EditorialThe Man of Sorrows and His Mother. Dated: c. 1500. Dimensions: plate: 9.6 x 6.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.) sheet: 13.6 x 9.7 cm (5 3/8 x 3 13/16 in.). Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in rose, blue, lilac, vermilion, mustard yellow, white, brown, and silver.
EditorialThe Wounds of Christ with the Symbols of the Passion. Dated: c. 1490. Dimensions: Overall: 12 x 8.1 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/16 in.) overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.). Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in vermilion, green, a...
EditorialChrist as the Man of Sorrows. Dated: c. 1500. Dimensions: sheet: 22.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.) overall (cofferet): 10 x 16 x 23.5 cm (3 15/16 x 6 5/16 x 9 1/4 in.). Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in vermilion, dark green, light blue and brown; g...
EditorialGlobemallow, Sphaeralcea miniata (Vermilion-flowered mallow, Malva miniata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialFuchsia heath, Epacris longiflora (Vermilion epacris, Epacris miniata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialVermilion aeschynanthus, Aeschynanthus miniatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialVermilion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubinus (Round-crested flycatcher, Muscicapa coronata). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellan...
EditorialSioux chief Shoo-de-ga-cha, Smoke, in buffalo robe outside a teepee 87 and his wife or squaw Hee-la'h-dee, Pure Fountain 88. Her arms and neck are tattooed by pricking with gunpowder and vermilion. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, ...
EditorialSioux men dancing the Scalp Dance after a victory. They wave scalps stretched on poles, brandish knives, pipes and tomahawks, their bodies decorated with vermilion and charcoal tattoos. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and ...
EditorialLipstick plant or vermilion aeschynanth, Aeschynanthus miniatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1846.
EditorialBeardtongue, Penstemon miniatus (Vermilion pentstemon, Pentstemon miniatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1847.
EditorialSioux chiefs: warrior Tehan-dee, Tobacco 92, chief of the Yanc-ton band Toh-ki-ee-to, Stone with Horns, with neck and arms tattooed in gunpowder and vermilion 93. Sioux daughter of Black Rock, Wi-looh-tah-eeh-tchah-ta-mah-nee, Red Thing that Touches in...
EditorialSioux brave and medicine man Hongs-kay-dee, the son of Shoo-de-ga-cha, Chief Smoke 90, with his skin tattooed vermilion, and one of his four young wives, Mong-shong-shaw, Bending Willow 89, in a deerskin dress and decorated buffalo robe. Handcoloured l...
EditorialLiubo players found in eastern China, Han dynasty, 1st-2nd century. The figures in this group are gambling. They are playing Liubo, a game thought to be popular among both mortals and immortals. The board is marked with divination symbols, and the game...