EditorialClosure of the concerns of St. Eorcenwald under the same barrow, Grave of Erkenwald, signed: After Hollar; Engraved by W. Find; Published by Lackington & Co. and Longman & Co., Pl. XXX, p. 74, Hollar, Wenzel (drawing); Finden, W. (engraving); Lackingto...
EditorialNomadic Peoples. Siberia. Scythian Kurgan. Reconstruction of costumes, based on the finds from the main burial of barrow Arzhan-2. Culture of Tuva. Royal necropolis. 7th-6th century BC. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialPick or root digger, North America (Alaska, Point Barrow), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Point Barrow), Nephrite, H. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm); W. 1 in. (2.5 cm); D. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm), Jade.
EditorialMalurus leucopterus, Print, The white-winged fairywren (Malurus leucopterus) is a species of passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It lives in the drier parts of Central Australia; from central Queensland and South Australia across...
EditorialFolding chair in ash wood. Second half of 1400 BC. Bronze Age. Guldhoj barrow, Southern Jutland. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialA Chinese on horseback dressed out for a storm'. Horseman wearing a cloak and a cowl under his cap in profile to right, with woman sitting on the ground eating from a bowl in the foreground and sailing ships, barges and river in the background. Pasted...
EditorialWhalebone plaque, Viking, 9th century. Whalebone plaque decorated with a pair of openwork horses' heads at the top and incised with ring-and-dot and geometric designs. It is thought that these plaques were used as boards for smoothing folds and seams i...
EditorialA view of Hanover Square looking south, with a railed garden in the centre and a church beyond. Figures, a carriage and men on horseback can be seen in the foreground, including a woman pushing a barrow and a boy holding a dead rabbit on the left. To t...
EditorialThe turnpike is in the middle distance, with St. Paul's in the background, across fields. The chief interest is in the foreground figures. A 'cit', resembling John Gilpin, gallops over a sow and pigs, losing his hat and wig. A horse rears, upsetting a ...
EditorialMandarin on horseback. A Mandarin wearing a cape over his tunic and boots rides to left on a paved road carrying two scrolls across his shoulders, with two assistants and their horses standing by the road and figures watching from the fields in the bac...