EditorialLatona and the Lycian Peasants Tapestry with the history of Latona and the Lycian farmers, from the Diana series The histories of Diana (series title), Tapestry with the Lycian farmers who refuse Latona water, signed FRANCISCVS SPIRINGIVS, from the ser...
EditorialFive scenes from classical mythology, Five glasses with scenes from classical mythology in a wooden setting. The glass on the far left: Orpheus plays on a Renaissance violin, around him are a deer and two dogs listening. The glass to the right of it: m...
EditorialSpelling Stellaebur GI outside of the citadel Vraniae thirst, Illustration of the 17th century design by Stjernenborg, Fig. 25, p. 105, 1602, Tycho Brahe: Tychonis Brahe Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Noribergae [N?rnberg]: apud Levinum Hulsium, 1602.
EditorialMoses strikes water from the rock, Moses stands with a raised staff to the right of the waterfall, which is pouring out of the rock. Behind him a man bending over, drinking, on the left a woman kneeling, who catches one of the two rays in a bowl. Behin...
EditorialHe Feared Thirst, plate eighteen from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 297 x 240 mm (image); 300 x 247 mm (plate); 750 x 555 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove p...
EditorialTurning Point of Thirst. Victor Brauner; Romanian, 1903-1966. Date: 1934. Dimensions: 50.5 x 59 cm (19 7/8 x 23 1/4 in.). Oil on canvas with painted frame. Origin: Romania.
EditorialTurning Point of Thirst. Victor Brauner; Romanian, 1903-1966. Date: 1934. Dimensions: 50.5 x 59 cm (19 7/8 x 23 1/4 in.). Oil on canvas with painted frame. Origin: Romania.
EditorialIn the land of thirst and fear, plate 26 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1945. Dimensions: 414 ? 583 mm (image/plate); 505 ? 653 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialIn the land of thirst and fear, plate 26 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1945. Dimensions: 414 ? 583 mm (image/plate); 505 ? 653 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialHe Feared Thirst, plate eighteen from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 297 x 240 mm (image); 300 x 247 mm (plate); 750 x 555 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove p...
EditorialTurning Point of Thirst. Victor Brauner; Romanian, 1903-1966. Date: 1934. Dimensions: 50.5 x 59 cm (19 7/8 x 23 1/4 in.). Oil on canvas with painted frame. Origin: Romania.
EditorialThe goat, sent in answer to their prayers, saved Humay and Rashnavad from thirst. Darabnama. India, c.1580-1585. Source: Or. 4615, f.106v. Language: Persian.
EditorialComrades Xmas number. "The spectre of the lighthouse". "Ho ! Ho mortals. I thirst for souls". Comrades. The boys' champion paper. London, 1886. Source: C.140.a.30a pape opposite 224.
EditorialThe goat, sent in answer to their prayers, saved Humay and Rashnavad from thirst. Darabnama. India, c.1580-1585. Source: Or. 4615, f.106v. Language: Persian.
EditorialDagger, grip and blade, 16th century; guard, hallmarked for 1774?89, Turkish, Steel, ivory, gold, silver, L. 12 1/4 in. (31.12 cm); Wt. 6 oz. (175 g); blade L. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), Daggers, The green-stained ivory grip is carved with a delicacy that re...
EditorialRabelais, FranA?ois (La DeviniE?re, c.1494-Paris, 1553). French writer. Gargantua. Engraving in "The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel " (1534). GARGANTUA FIRST WORDS AFTER THEIR BIRTH: I THIRST".
EditorialDagger, grip and blade, 16th century; guard, hallmarked for 1774?89, Turkish, Steel, ivory, gold, silver, L. 12 1/4 in. (31.12 cm); Wt. 6 oz. (175 g); blade L. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), Daggers, The green-stained ivory grip is carved with a delicacy that re...
EditorialRabelais, FranA?ois (La DeviniE?re, c.1494-Paris, 1553). French writer. Gargantua. Engraving in "The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel " (1534). GARGANTUA FIRST WORDS AFTER THEIR BIRTH: I THIRST".
EditorialA paper making workshop, Genroku-period, Japan, c1688-c1704. To the right are the boards used for drying the paper and three people involved in this process. Inside the workshop a man leans over a vat to stretch a sheet and to his right the owner break...