EditorialOver 1,200 of Hollywoods biggest blockbuster film Artifacts and 20th and 21st century screen gems including John Travoltas Pulp Fiction suit and casino chips from James Bond film Casino Royale to dazzle the auction block
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
EditorialCaper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, and wolfsmilk spurge, Euphorbia esula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illus...
EditorialLa Caprier. Caper bush, Capparis spinosa, with sphinx moth. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans...
EditorialCaper spurge or paper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialCaper tree, Capparis spinosa, mulberry, Morus alba, and raspberry, Rubus idaeus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas ...
EditorialDictyophorus spumans (Koppie foam grasshopper) perhched on a Zygophyllum sp. (Caper bean). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 446 mm ? w 290 mm.
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialTo caper nimbly in a Lady's Chamber to the lascivious pleasing of a Lute. Date/Period: 1850. Pen and ink on paper. Height: 21 cm (8.2 in); Width: 17.2 cm (6.7 in).
EditorialCaper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, and wolfsmilk spurge, Euphorbia esula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illus...
EditorialLa Caprier. Caper bush, Capparis spinosa, with sphinx moth. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans...
EditorialCaper spurge or paper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialCaper tree, Capparis spinosa, mulberry, Morus alba, and raspberry, Rubus idaeus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas ...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialCardamon, Elettaria cardamomum 1, and caper bush, Capparis spinosa 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialCommon caper and rock caper, Capparis spinosa, flowers and leaves. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanica...
EditorialCaper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a drawing by B. Thanner from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe sea...
EditorialCaper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one ...
EditorialCaper bush, Capparis spinosa. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of t...
EditorialEgyptian caper bush, Capparis aegyptia, native to Egypt. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Corsi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli...
EditorialCaper bush, Capparis spinosa. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 pl...