EditorialThe Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same w...
EditorialThe Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same w...
EditorialThe Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah: the wise, the wicked, the simple and he who does not know how to ask. Leipnik Haggadah. Altona, 1740. Source: Sloane 3173, f.6v. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialThe Four Sons of the Haggadah (from right to left): the wise son, the wicked son, the simple son and the one who does not know how to ask . Passover Haggadah. Hamburg and Altona, 1740. . Source: Add. 18724, f.7v. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialThe Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same w...
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...
EditorialAn emblematical miniature showing it is necessary to know how to handle things, 'to rub people up the right way'. This is based on the moral satire 'Roman de Fauvel' of Gervais Du Bus, where those who curry a fauveau are flatterers and opportunists. Th...
EditorialThe Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah: the wise, the wicked, the simple and he who does not know how to ask. Leipnik Haggadah. Altona, 1740. Source: Sloane 3173, f.6v. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialMap of London. This 1593 map is the direct forebear of the modern London A-Z. This copy comes from the 1653 edition of John Norden's 'Speculum Britainiae' (literally: 'Mirror of Britain'), re-issued after Norden's death and sold by Peter Stent of Newg...
EditorialThe Four Sons of the Haggadah (from right to left): the wise son, the wicked son, the simple son and the one who does not know how to ask . Passover Haggadah. Hamburg and Altona, 1740. . Source: Add. 18724, f.7v. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialViewing the Sunset over Ryogoku Bridge from the Onmaya Embankment (Onmayagashi yori Ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei).
EditorialPASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF A SUBALTERN: LEFT IMAGE: OF COURSE I TUMBLE THE FIRST BALL I GO TO IN UNIFORM, AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET UP GRACEFULLY, RIGHT IMAGE: IT IS A MISTAKE TO RETIRE EARLY ON A "BIG NIGHT".