EditorialPlate with scene from 'Les Oies de Fr?re Philippe', ca. 1745, Chinese, made for export, Porcelain, Overall (confirmed): 7/8 ? 9 ? 9 in. (2.2 ? 22.9 ? 22.9 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, Decoration after Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690?1743 Paris),...
EditorialThe Russian bear and her invincible rider encountering the British legion, engraving 1791, Potemkin, with sword raised overhead and wearing hussar's uniform, riding Catherine the Great who is dressed as a black bear, they approach George III and his mi...
EditorialA Wolf Fighting with a Ram and a Lion with a Scepter before a Group of Animals, A Hunter with Dogs Encountering a Shepherd with his Flock and Dogs as a Wolf Lays Nearby, Unknown, Trier (probably), Germany, third quarter of 15th century, Pen and black i...
EditorialJacques Rousseau, French, 1630 - 1693, Tobias and the Angel Encountering the Fish, mid-17th century, pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on laid paper, Sheet: 9 ? 7 3/4 inches (22.9 ? 19.7 cm).
EditorialInferno: Encountering Cerberus; Virgil gathers clods of earth to throw into his mouth. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 943, f.12. Language: Italian, Latin.
EditorialRāma, Lak?ma?a and Sugrīva are seated on a rocky eminence. Sugrīva divides his vast forces into four and sends them out to search the four quarters for Sītā. To each troop leader he describes the terrain that they will be encountering on their...
EditorialViews of places and coastline of the newly discovered Americas. Ships of European fleets arriving and encountering the natives. . Germany. Source: C.115.h.3.(1) after 108. Language: Latin.
EditorialViews of places and coastline of the newly discovered Americas. Ships of European fleets arriving and encountering the natives. . Florid? Promontorium ad quod Galli appellunt ... Frankfurt, 1591. Source: G.6632 plate or page 1. Language: Latin.
EditorialRāma, Lak?ma?a and Sugrīva are seated on a rocky eminence. Sugrīva divides his vast forces into four and sends them out to search the four quarters for Sītā. To each troop leader he describes the terrain that they will be encountering on their...
EditorialAlexander encountering blemmyae; Alexander encountering horse-like creatures; the burial of Bucephalus; Alexander with caladrius birds and ill people; Alexander encountering a two-headed serpent, elephants, and other beasts. Shrewsbury Talbot Book of R...
EditorialMiniature of Alexander encountering a naked and houseless tribe (the gymnosophists). Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre). France, Central (Paris); c.1420. Source: Royal 20 B. XX, f.60. Langua...
EditorialMiniature of Dante, with the sun of love on his chest, encountering nuns and naked men, including the spirits of Piccarda and Constance, from the Paradiso, Canto III. Divina Commedia. Italy, N. (Tuscany, Siena?); between 1444 and c. 1450. Source: Yates...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a grotesque knight encountering two snails. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.148. Language: Latin, with French image captions.
EditorialMiniature shows Meliadus, on horseback, with followers, encountering a group of knights. Roman du Roy Meliadus de Leonnoys. Italy [Naples]; circa 1352. Source: Add. 12228, f.247v. Language: French.
EditorialMiniature of Alexander, at a river crossing, encountering women armed with maces. Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre). France, Central (Paris); c.1420. Source: Royal 20 B. XX, f.55v. Language...
EditorialAlexander receiving gifts of an elephant and birds; prognostics of the caladrius birds; Alexander encountering two-headed serpents; Alexander encountering beasts with eight eyes and eights legs. Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ys...
EditorialMiniature of Alexander encountering strange women of the forest. Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre). France, Central (Paris); c.1420. Source: Royal 20 B. XX, f.58. Language: French.
EditorialMiniature of Dante and Beatrice encountering the spirit of Cunizza da Romano. Divina Commedia. Italy, N. (Tuscany, Siena?); between 1444 and c. 1450. Source: Yates Thompson 36, f.144. Language: Italian.
EditorialViews of places and coastline of the newly discovered Americas. Ships of European fleets arriving and encountering the natives. . Germany. Source: C.115.h.3.(1) after 108. Language: Latin.
EditorialAlexander encountering women living in water. Roman d'Alexandre in prose, with lacunae. Netherlands, S.; 1st quarter of the 14th century. Source: Harley 4979 , f.68. Language: French.
EditorialRichard II, disguised in a priest's cowl, encountering the soldiers of the Earl of Northumberland on the road to Chester. La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II). France, Central (Paris), c. 1401 - c. 1405. S...
EditorialShams i Tabriz and dervishes. Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. Shiraz, Iran, 1590-1600. Shams i Tabriz on horseback and a companion on a mule. encountering dervishes in a landscape. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of...
EditorialIllustrated frontispiece with symbolic imagery, and in the background, Europeans can be seen encountering native American people. Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan (9 June 1666 – prior to 1716) served in the French military in Canada where he traveled ...
EditorialMiniature of travellers encountering the River of Badashan. Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances. France, Central (Paris); c. 1340 (after 1333). Source: Royal 19 D. I, f.72v. Language:...
EditorialInferno: Encountering Cerberus; Virgil gathers clods of earth to throw into his mouth. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 943, f.12. Language: Italian, Latin.
EditorialRāma, Lak?ma?a and Sugrīva are seated on a rocky eminence. Sugrīva divides his vast forces into four and sends them out to search the four quarters for Sītā. To each troop leader he describes the terrain that they will be encountering on their...
EditorialAlexander battling against giant men; Alexander encountering blemmyae (men with heads on their torsos); Alexander encountering sheep-headed dragons. Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romance...
EditorialViews of places and coastline of the newly discovered Americas. Ships of European fleets arriving and encountering the natives. . Florid? Promontorium ad quod Galli appellunt ... Frankfurt, 1591. Source: G.6632 plate or page 1. Language: Latin.
EditorialLife of the Buddha: Abandoning Palace Life, Muromachi period (1392?1573), early 15th century, Japan, Section of a wall panel mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, 29 1/2 x 43 7/8 in. (75 x 111.5 cm), Paintings, This scroll depicts ...
EditorialPlate with scene from 'Les Oies de Fr?re Philippe', ca. 1745, Chinese, made for export, Porcelain, Overall (confirmed): 7/8 ? 9 ? 9 in. (2.2 ? 22.9 ? 22.9 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, Decoration after Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690?1743 Paris),...
EditorialGiuseppe Acerbi and others on a Finnish boat encountering Sami people on the river Rostijocki (Lapland). A noble woman moves forward to welcome them, while others grill fish on a fire. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferra...
EditorialThe Russian bear and her invincible rider encountering the British legion, engraving 1791, Potemkin, with sword raised overhead and wearing hussar's uniform, riding Catherine the Great who is dressed as a black bear, they approach George III and his mi...
EditorialA MORNING RIDE IN ATHENS, GREECE, And in this sorry plight, I re-enter Athens, and make the best of my way to my hotel, encountering on the way thither, of course, all my most valued acquaintances, and exalting mirth and interest on all sides, engravin...
EditorialThe Russian bear and her invincible rider encountering the British legion, engraving 1791, Potemkin, with sword raised overhead and wearing hussar's uniform, riding Catherine the Great who is dressed as a black bear, they approach George III and his mi...