronze-winged jacana (Metopidius indicus) is a wader in the family Jacanidae. Like other jacanas it forages on lilies and other floating aquatic vegetation, the long feet spreading out its weight and preventing sinking. It is f...
EditorialParra indica, Print, The bronze-winged jacana (Metopidius indicus) is a wader in the family Jacanidae. Like other jacanas it forages on lilies and other floating aquatic vegetation, the long feet spreading out its weight and preventing sinking. It is f...
EditorialLeather loincloth, Egyptian, New Kingdom, c1550-c1079 BC. Leather loincloth cut from a single piece of hide, perhaps the skin of a gazelle. The diamond pattern decoration was made by cutting staggered slits, then pulling the leather to enlarge the hole...
EditorialSeated Actor Holding a Leaf, right sheet of a diptych Illustration of Preventing Measles. Date: fourth month 1862. Dimensions: 36.5 cm x 25 cm.
EditorialBas-de-page scene of the Virgin preventing a father from throwing his child into a burning oven; an inhabited initial 'V'(enite). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of the Virgin preventing the attack on a monk by the Devil, in the form of a lion. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.207. Language: Latin...
EditorialThe thief preventing the monkey from stabbing ants on the king’s body. By Rahman Quli. A.H. 1019 (A.D. 1610). ANWáR E SUHAILI, the Fables of Pilpay. Illustration from the Fables of Pilpay. Source: Add. 18579 f.244v. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe king saved by a thief. Anvar-i Suhayli. India, 1610-1611. The thief preventing the monkey from stabbing ants on the king's body. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Anvar-i Suhayli, a version of the Kalila va Dimna fables....
EditorialVenus preventing her son Aeneas from killing Helen of Troy. Date/Period: Ca. 1650. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 128.30 mm (5.05 in); Width: 169.50 mm (6.67 in).
EditorialTaming of the shrew, Katharine and Petruchio, The modern Quixotte, or, what you will, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1791, Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and s...
EditorialTaming of the shrew, Katharine and Petruchio, The modern Quixotte, or, what you will, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1791, Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and s...
EditorialPrayerbook from Corfu, Greece, 1692. A miscellaneous collection of prayers and sayings from the Talmud, this prayerbook is written in Judeo-Greek. Page shows the angel preventing Abraham from sacrificing his son Isaac. Watercolour on paper, 20 leaves, ...
EditorialLeather loincloth, Egyptian, New Kingdom, c1550-c1079 BC. Leather loincloth cut from a single piece of hide, perhaps the skin of a gazelle. The diamond pattern decoration was made by cutting staggered slits, then pulling the leather to enlarge the hole...