EditorialAngels Swinging Censers, ca. 1170, Made in Troyes, French, Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint, and lead, 18 1/2 x 17 5/16 in. (47 x 44 cm), Glass-Stained, The stained glass produced for the Collegiate Church of Saint-?tienne in Troyes during the late twel...
EditorialPrisoner, late 16th?early 17th century, Italian, probably Rome, Gilt bronze, Height: 5 in. (12.7 cm), Sculpture-Bronze, The elgant contrapposto, elongation, and refinement of details are strongly suggestive of an artist in the stylistic wake of Gugliel...
EditorialDish with the story of 'Hob in the Well', ca. 1755, British, Chelsea, Soft-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Length: 8 in. (20.3 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, Identified by the Chelsea factory as 'Hob in the Well,' the the...
EditorialWake robin or stinking benjamin, Trillium erectum (rhomboidal trillium, Trillium rhomboideum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist,...
EditorialJohnny asleep at the mast head. Two sailors climb the rigging to wake him. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by W. Read after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Alfred Burton's The Adventures of Johnny Newcombe in the Navy, Simpkin, London, 1818.
EditorialSpain. Madrid. The King Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) lying in repose in the Royal Palace of El Pardo. The widowed Queen Maria Cristina (1858-1929) and other personalities have a wake over his corpse. Engraving. Colored.
EditorialFrance. Amelie-les-Bains. The Spanish noble and general Domingo Dulce Garay, 1st Marquis of Castell-Florite (1808-1869), lying in repose. The people have a wake over his corpse. Engraving by Sadurni y Moracho. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1870.
EditorialEgypt. Funeral wake of a treasurer official. Limestone with remains of polychrome. From the Necropolis of Abydos. XIX century B.C. Middle Kingdom. It represents the deceased sitting at a table with various food offering and jerogi_ficas inscriptions. T...
EditorialCuckow-pint or wake robin, Arum maculatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialSamuel Daniel, Groom of his Majesty's Privy Chamber, poet and author of the masque, the Tethys Festival or The Queenes Wake for Queen Elizabeth I, Whitehall, 1610. Copperplate engraving from William Richardson's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biograp...
EditorialA drunken brawl at an Irish wake in St. Giles slum. The Wake, or last appearance of Teddy O'Rafferty, a scene in the Holy Land. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blac...
EditorialA war president. Progressive democracy; N. Currier (Firm),; [New York : N. Currier], c1848.; 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 33.8 x 42.7 cm.; A caricature of Democratic candidate Lewis Cass, a general in the War of 1812, suggesting that his ...
EditorialNative American funeral ceremony (Canada): mourners smoke tobacco pipes at a wake for a corpse bedecked with cape, hat, spear and quiver. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804....
EditorialFuneral in Peguan, Kingdom of Burma. The king's corpse is burnt on a gilded barge, while mourners dance and sing for two days in the wake. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804...
EditorialWake-robin or stinking benjamin, Trillium erectum, native to America. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Stanghi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and publi...
EditorialCanadian Indian native funeral ceremony: mourners smoke tobacco pipes at a wake for a body bedecked with cape, hat, spear and quiver. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Comp...
EditorialThe Last Judgement, Voronet Church, detail: Christ Judge in the upper register, his throne below. From the throne descends the stream of hellfire which awaits the damned. Angels blow trumpets like Romanian shepherds' Alphorns to wake the dead.
EditorialRed-figured bell-crater from Apulia: Apollo purifies Orestes with the blood of a piglet. Orestes still holds the dagger with which he has killed his mother. Klitaimnestra tries to wake the sleeping Furies. (Aischylos, Eumenides). 380 BCE; H: 48,7cm Cp 710.