EditorialThistle soft spiny leaves by gently biting the long shaft a few flowers ..., Illustration of a thistle species from the 18th century, signed: C.J. Rollinus, M.C. delin, Sculpsite C. F. Fitzsch filius Acad., G?tt, Sculptor, Tab. XVIII, Pag., 477, Rollin...
EditorialCircle Round! Gently Little One, I'm More than Fifteen Years Old. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860); printed by Chez Gihaut Fr?res (French, 19th century). Date: 1832. Dimensions: 175 ? 255 mm (image); 286 ? 400 mm (sheet). Lithograph in bl...
EditorialCircle Round! Gently Little One, I'm More than Fifteen Years Old. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860); printed by Chez Gihaut Fr?res (French, 19th century). Date: 1832. Dimensions: 175 ? 255 mm (image); 286 ? 400 mm (sheet). Lithograph in bl...
EditorialCircle Round! Gently Little One, I'm More than Fifteen Years Old. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860); printed by Chez Gihaut Fr?res (French, 19th century). Date: 1832. Dimensions: 175 ? 255 mm (image); 286 ? 400 mm (sheet). Lithograph in bl...
EditorialCircle Round! Gently Little One, I'm More than Fifteen Years Old. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860); printed by Chez Gihaut Fr?res (French, 19th century). Date: 1832. Dimensions: 175 ? 255 mm (image); 286 ? 400 mm (sheet). Lithograph in bl...
EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialFort Mastuj. Nov 1885. 'Mastuj, the capital of the district, is merely the fort in which the governor occasionally resides. The fort is situated in the middle of a gently sloping plain between the Yarkhun and Laspur rivers, and is a square structure o...
Editorial'Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep', 1530-1540. Clearly drawn from a model, a thin outline forms the delicate contour of her full-length body. Inside the line, the white of the paper shows the highlights while superb parallel hatching that has been g...
EditorialPillar edict of Emperor Asoka, Mauryan dynasty, 238 BCE. Massive freestanding pillars and their finely carved capitals are the most famous examples of Mauryan art and are found across India and Pakistan.They stand without a base and are topped with c...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialLandscape with Mountains, n.d., Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on pink prepared paper, sheet: 9 5/16 x 12 11/16 in. (23.6 x 32.2 cm), Drawings, Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) (Italian, Riale d'Alagna 1575/80?1632/33 Novara), This...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesa...
EditorialTHE South African plains vary in character, some gently undulating, clad with long grass, others more flat, covered with dense bush for miles, without grass—some dotted only with stunted thorns. The travellers have met the mail on the march, and when...
Editorial'Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep', 1530-1540. Clearly drawn from a model, a thin outline forms the delicate contour of her full-length body. Inside the line, the white of the paper shows the highlights while superb parallel hatching that has been g...
EditorialAnhour Khaou, chief builder at Thebes, seated with his wife (earring) and grandchildren, gently holding a lock of one of the granddaughters. Wallpainting in Anhour Khaou's tomb, carved 10 m below ground level in the cemetery of Deir el-Medina, Thebes, ...
EditorialPillar edict of Emperor Asoka, Mauryan dynasty, 238 BCE. Massive freestanding pillars and their finely carved capitals are the most famous examples of Mauryan art and are found across India and Pakistan.They stand without a base and are topped with c...
EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...