EditorialGeography, Geometric Construction of Globes, Construction of a globe, Signed: Benard Direx, Pl. 1, after p. 14, Benard (dir.), Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts et des m?tierss, des arts et des ...
EditorialTrees, animals and nuts, Veneration of images of God Mangas Nooten / Arbres, Animaux, etc. des Indes // Tyden, Idols / Idoles, Mathematiciens, Philosophes etc. des Indes (title on object) Les Indes Orientales and Occidentales and autres lieux (series t...
EditorialVincent van Gogh: The Factory, Vincent van Gogh, July?September 1887, Oil on canvas, In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape outside of Paris was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry. Here Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in A...
EditorialVincent van Gogh: The Factory, Vincent van Gogh, July?September 1887, Oil on canvas, In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape outside of Paris was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry. Here Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in A...
EditorialVincent van Gogh: The Factory, Vincent van Gogh, July?September 1887, Oil on canvas, In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape outside of Paris was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry. Here Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in A...
EditorialVincent van Gogh: The Factory, Vincent van Gogh, July?September 1887, Oil on canvas, In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape outside of Paris was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry. Here Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in A...
EditorialVincent van Gogh: The Factory, Vincent van Gogh, July?September 1887, Oil on canvas, In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape outside of Paris was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry. Here Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in A...
EditorialPhotograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Factory Clock Tower, Sunshine, Victoria, 1953, Photograph of the crown atop the Sunshine factory clock tower celebrating the royal visit. The Crown was designed and made by a team of factory workers and contained ...
EditorialGround plan of the mines of Fort N. 1 together with the Globes de Compression and mines of the besieged, Mines at Fort no. 2 at the siege of Schweidnitz in 1762 in the Seven Years' War, plan III, after p. 293, Georg Friedrich von Tempelhoff, Henry Lloy...
EditorialGeography, Mechanical Construction of Globes, Construction of a globe, Signed: Benard Direx, Pl. 2, after p. 14, Benard (dir.), Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts et des m?tierss, des arts et des...
EditorialGlobes. Jacques Gaston Duchamp Villon; French, 1875-1963. Date: 1930. Dimensions: 171 ? 216 mm (plate); 295 ? 395 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialGlobes. Jacques Gaston Duchamp Villon; French, 1875-1963. Date: 1930. Dimensions: 171 ? 216 mm (plate); 295 ? 395 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialAbove, miniature showing Christ on a donkey, accompanied by two apostles, entering Jerusalem, with Zacchaeus casting branches down from the top of a palm tree and others casting palms and cloaks before Jesus. Below, historiated initial 'D' beginning te...
EditorialA map of Spain and Portugal. L'ESPAGNE, : suivant l'étendue DE TOUS SES ROYAUMES ET PRINCIPAUTéS, COMPRIS SOUS LES COURONNES DE CASTILLE, D'ARAGON: ET DE PORTUGAL. PARIS : Chez le Sr. Iaillot, geographe ordinaire du roy, joignant les grands Augustins...
EditorialCelestial globe by Thomas Tuttell. [Celestial globe] [by] Tho[mas] Tuttell ... Hydrographer & Mathematical Instrument mak[e]r to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. [London] : Tho[mas] Tuttell, Charing + [i.e. Cross], [1700]. Only known surviving example...
EditorialPaper globe, 1780. [A terrestrial globe] Miss Cowley inv[enti]t. London : John Marshall & Comp[an]y, Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane, October 1st 1785. "Paper globes, 1780s These paper globes were made in the 1780s by a Miss Cowley as educational too...
EditorialDrake's world voyage. Vera totius expeditionis nauticae Descriptio D. Fr. Amsterdam(?), 1590. Map of Drake's circumnavigation of the globe. The Golden Hind is depicted in the bottom centre between the globes. Image taken from Vera totius expeditionis ...
EditorialCelestial globe by Thomas Tuttell. [Celestial globe] [by] Tho[mas] Tuttell ... Hydrographer & Mathematical Instrument mak[e]r to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. [London] : Tho[mas] Tuttell, Charing + [i.e. Cross], [1700]. Only known surviving example...
EditorialM. Evanion, the royal conjuror, will give his new and original entertainment ... Astounding feats in natural magic … The grand feat of the globes of fire, fish and birds. With engraved illustrations showing Evanion's acts e.g. a tree changed into a p...
EditorialPair of Globes; Globes designed and assembled by Jean-Antoine Nollet, French, 1700 - 1770, The terrestrial map engraved by Louis Borde, French, active 1730 - 1740, and celestial map engraved by Nicolas Bailleul le jeune, French, active 1740s, lacquer d...
EditorialChandelier, ca. 1900?1910, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Leaded opalescent glass, metal, H. 19 1/8 in. (48.6 cm); Diam. 20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm), Glass, Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892?1902), This delicate and gr...
EditorialThe skeleton of Death comes for the Fortune Teller in his room decorated with planetary globes, astrology books, and crocodile. Two lady clients watch in terror. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of...
EditorialPair of Globes; Globes designed and assembled by Jean-Antoine Nollet, French, 1700 - 1770, The terrestrial map engraved by Louis Borde, French, active 1730 - 1740, and celestial map engraved by Nicolas Bailleul le jeune, French, active 1740s, lacquer d...
EditorialThe fireworks offered by the city of Paris in honour of the wedding of Mme. Louise Elisabeth to Philippe, Infant of Spain. Sketch of the third picture: " Three globes, four spheres, two garlands with the portrait of his Majesty, the Dauphin and th...
EditorialBrass celestial globe from Maragha, Iran, around 1275-1276. Made by Muhammad ibn Hibal. Celestial globes were first produced by Greek astronomers and later in the Islamic world, where the earliest known globes date from the 11th ct. OA 1871.3-1.1.a, b.