EditorialModel of a Topsail, Model of a sail sail on a window. The sail has fourteen sail rugs upstairs and twenty downstairs, crotch bands, three revenues, two pop straps, bowline shoots and lap horns, reinforced with leather. The starboard lap horn consists o...
EditorialModel of a Topsail, Model of a sail sail of twenty-one tarpaulins above and thirty-one below, with crotch bands, four revenues, three pop ties, bowline shoots and lap horns, reinforced with leather. The revenues consist of reef guides instead of reef s...
EditorialJean-Baptiste Oudry, Spaniel Seizing a Bittern, Poodle in battle with drumming, painting, 1725, oil on canvas, Height, 97 cm (38.1 inches), Width, 131 cm (51.5 inches), Signed, JB, Oudry 1725.
EditorialAn Eagle Seizing a Snail, A Crow Pecking at a Snail, Unknown, Trier (probably), Germany, third quarter of 15th century, Pen and black ink and colored washes on paper, Leaf: 28.7 x 20.6 cm (11 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.).
EditorialMan Struggling with a Boa Constrictor, Study for "Liboya Serpent Seizing its Prey". Date/Period: Ca. 1803. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 838 mm (32.99 in); Width: 1,194 mm (47 in).
EditorialIn the palace, Rāva?a and his remaining brothers and sons are bowed down by grief and Rāva?a wonders how he can ever be victorious in this conflict, when so many demon champions have been slain. Another son, Indrajit, boasts that he will overcome...
EditorialMiniature of four scenes from the Gospel of Mark in quatrefoils, (top left) Christ before the High Priest who wears a mitre, (top right) a man seizing another by pulling back his cloak as he leaves a building, from which he dropped his cloak and fled n...
EditorialA bas-de-page scene of the Devil seizing two men by their throats. Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Source: Royal 10...
EditorialMan Struggling with a Boa Constrictor, Study for "Liboya Serpent Seizing its Prey". Date/Period: Ca. 1803. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 838 mm (32.99 in); Width: 1,194 mm (47 in).
EditorialDarab realising the treachery of Faylaqus and Shu'ayb, and seizing them both by their throats during the meal. Darabnama. c.1580-1585. Source: Or. 4615, f.123v. Language: Persian.
EditorialSeizing for assessed taxes according to law. The Political drama. [A series of caricatures.]. [London] : Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market, [1834-1835.]. Source: HS.74/1630 no. 30.
EditorialDarab realising the treachery of Faylaqus and Shu'ayb, and seizing them both by their throats during the meal. Darabnama. c.1580-1585. Source: Or. 4615, f.123v. Language: Persian.
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a man with two greyhounds, one of which is seizing a hare. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.154. Language: Latin, with French image c...
EditorialIn the palace, Rāva?a and his remaining brothers and sons are bowed down by grief and Rāva?a wonders how he can ever be victorious in this conflict, when so many demon champions have been slain. Another son, Indrajit, boasts that he will overcome...
EditorialKhusraw's war-elephant seizing Bahram Chubin in its trunk during their battle. Khamsa. ('Five Poems'). India, 1595. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). . Source: Or. 12208, f.72. Language: Persian.
EditorialMiniature of four scenes from the Gospel of Mark in quatrefoils, (top left) Christ before the High Priest who wears a mitre, (top right) a man seizing another by pulling back his cloak as he leaves a building, from which he dropped his cloak and fled n...
EditorialA bas-de-page scene of a hermit seizing a mallet from the miller; above them, the windmill . Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th...
EditorialA bas-de-page scene of the Devil seizing two men by their throats. Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Source: Royal 10...
EditorialChapter XX. '... the old kingfisher lighted, and seizing our captain, who had been active in breaking the egg, in one of her claws, flew with him above a mile high, ...'. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Illustrated by William Strang, R.A...
EditorialWarrior Seizing a Kneeling Figure. Dated: 1775/80. Dimensions: overall: 13.4 x 16.2 cm (5 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.). Medium: black chalk on laid paper.
EditorialMan Struggling with a Boa Constrictor, Study for "Liboya Serpent Seizing its Prey". Date/Period: Ca. 1803. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 838 mm (32.99 in); Width: 1,194 mm (47 in).
EditorialWarrior Seizing a Kneeling Figure. Dated: 1775/80. Dimensions: overall: 13.4 x 16.2 cm (5 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.). Medium: black chalk on laid paper.
EditorialLimestone votive statuette of a hound seizing a hare, Classical or Hellenistic, 5th?1st century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, L. 6 1/2 in (16.5 cm); H. 2 3/8 in (6 cm), Stone Sculpture, This statue may have been a gift for a hunter. Traces of red paint rem...
EditorialMan Struggling with a Boa Constrictor, Study for "Liboya Serpent Seizing its Prey" Study of a Negro Struggling with a Boa Constrictor for 'A Boa Serpent Seizing a Horse', James Ward, 1769-1859, British.
EditorialThe American Civil War: Scene At Fort Moultrie During The Bombardment Of Charleston, 6 June, 1863. . One of the most gallant feats in the bombardment of Fort Charleston. The action was at its height when a ball cut the flagstaff in two just above the t...