EditorialModel of a Longboat, Polychromed truss model on a standard. Smooth-edged double-belted bark, curved with almost flat sheer and flat mirror, disc in the prow, a forecourt, nine dulls and eight rails, and an open cabin with side dips and extra loose deaf...
EditorialModel of an Oared Gunboat, Hollowed out block model on a standard, one oar has been saved. Smooth-edged double-belt sloop, flat-bottomed with almost flat sheer, pointed hole with curved stern and straight falling stern. Simple rudder with a tiller that...
EditorialModel of a Launch, Polychromed truss model on a standard. Smooth-edged double-belted barkas, round truss with almost flat sheer and flat mirror, a forecourt, six dulls and five rails, an extra loose deaf in the bow, and an open cabin with side dips and...
EditorialA Man Dips His Hand into a Cauldron as Ladies of the Harem Stand in Amazement: A Page from a Manuscript of Religious History, c. 1600. India, Mughal, early 17th century. Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, text on verso; page: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16...
EditorialPsalm 113, with border decoration. Lower margin, a kitchen scene. On the left, an elderly bearded cook, perhaps representing John of Bridgford, Sir Geoffrey Luttrell's cook, dips a colander into one of three large cauldrons which are steaming over a lo...
EditorialChrist administers unction. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 88. Decorated borders with grotesques, including a bearded man, and an embracing man and woman with winged bodies. Marginal drawing illustrating v...
Editorial[Lower scene] In centre, a oval roofed oven with two openings containing pans for melting. One glassblower dips his long pipe into the molten mass, and the other is blowing. On the left is an extension for cooling the glass, and on the other side an as...
EditorialA woman dips a new born baby in a pond, a birth custom among the natives of Guinea, Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures),...