EditorialPortrait of Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings, 1688-1752. Copperplate engraving after a portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour from Antoine-Joseph Dezallier dArgenvilles Abrege de la vie des plu...
EditorialFragments, Medium: silk Technique: combination of two structures; satin plu twill, Bands of white foliage forming lozenges which contain plant forms, 17th century, woven textiles, Fragments.
Editorialstoplap, Geertrui Johanna Loeber, 1850, cotton, silk, Stoplap made of cotton with silk thread. With a well thought-out layout, so that as many variations as possible on the 3 main bindings could be practiced when stopping. The holes of the actually plu...
EditorialJean-Sylvain Mauri or Jean-Sifrein Maury (1746-1817), French cardinal, archbishop and bishop of Montefiascone. Vignette shows him almost hanged from a lamp-iron by a mob and replying Eh, monsieur, quand vous m'aurez mis a la lanterne, y verrez-vous plu...
EditorialPortrait of Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings, 1688-1752. Copperplate engraving after a portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour from Antoine-Joseph Dezallier dArgenvilles Abrege de la vie des plu...
EditorialArmy of the wind, cutting the enemy line, Warships in combat, cutting off individual enemy ships to fight them one by one, Pl. 28, Ozanne: Marine militaire ou recueil des diff?rens vaisseaux qui servent ? la guerre: suivis des manoeuvres qui ont le plu...
EditorialLacus on Mount Gotthard, Gotthard Pass with sources of the Tessin and Reuss rivers, which are represented as lakes filled by angels, p. 420 (vol. 2), 1730, Johann Georg Altmann: L'?tat et les d?lices de la Suisse, en forme de relation critique, par plu...
EditorialBern to the Alps, View of Aare and Bern, background: Alps, Signed: Dessin? par Bury, grav? by Weber, pl. 44, p. 96, Bury (dessin?); Weber, Lukas (grav?);, 1841, Hans Felix Leuthold: Cinquante vues pittoresques de la Suisse. Contenant les points les plu...
EditorialWonderful stones found in the mountains of Switzerland, on everything in the canton of Schwits, Various fossils from the Swiss Alps, p. 446 (vol. 2), 1730, Johann Georg Altmann: L'?tat et les d?lices de la Suisse, en forme de relation critique, par plu...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a sword-wielding angel leading the devil before the Virgin Mary, with a caption reading, ‘Cy comaunde n[ost]re dame a langle de fere venyr devaunt ly ly diables quout ensi menee lermite que soleit estre sun servaunt a dolorouse h...
EditorialLa Poinciniene de la Chine. Chinese poinciana, Delonix regia, and Chinese cuckoo or red-billed blue magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plu...
EditorialWall painting of cupids playing, fishing, sailing from a cubiculum in the House of the Restaurant (Casa di Lupanare Piccolo) at 14, Regio IX, Insula V. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn?s Les Plu...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a sword-wielding angel leading the devil before the Virgin Mary, with a caption reading, ‘Cy comaunde n[ost]re dame a langle de fere venyr devaunt ly ly diables quout ensi menee lermite que soleit estre sun servaunt a dolorouse h...
EditorialLa Poinciniene de la Chine. Chinese poinciana, Delonix regia, and Chinese cuckoo or red-billed blue magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plu...
EditorialWall painting of cupids playing, fishing, sailing from a cubiculum in the House of the Restaurant (Casa di Lupanare Piccolo) at 14, Regio IX, Insula V. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn?s Les Plu...