EditorialPortrait of Cochin-Chinese soldier. Portrait of a barefoot soldier standing full-length facing front, leaning on a wooden fence and holding a sheathed sword over his shoulder, dressed in knee-length wide trousers, long-sleeved chemise and turban, with ...
EditorialMajor-General Sir William Nott (1782-1845), c.1844 A three-quarter length figure, standing bare-headed with one hand holding a sheathed sword and the other extended as if in the act of addressing his troops. Full uniform of scarlet, with gold epaulette...
EditorialYad, Silver, wood, Round, dark wood shaft sheathed in silver at each end with small, movable, scalloped and incised finger rest in the center. Pointer terminates in right hand with index and middle fingers extended; rumpled cuff above wrist. Sheath on ...
EditorialStudies for a Woman With a Book, Pencil, black and white crayon on grey-blue paper, Study of a woman holding a large book in her right hand and lefting her left. Below a study of an upper arm and elbow sheathed in clothing and two studies of hands. Ver...
EditorialSidewall, Block printed on handmade paper, Vertical rectangle with arabesque or grotesque design. Printed on joined sheets of paper. Alternating motifs: two addorsed griffins upholding a flower basket; female figures sheathed in foliage, resting upon a...
EditorialStudy of Cavalry Officer's Boots, Winslow Homer, American, 18361910, Recto: Graphite, pen and black and brown ink on off-white wove paper, Recto: Vertical view of the lower legs of man wearing knee-high boots and standing in grass; a sheathed sword han...
EditorialRelief with Mithras kneeling upon a bull and driving a sword into its shoulder, at left two smaller standing figures, one holding a sheathed sword and one holding a sword, a frieze with chariots and serpents coiled around figures above.
EditorialMirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Disk: silver; handle: wood (modern) sheathed i...
EditorialColumn, 1905, Made in Oyster Bay, New York, United States, American, Mosaic, plaster, glass, and iron, 133 1/2 x 24 1/4 x 23 in. (339.1 x 61.6 x 58.4 cm), Architecture, Inspired by Byzantine mosaics, this column is sheathed top to bottom in iridescent ...
EditorialMirror with Hathor Emblem Handle, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Disk: silver; handle: wood (modern) sheathed in gold; inlays re...
EditorialRelief with Mithras kneeling upon a bull and driving a sword into its shoulder, at left two smaller standing figures, one holding a sheathed sword and one holding a sword, a frieze with chariots and serpents coiled around figures above.
EditorialRelief with Mithras kneeling upon a bull and driving a sword into its shoulder, at left two smaller standing figures, one holding a sheathed sword and one holding a sword, a frieze with chariots and serpents coiled around figures above.
EditorialRelief with Mithras kneeling upon a bull and driving a sword into its shoulder, at left two smaller standing figures, one holding a sheathed sword and one holding a sword, a frieze with chariots and serpents coiled around figures above.
EditorialHesperantha vaginata (Sheathed tile root, Geissorhiza vaginata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialSheathed woodtuft, Kuehneromyces mutabilis (Pholiota mutabilis) and rooting poison pie, Hebeloma radicosum (Pholiota radicosa). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerlan...
EditorialMuhammad 'Ali Khan. c.1774. Muhammad 'Ali Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic (1750-1795). The Nawab stands facing outwards, one hand grasping his girdle and the other holding the hilt of a sheathed sword. Oil on canvas Originally published/produced in c.1774...
EditorialPortrait of Cochin-Chinese soldier. Portrait of a barefoot soldier standing full-length facing front, leaning on a wooden fence and holding a sheathed sword over his shoulder, dressed in knee-length wide trousers, long-sleeved chemise and turban, with ...
EditorialMajor-General Sir William Nott (1782-1845), c.1844 A three-quarter length figure, standing bare-headed with one hand holding a sheathed sword and the other extended as if in the act of addressing his troops. Full uniform of scarlet, with gold epaulette...
EditorialMuhammad 'Ali Khan. c.1774. Muhammad 'Ali Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic (1750-1795). The Nawab stands facing outwards, one hand grasping his girdle and the other holding the hilt of a sheathed sword. Oil on canvas Originally published/produced in c.1774...
EditorialPortrait of Cochin-Chinese soldier. Portrait of a barefoot soldier standing full-length facing front, leaning on a wooden fence and holding a sheathed sword over his shoulder, dressed in knee-length wide trousers, long-sleeved chemise and turban, with ...
EditorialThe sultan holding court. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. The sultan holding court. Among those present is a young man seated bareheaded, holding a sheathed sword (illustration to the biography of Sultan Muhammad b....
EditorialMajor-General Sir William Nott (1782-1845), c.1844 A three-quarter length figure, standing bare-headed with one hand holding a sheathed sword and the other extended as if in the act of addressing his troops. Full uniform of scarlet, with gold epaulette...
EditorialMirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Disk: silver; handle: wood (modern) sheathed i...
EditorialRelief with Mithras kneeling upon a bull and driving a sword into its shoulder, at left two smaller standing figures, one holding a sheathed sword and one holding a sword, a frieze with chariots and serpents coiled around figures above.
EditorialScene from the Third Act of the Drama 'Soga Aigo', Edo period (1615?1868), 1769 spring, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 12 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (32.1 x 14.6 cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shunsho (Japanese, 1726?1792), In a driving nightt...
EditorialMirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Disk: silver; handle: wood (modern) sheathed i...
EditorialColumn, 1905, Made in Oyster Bay, New York, United States, American, Mosaic, plaster, glass, and iron, 133 1/2 x 24 1/4 x 23 in. (339.1 x 61.6 x 58.4 cm), Architecture, Inspired by Byzantine mosaics, this column is sheathed top to bottom in iridescent ...
EditorialMirror with Hathor Emblem Handle, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Disk: silver; handle: wood (modern) sheathed in gold; inlays re...
EditorialHesperantha vaginata (Sheathed tile root, Geissorhiza vaginata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialSheathed woodtuft, Kuehneromyces mutabilis (Pholiota mutabilis) and rooting poison pie, Hebeloma radicosum (Pholiota radicosa). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerlan...
EditorialRhynchostele cervantesii subsp. membranacea orchid (Membrane-sheathed toothtongue, Odontoglossum membranaceum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by J...