EditorialWomen with flowers in a room, In a richly decorated room with an ornamental fireplace with a flower vase, there are five women in seventeenth-century clothing. Four women are sitting at the table while the fifth already shows a flower standing to the o...
EditorialSaint Ambrose (c. 340-397). Archbishop of Milan and one of the four original doctors of the Church. St. Ambrose excommunicating the Roman Emperor Theodosius I (347-395) for the massacre of 7,000 persons at Thessalonica in 390, after the murder of the R...
EditorialDish with Figures on Horseback, wood, paper, paint, lacquer, Oblong lobed tray with molded edge, of painted wood. Engraved decoupage of four persons on horseback, and a standing woman and child at center. On the rim, chinoiserie and an elephant., possi...
EditorialIllustration to 'Pamela: or, virtue rewarded.'. Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded. In a series of letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: and afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure and quality ... In four volum...
EditorialMatthew Buckinger, German performer who married four times and had 11 children, died 1722. Engraving by R. Grave from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.