EditorialMr Romford treats Sponge. Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. By the author of Handle. Bradbury & Evans: London, 1853. Mr Romford treats Sponge to a little music. Image taken from Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. By the author of Handley Cross [i.e. R. S. Surtees]. ...
EditorialThe Crucifixion. Christ on a cross formed from a tree trunk; Longinus pierces his side with a spear, and Stephaton hands up a sponge. Tiberius Psalter. Winchester; circa 1050. Source: Cotton Tiberius C. VI, f.13. Language: Latin.
EditorialThe Crucifixion. The nailing of Christ to the Cross, as Longinius pierces his side with a spear, and Stephaton hands up a sponge. The Virgin and St John stand at the foot of the Cross. Huth Psalter. England [Lincoln or York?]; after 1280. Source: Add. ...
EditorialPsalm 49; the Crucifixion. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 49. Border decoration with animal grotesque in the outer margin. In the lower margin, Christ on the Cross; at his side, the Virgin faints in the ar...
EditorialAn illustrated title page depicting two men in discussion. A woodcut. The Proctor and Parator their mourning: or, the lamentation of the Doctors Commons for their downfall: being a true dialogue, relating the fearfull abuses and exorbitancies of those ...
EditorialA sponge. Sketches of scenery, portraits of natives, with representations of ceremonies, costume, etc., in New Zealand, done in sepia, colours, or pencil. 1846. Source: Add. 19953 f.13, plate 28.
EditorialBotanical illustration of plants, including a sponge. Herbal. Italy, N. (Lombardy). Herbal. Italy, N. (Lombardy) c. 1440. Source: Sloane 4016 f.94. Language: Latin.
EditorialInitial 'Q', Hippocrates medicating a patient.The bed-ridden patient is probably suffering from a fever, and Hippocrates, who is depicted as a contemporary university physician, seems to be administering a liquid from a sponge or shallow dish. De Regim...
EditorialThe Crucifixion. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England; circa 1320-1330. [Whole folio] Christ hangs naked on the cross, between two thieves, Stephaton offers him a sponge. Below the cross, the three Maries Image taken from Holkham Bible Picture Book. O...
EditorialWomen of Venice dying their hair using a ?solana? (a wide brim hat with a hole in the centre), one with a sponge A, and one with comb in front of a mirror after Cesare Vecellio B, and wooden comb C. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Art...
EditorialElle tire de sa poitrine une eponge toute noire, la couvre de baisers (She draws from her bosom a sponge, perfectly black, and covers it with kisses). Dated: 1896. Medium: lithograph.
EditorialSoap and sponge boxes, Marked by C. Louis G?rard (1697?1759, master 1716), ca. 1739, French, Douai, Lille Mint, Silver, Each, H. 3-3/4 in. (9.5 cm.); Diam. 3-3/8 in. (8.6 cm.), Metalwork-Silver, Marked by C. Louis G?rard (1697?1759, master 1716), Match...
EditorialTHE NAVAL AND SUBMARINE ENGINEERING EXHIBITION AT ISLINGTON: 1. Sounding the Fog-Horn; 2. Model of the Yacht Formosa formerly Owned by the Prince of Wales; 3. Foster and Fleuss's Submarine and Mining Lamp; 4. A Sable Exhibitor: Contrivance to Prevent t...
EditorialLeaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book.
EditorialIcon with Virgin and the Christ Child, ca. 1500 or later, Russian or Greek, Ivory, Overall: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 5/16 in. (7.9 x 6.4 x 0.8 cm), Ivories, Enthroned images of the Virgin and the Christ Child appear in churches throughout the Byzantine era. Her...
EditorialSoap and sponge boxes, Marked by C. Louis G?rard (1697?1759, master 1716), ca. 1739, French, Douai, Lille Mint, Silver, Each, H. 3-3/4 in. (9.5 cm.); Diam. 3-3/8 in. (8.6 cm.), Metalwork-Silver, Marked by C. Louis G?rard (1697?1759, master 1716), Match...
EditorialBath Scraper, 12th?13th century, Attributed to Iran, Earthenware; unglazed, molded in relief, H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm), Ceramics, Prolonged exposure to water and steam in a hammam?s hot rooms loosens dead skin and forces impurities out of the body, which...
EditorialThe Crucifixion, ca. 1625?30, Oil on canvas, 48 3/4 ? 40 1/2 in. (123.8 ? 102.9 cm), Paintings, Pedro Orrente (Spanish, Murcia 1580?1645 Valencia), As recounted in the Gospel of Matthew 27:45-49, Christ has called out from the cross to God, and a bysta...
EditorialFragment of a terracotta kylix, Late Archaic, ca. 490 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, 13 in. (33 cm), Vases, The scene here takes place in the gymnasium, as indicated by the sponge, strigil (scraper), and aryballos (oil flask) on the wall. ...
EditorialSponge, Haliclona cinerea (Cancellated sponge, Spongia cancellata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialSponge, Spongionella pulchella (Spongia pulchella). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialBreadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea (Compact tubular sponge; Spongia compacta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialWomen of Venice dying their hair using a ?solana? (a wide brim hat with a hole in the centre), one with a sponge A, and one with comb in front of a mirror after Cesare Vecellio B, and wooden comb C. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Art...
EditorialMagnified image under a microscope of the fibres of a sponge 1, and two-tone taffeta fabric, with yellow weft and purple warp 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedr...
EditorialHechima or sponge cucumber flower, Luffa cylindrica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialMermaid's glove or finger sponge, Haliclona oculata. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1805.
EditorialFan sponge, Spongia flabelliformis. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1799. Most of the 1,064 illustrations of animals, birds, insects, crustaceans, fishes, marine life and ...
EditorialTHE NAVAL AND SUBMARINE ENGINEERING EXHIBITION AT ISLINGTON: 1. Sounding the Fog-Horn; 2. Model of the Yacht Formosa formerly Owned by the Prince of Wales; 3. Foster and Fleuss's Submarine and Mining Lamp; 4. A Sable Exhibitor: Contrivance to Prevent t...