EditorialThree vases Vase with lid, multicolored painted with chinoiseries Three vases, Hexagonal vase with lid, painted porcelain. The neck is decorated with symmetrical leaf vines in gold, the ribs with a trim with a lace-like ornament. On the shoulders India...
EditorialJupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis, Jupiter and Mercury sit at the table in the home of the elderly couple Philemon and Baucis. Philemon tries to catch a fleeing goose but Jupiter stops him, (story of) Mercury (Hermes), (story of) Neptune (Po...
EditorialTablecloth of linen with a wide edge of fillet lace with arabesque leaves and lilies, Linen tablecloth with a wide edge of natural lace embroidery, fillet lace. Rectangular model with a border of straight bands with a symmetrical pattern, without a cor...
EditorialLudwig Refinger, Horatius Cocles Stopping King Porsenna's Army outside Rome, Horace Cocles stops King Porsennas here in front of Rome, painting, oil on panel, Height, 161 cm (63.3 inches), Width, 116 cm (45.6 inches), Signed, REFINGER.
EditorialDavid saves Saul's life on the Chachila Agste Book (title on object) David and Saul (series title), David stops Abisai who wants to kill the sleeping king Saul with a spear. The print is part of a series about the story of David and Saul., David and Ab...
EditorialSmoking man in front of a fireplace stops his pipe Le Fumeur (title on object), Numbered bottom left: No. 49. open hearth, fire-place, pipe, tobacco, armorial bearing, heraldry, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (mentioned on object), Paris, c. 1747, paper, engr...
EditorialMulti-colored cotton-cotton stopper, Cotton-cotton stopper. The embroidery has the initials GMS, the year 1916 and various stops., H.M. de Swart-van Akkeren, Amsterdam, 1916, cotton (textile), embroidering, l 25.0 cm ? w 25.0 cm.
EditorialCharadrius melodus, Print, The piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across th...
EditorialBas-de-page scene from a legend of the Virgin in which a virtuous woman (whose husband has bargained her away in exchange for wealth see f. 216v), stops at a church to pray and her place is taken by the Virgin in order to confound the Devil. Psalter ('...
EditorialVarieties of Moorish interlaced designs from the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Borders on mosaic Dados, 1-5,16,18, plaster ornaments on the walls 6-12,14, square stops 13,15, and ornament from the Great Arch in the Hall of the Boat 17. Chromolithograph by ...
EditorialSiren enchants sailors. Bestiary. England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. (Miniature) A Siren, portrayed with a fish's tail like a mermaid, lulls sailors to sleep with her song. One sailor stops his ears with his fingers to avoid hearing her. Image taken fro...
EditorialMerry Robin stops a stranger in scarlet.. Robin Hood and Will Scarlet. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood ... Illustrated. Sampson Low & Co.: London, 1883. Source: 558*.b.31, opposite 90. Language: English.
EditorialDick Turpin stops the Lord Mayor's coach'. Richard "Dick" Turpin (bap. 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. He was a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer....
EditorialDick Turpin stops the Lord Mayor's carriage'. Richard "Dick" Turpin (bap. 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. He was a poacher, burglar, horse thief and kill...
EditorialSiren and onocentaur lure sailors. Dicta Chrysostomi. N. France or S. Netherlands; 1280-1300. (Miniature) A siren, depicted as a woman with the tail of a fish, lures a sailor from a boat to drown in the depths of the sea. Another sailor stops his ears ...
Editorial'The antic fellow and Sikes.' Bill Sikes takes refuge in a public house in Hendon: 'There was a fire in the tap room and ... This was an antic fellow, half pedlar and half mountebank, who travelled about the country on foot to vend hones, stops, razors...
EditorialBas-de-page scene from a legend of the Virgin in which a virtuous woman (whose husband has bargained her away in exchange for wealth see f. 216v), stops at a church to pray and her place is taken by the Virgin in order to confound the Devil. Psalter ('...
EditorialAlice stops growing. Alice's Adventures Under Ground [in Wonderland]. England [Oxford]; 1862-1864. [Whole folio] Text from Chapter II: Alice stops growing, after drinking from the unlabelled bottle Image taken from Alice's Adventures Under Ground [in ...
EditorialClavicytherium, mid-18th century, Germany?, probably German, Wood, various materials, H.: 212.2 cm (83-1/2 in.) + stand 62.2 cm (24-1/2 in.) = 274.4 cm (108 in.) total height; W.: 95.5 cm (37-5/8 in.) Stand 102 cm (40-1/4 in.); D.: 48 cm (19 in.) Stand...
Editorial????? ?????, A Young Woman Reading A Letter, Edo period (1615?1868), 1790s, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (36.8 x 25.7 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753??1806), In this print, from a series p...
EditorialHarp Lute, ca. 1815, London, England, United Kingdom, British, Wood, lacquered and gilded, Overall: 35.2 x 12.9 x 84.1 cm (13 7/8 x 5 1/16 x 33 1/8 in.), Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted, Edward Light (British, London ca. 1747?ca. 1832 London), The har...
EditorialVarieties of Moorish interlaced designs from the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Borders on mosaic Dados, 1-5,16,18, plaster ornaments on the walls 6-12,14, square stops 13,15, and ornament from the Great Arch in the Hall of the Boat 17. Chromolithograph by ...
EditorialHodogaya, Ando, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist, [ca. 1855], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36 x 24.7 cm., Print shows several thatched-roof structures, possibly teahouses or rest stops in Hodogaya, the 5th station on the Tokaido Road; several pilgrims rest o...
EditorialHodogaya, Ando, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist, [ca. 1855], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36 x 24.7 cm., Print shows several thatched-roof structures, possibly teahouses or rest stops in Hodogaya, the 5th station on the Tokaido Road; several pilgrims rest o...
EditorialInterior mechanism of an English church organ showing pipes, bellows, stops, keys, choir, swell and great organ. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Scienc...