EditorialPhotograph - Orion Nebula, Taken with the Great Melbourne Telescope, Victoria, 26 Feb 1883, Photograph of Orion Nebula, taken by Joseph Turner with the Great Melbourne Telescope on 26 Feb 1883, with an exposure of 4 minutes. In 1882 astronomers in Brit...
EditorialHead of a female figure, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 7/16 in. (4.2 x 3.6 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, Carved in the round, this female head was found in the Burnt Palace at Nim...
Editorial[The Great Wave, S?te], 1857, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.), Photographs, Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820?1884), The dramatic effects of sunlight, clouds, and water in Le Gray's seascapes stunned his cont...
EditorialLandscape with Cottage, ca. 1597?98, Woodcut; second state, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (11.4 x 14.6 cm), Prints, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, M?hlbracht 1558?1617 Haarlem), The Haarlem artist Hendrick Goltzius was apparently first drawn to the subje...
EditorialHead of a female figure, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 7/16 in. (4.2 x 3.6 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, Carved in the round, this female head was found in the Burnt Palace at Nim...
Editorial[The Great Wave, S?te], 1857, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.), Photographs, Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820?1884), The dramatic effects of sunlight, clouds, and water in Le Gray's seascapes stunned his cont...
EditorialEarly promotional portrait of American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, wearin a white shirt and jacket, in a double exposure of him playing the piano. 1935.