EditorialWilliam Blake, English, 1757-1827, So Turned His Talons on His Comrades, ca. 1826, engraving printed in black ink on chine coll?, Plate: 11 ? 13 7/8 inches (27.9 ? 35.2 cm).
EditorialOpening of St. John's gospel. Initial 'I' with interlace and acanthus decoration. St. John is seated in front of a desk with a book on it, and an ink-horn attached to the leg. The evangelist is writing the opening verse with a quill, and has a knife in...
EditorialFalcon. Original inscriptions: ‘B. 1. No. 20. Doubtful’ Stylized rendition of a falcon variety. It is feeding off a dead bird in its talons. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 29/4.
EditorialA phoenix plucks at vegetation with it beak and talons. At right it lies in the flames, ready to be reborn from the ashes. Illustration from a page of text from a Bestiary or moralized natural history in Latin. The principal source is a translation of ...
Editorial"He whets his talons on your head." An eagle attacking a man in his bed. Tails with a Twist. The verses by “Belgian Hare.” The pictures by E. T. Reed. London : Edwin Arnold, [1898]. See image 1876_a_30_p33 for accompanying poem. Source: 1876.a.30 p...
EditorialOpening of St. John's gospel. Initial 'I' with interlace and acanthus decoration. St. John is seated in front of a desk with a book on it, and an ink-horn attached to the leg. The evangelist is writing the opening verse with a quill, and has a knife in...
EditorialPsalm 81; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 80. Psalm 81 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration with three grotesques. In the outer margin, one with a male hooded peasant's...
EditorialFalcon. Original inscriptions: ‘B. 1. No. 20. Doubtful’ Stylized rendition of a falcon variety. It is feeding off a dead bird in its talons. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 29/4.
EditorialA griffin Griphes, which has the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, grabbing a horse in its talons. . Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. England, S. (Salisbury?). Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambr...
EditorialThe Inferno according to Dante; in the centre Lucifer who holds damned souls and in his talons seven kings, surrounded by damned souls being tortured by devils, after a fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa.
EditorialAmulet with a figure of Lamashtu, designed to ward off evil, from Mesopotamia, around 800 BCE. Lamashtu has the head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts and the talons of a bird. She holds snakes in her hands and stands on her sacred animal...
EditorialThe Inferno according to Dante; in the centre Lucifer who holds damned souls and in his talons seven kings, surrounded by damned souls being tortured by devils, after a fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa.
EditorialTerracotta jug, Cypro-Archaic I, ca. 750?600 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta, H. 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm), Vases, Birds represent a frequent motif on this class of jugs with so-called free-field decoration. The variety in the birds' articulation is noteworthy, ...
EditorialFurniture plaque: deer, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemh?y?k, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 1.5 x 2.5 x 1.44 in. (3.81 x 6.35 x 3.66 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This p...
EditorialLectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1301, with later additions, Made in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy, Italian, Carrera marble with addition of Pentelic marble, Overall: 27 3/4 x 24 3/16 x 16in. (70.5 x 61....
EditorialFurniture plaque: wing of a hawk, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemh?y?k, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 4 3/8 x 2 1/4 x 3 13/16 in. (11.1 x 5.7 x 9.7 cm), Ivory/Bone-...
EditorialA phoenix plucks at vegetation with it beak and talons. At right it lies in the flames, ready to be reborn from the ashes. Illustration from a page of text from a Bestiary or moralized natural history in Latin. The principal source is a translation of ...
EditorialAmulet with a figure of Lamashtu, designed to ward off evil, from Mesopotamia, around 800 BCE. Lamashtu has the head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts and the talons of a bird. She holds snakes in her hands and stands on her sacred animal...