EditorialVein or Blood-letting Man. Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York. York, 1486, with additions to 1768. (Whole folio) An anatomical diagram of a male figure, with directions for bleeding at the different veins. Image taken from Guild Book of the Bar...
EditorialJar, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6-8, ca. 2323?2150 B.C., From Egypt, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), H. 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.), This bag-shaped jar owes more to vessel shapes in pottery than to the older tradition of stone vessels. Note how the artisan has skil...
EditorialFace attributed to Ptolemy II Philadelphos or a contemporary, Ptolemaic Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty, 285?246 B.C., From Egypt, Memphite Region, Heliopolis (Iunu; On), Near the obelisk, BSAE excavations 1912, Graywacke, H. 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.); W. 10.8 cm ...
Editorial?, ???, ??????, ?, Landscape after Wu Zhen, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1695, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 42 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. (108.6 x 51.4 cm), Paintings, Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642?1715), According to his inscription, Wang Yuanqi ...
EditorialRed vein Indian mallow, Abutilon pictum (Striated abutilon, Abutilon striatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, Lon...