EditorialRoman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4, siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey towe...
EditorialRoman siege engines: siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey tower Sambucae 6, and battering ram on chains Aries 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children...
EditorialGallows ticket for the hanging of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker General, 18th century London underworld figure. Engraving from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.
EditorialStephen MacDaniel, thief-taker and publican at the Angel, Scroop's Court. Executed in the pillory in Holborn, 1754. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialFestive, scantily-clad mannequins in a vintage Cadillac, an annual Christmas display that sees many a selfie-taker stop at Robert Kimbrew’s home in Oklaunion, Texas, Dec. 8, 2020. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialSnuffbox, 1738?44, French, Paris, Gold, mother-of-pearl, Overall: 2 1/2 ? 1 13/16 ? 1 1/4 in. (6.4 ? 4.6 ? 3.2 cm), Metalwork-Gold and Platinum, The use of snuff became very fashionable in Europe during the eighteenth century. The affluent snuff-taker ...
EditorialGallows ticket for the hanging of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker General, 18th century London underworld figure. Engraving from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.
EditorialThomas Blee, thief taker. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialStephen MacDaniel, thief-taker and publican at the Angel, Scroop's Court. Executed in the pillory in Holborn, 1754. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialLodowick Campbell, Scottish thief-taker and convict, depicted with chains from a padlocked collar around his neck. Executed in Edinburgh. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Y...
EditorialRoman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4, siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey towe...
EditorialRoman siege engines: siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey tower Sambucae 6, and battering ram on chains Aries 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children...
EditorialSwearing an oath on the Bible, 15th century. The judge wears a crimson cap called a mortier, simar in gold brocade lined with ermine. The oath-taker wears a simar and hood, while the witness wears a short cape lined with marten fur, doublet, stockings,...