EditorialSUMMER. The clouds are silver, in an azure sky; The hills lie basking in a sunny dream; The lapping warer coolly gurgles by, Where lies the fallen trunk athwart the stream. The harvestmen, beneath the barrack roof, From laden wagons store the golden gr...
EditorialJacqueline de la Grange, wife of Jean de Montagu, Grand Minister of France under Charles VI. She wears an escoffion hat with veil, and an armorial robe decorated with the coats of arms of her husband Montagu (eagles and azure cross) and herself (black ...
EditorialVarious-leaved lobelia, Lobelia heterophylla, azure-blue lobelia, L. caerulea, buck's-horn-leaved lobelia, L. coronopifolia, Kalm's lobelia, L. kalmii, ascending lobelia, L. erinus, campanula-like lobelia, L. campanuloides, yellow lobelia, L. lutea, an...
EditorialMr. Barlow's larkspur, Delphinium barlowii, mountain larkspur, D. montana, variable bee larkspur, D. sapphirinum, Mr. Menzies' larkspur, D. menziesii, and azure larkspur, D. azureum. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illust...
EditorialAzure-crowned hummingbird, Amazilia cyanocephala (Ornismya cyanocephala), male juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbir...
EditorialAgnes de Loisy, wife of Jean Chastelain de Terote, died 1358. She wears a hat with large ear pieces and veil, coat of arms (argent, lion azure) lined with ermine, over red damask embroidered robe. From her tomb in Orcamp Abbey. Handcoloured copperplate...
EditorialJean Chastelain de Terote, Lord of Honecourt, died 1315. He wears a suit of plate armour and chainmail, coat of arms (argent, lion azure), with gold belt, sword and dagger. From his tomb in Orcamp Abbey. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by L...
EditorialAzure convolvulus or morning glory, Ipomoea hederacea (Convolvulus nil). Handcolored copperplate drawn by James Sowerby from William Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," St. George's Crescent, London, 1792.
EditorialWine glass cooler-rinser or jam pot, Ol?rys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738, Tin-glazed earthenware, Slightly everted cylindrical form with pinched indentation at rim and two mascaron handles. White ground decorated with coat of arms surmounted b...
EditorialDesign for a Sedan Chair, Brush and yellow, brown, blue, purple, rose, and other colors of watercolor, pen and Chinese ink on paper, Shown in profile turned toward right with one bar. A pineapple stands on top of the vaulted roof which is decorated wit...
EditorialTree Fern, Jamaica, Frederic Edwin Church, American, 18261900, Brush and oil paint, graphite on cream paperboard, A central solitary palm tree stands with fronds fanned out against azure sky obscured by dense rosy clouds. From the foreground to the hor...
EditorialTea urn and base, Silver, (a) Ovid body with fluting at top and bottom. Beaded vertical scroll handles fastened to body with twin leaves and berries. Fluted and foliated spigot with bone handle. Engraved coat of arms: Parter per fess, gules, two mullet...
EditorialWoman and Son under an Umbrella, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1769, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 27 x 4 1/8 in. (68.6 x 10.5 cm), Prints, Isoda Koryusai (Japanese, 1735?ca. 1790), Koryusai's light-hearted pair are accompani...
EditorialAnne, Dauphine of Auvergne, 1358-1416. She wears a crown, her hair in plaits, and armorial robe with blazons of Bourbon at left (azure, gold fleurs de lys, red band) and of her family at right (azure dolphin on gold field, argent dolphin on red field)....
EditorialAdd. 22689, ff.30-31 Mu Gong and Immortal officials at the White Jade Terrace. A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. China, 1750. Mu Gong was ' born into the azure sea out of the confusion there were people or living things ' and establishe...
EditorialSUMMER. The clouds are silver, in an azure sky; The hills lie basking in a sunny dream; The lapping warer coolly gurgles by, Where lies the fallen trunk athwart the stream. The harvestmen, beneath the barrack roof, From laden wagons store the golden gr...