EditorialSir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg KCMG DSO (20 July 1869 – 21 April 1930) was a senior Canadian-born British Army officer and British Empire colonial administrator. He published a number of works on military topics and Africa. During the First World Wa...
EditorialStreevelliputtur [Srivilliputtur]. The large pyramidal tower at entrance. View looking towards entrance gopura of temple. This Gateway, which is considered one of the finest and best proportioned in Southern India, is well seen in this Photograph, whic...
EditorialMary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, after a painting of the times, 1560. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' "Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes" (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), Pari...
Editorial?????, Lotus Sutra, Chapters 12 and 14, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1667, Japan, Two handscrolls; gold, silver on indigo-dyed paper, a: 11 in. ? 14 ft. 10 15/16 in. (28 ? 454.5 cm), Paintings, The Lotus Sutra, the most popular of all Buddhist scripture...
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Sugar Refinery, plate 13, Artist, Publisher, After, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Jan Collaert I, Philips Galle, Netherlandish, Bruges 1523?1605 Florenc...
EditorialGold necklace with pendants of amphora and beads, ca. 1840?70, Italian or British, Gold, Other: 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm), Gold and Silver, Classical jewelry enjoyed great popularity in modern times and inspired the production of pieces that ranged from the ...
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Watermill, plate 10, Artist, Publisher, After, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Jan Collaert I, Philips Galle, Netherlandish, Bruges 1523?1605 Florence...
EditorialWoman's Mantle (lliclla), 17th?18th century, Peru, Peruvian, Camelid hair, H. 35 1/2 x W. 43 3/8 in. (90.2 x 110.2 cm), Textiles-Woven, Indigenous women in the Andes have continued to wear their traditional mantles, fastened by silver shawl pins, even ...
EditorialNew Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Olive Oil Press, plate 12, ca. 1600, Engraving, sheet: 10 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (27 x 20 cm), Prints, Jan Collaert I (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1530?1581 Antwerp), After Jan van der Straet,...
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], Amerigo Vespucci Discovering the Southern Cross with an Astrolabium, plate 18, Artist, Publisher, After, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Jan Collaert I, Philips Galle, Net...
Editorial?????, Lotus Sutra, Chapters 12 and 14, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1667, Japan, Two handscrolls; gold, silver on indigo-dyed paper, a: 11 in. ? 14 ft. 10 15/16 in. (28 ? 454.5 cm), Paintings, The Lotus Sutra, the most popular of all Buddhist scripture...
EditorialMary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, after a painting of the times, 1560. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' "Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes" (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), Pari...
EditorialDirham of Kai Khosrau II, Seljuq dynasty, AH 639 (1241-1242), Struck at Sivas (in modern Turkey). The Seljuq dynasty of Anatolia (1081-1307), also known as the Seljuqs of Rum, were a branch of the Great Seljuqs, based at their capital at Konya (modern ...
EditorialThe Royal Game of Ur, southern Iraq, 2600-2400 BCE. The board has twenty squares made of shell: five squares each have flower rosettes, eyes and circled dots. Two players competed to race their pieces from one end of the board to the other. The boards ...