EditorialScops zorca, Print, Scop, A scop was a poet as represented in Old English poetry. The scop is the Old English counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that "skald" was applied to historical persons, and scop is used, for the mo...
EditorialLepadogaster bimaculatus, Print, Lepadogaster is a genus of clingfishes native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean extending into the Mediterranean Sea. Lepadogaster belongs to class Actinopterygii. This means that they share many of the same characteristics...
EditorialScops zorca, Print, Scop, A scop was a poet as represented in Old English poetry. The scop is the Old English counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that "skald" was applied to historical persons, and scop is used, for the mo...
EditorialSialia wilsonii, Print, The bluebirds are a group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the order of Passerines in the genus Sialia of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas. They...
EditorialPolyborus tharus, Print, Caracara is a genus in the family Falconidae and the subfamily Polyborinae. This genus consists of two extant species, the northern and southern crested caracara, and one extinct species, the Guadalupe caracara. The only visibl...
EditorialPolyborus tharus, Print, Caracara is a genus in the family Falconidae and the subfamily Polyborinae. This genus consists of two extant species, the northern and southern crested caracara, and one extinct species, the Guadalupe caracara. The only visibl...
EditorialJust the Difference, from Puck. Joseph Keppler; American, 1838-1894. Date: 1880. Dimensions: 292 x 470 mm (image); 307 x 475 mm (sheet). Color lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States.
EditorialO, What A Difference In The Morning!. Unknown Artist; American, 19th century. Date: 1892. Dimensions: 132 x 115 mm. Lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States.
EditorialThe "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1.500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling. Wil...
EditorialThe "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1.500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling. Wil...
EditorialA Man Saved Against His Will. "- But I am telling you that I know how to swim and I could have pulled myself out of the water without the help of this gentleman! - That makes no difference.... the law is quite clear... you must pay 25 Francs to your re...
EditorialJust the Difference, from Puck. Joseph Keppler; American, 1838-1894. Date: 1880. Dimensions: 292 x 470 mm (image); 307 x 475 mm (sheet). Color lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States.
EditorialO, What A Difference In The Morning!. Unknown Artist; American, 19th century. Date: 1892. Dimensions: 132 x 115 mm. Lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States.
EditorialThe Pedestrian Hobbies, or the Difference of Going Up and Down Hill. Attributed to William Heath (English, 1794-1840); published by Thomas Tegg (English, 1776-1845). Date: 1819. Dimensions: 217 ? 310 mm (image); 227 ? 321 mm (sheet, trimmed within plat...
EditorialA bird's-eye view of extensive formal gardens and an Italianate house; fields and trees surrounding the house and gardens; hills and forest land in the distance. Title inscribed in ink below image. Title contains a coat of arms and the Perceval motto '...
EditorialA View of the Mansion House at Turnham Green. A bird's-eye view of extensive formal gardens and an Italianate house; fields and trees surrounding the house and gardens; hills and forest land in the distance. Title inscribed in ink in a decorative shiel...
EditorialLe bon Esprit. Decorated front cover. . Le bon Esprit. (De la nature de l’esprit, et de sa bonte en ge?ne?ral: De la difference des Esprits, et de leur bonte?. 1671. Binding . De la nature de l’esprit, et de sa bonte en ge?ne?ral: De la differ...
EditorialImpeachment Ticket for the Trial of W-rr-n H-st-ngs Esqr. 1788. Gillray bases his satirical ticket on Sayers' composition (see P3324). Gillray often appropriated Sayers' work for different political ends, even, as here, to the extent of including Sayer...
EditorialPortrait presume de Benvenuto Cellini-Presumed portrait of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571). Florence, mid-16th. The porphyry on which the portrait is painted, may be the result of the debate, in Florence of the 16th, about the difference in durability of...
EditorialThe Entombment, ca. 1654, Etching, drypoint, and engraving; second state of four, Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. (21 x 16 cm), Prints, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606?1669 Amsterdam), The startling difference between this impression and t...
EditorialSmallsword, ca. 1650?60, probably Paris, French, probably Paris, Steel, gold, wood, copper alloy, L. 41 in. (104.1 cm); L. of blade 34 1/2 in. (87.5 cm), Swords, While it was typical in Europe from at least the Middle Ages for a nobleman to wear a swor...
EditorialTHE REBELLION IN THE SUDAN, WITH BAKER PASHA'S REINFORCEMENTS: FROM SUEZ TO SUAKIM BY THE RED SEA, 1883: 1. A Turk's Idea of a One-Finger Peg. 2. Our Red Sea Pilot. 3. A Slight Difference of Opinion Between Turks and Arabs. 4. Rejected Advances. 5. "Th...
EditorialHigh Point, North Carolina - Housing. Homes of furniture workers in the same district often vary greatly - note difference on same street - High Point, North Carolina, 1936, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as ...
EditorialPortrait presume de Benvenuto Cellini-Presumed portrait of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571). Florence, mid-16th. The porphyry on which the portrait is painted, may be the result of the debate, in Florence of the 16th, about the difference in durability of...