EditorialPhotograph - Decorated Medical Ward, Abbassia, Egypt, Nurse A. E. Williams (nee Cocking), World War I, Dec 1916, Photograph identified as a medical ward in Abbassia, a suburb of Cairo, taken during World War I, in December 1916. During World I a hospit...
EditorialPair of wheellock rifles with spanner from Cornelis Tromp Radslotbuks from Cornelis Tromp, Radslotbuks or rudder. A hunting weapon with drawn barrels of small caliber, equipped with a hair puller (Stecher) and precision visor, intended for shooting sea...
EditorialBobbin lace collar made of gray wool, Bobbin lace collar - Dutch lace - for which undyed and hand-spun wool of a gray-colored sheep is used. Semi-circular model. The repeating pattern consists of radii-placed webs that are alternately made in linen and...
EditorialPair of wheellock rifles with spanner from Cornelis Tromp Radslotbuks from Cornelis Tromp, Radslotbuks or rudder. A hunting weapon with drawn barrels of small caliber, equipped with a hair puller (Stecher) and precision visor, intended for shooting sea...
EditorialSaint Catherine of Alexandria, Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 40 1/4 in. (127.6 x 102.2 cm), Paintings, Workshop of Bernardo Cavallino (Italian, Naples 1616?1656 Naples), Saint Catherine, a fourth-century Christian martyr, is shown with the spiked wheel used ...
EditorialLandscape with a Battle between Two Rams, ca. 1640, Oil on canvas, 68 1/4 x 97 5/8 in. (173.4 x 248 cm), Paintings, Jan Miel (Flemish, Beveren 1599?1664 Turin), This animated scene stands in opposition to the grand, classical tradition represented by P...
EditorialTerracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm), Vases, Obverse, the wine god, Dionysos; reverse, reveler. Myson was a contemporary of the Kleophrades and B...
EditorialTerracotta kylix (drinking cup), Archaic, ca. 510 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm), Vases, Komast (reveler) with skyphos (deep drinking cup) and oinochoe (jug). Among the very early red-figure artists who specialized in...
EditorialSide chair, ca. 1880, British, Oak with caned seat, Overall (confirmed): 34 3/4 ? 17 ? 19 in. (88.3 ? 43.2 ? 48.3 cm), Woodwork-Furniture, The chair was designed for the London Law Courts by the English architect, George Edmund Street, a leading practi...
EditorialNew Mexican: Our Lady of Protection (Nuestra Se?ora del Patrocinio), Pedro Antonio Fresquis, New Mexican, c. 1815, Water-based paint on wood panel, Painted in New Mexico, this small panel is a retablo, or a religious work meant for private devotion in ...