EditorialEXCLUSIVE: ?Mum don?t drop me!? Endangered Asiatic lioness is met with protests as she dangles her cub by it?s leg while on a walk in Gir National Park, India
EditorialFragment of a Carved Relief from a Palace Wall, 668 BC-627 BC Iraq, Nineveh h522 x w285 x d26 mm, Flat limestone slab showing Assyrian lancer advancing left into reeds by the side of a marsh of pool., Asia, Western Asiatic, Armour, Middle East, Archite...
EditorialRyot or Indian ploughman in loincloth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialConfucius the Second, or, a New Sun rising in the Asiatic World!. 1783. This engraving depicts Fox as the bright sun, rising over the River Ganges, while on the far bank, a fallen Hastings is in shackles. In the foreground stand some of the actors in t...
Editorial'Asiatic Plants', Earthenware, transfer-printed decoration, Scalloped-edge plate with blue transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Central image of branches with blossoming flowers and foliage. Border with dense flower motifs, flower swags and oth...
EditorialFragment of a Carved Relief from a Palace Wall, 668 BC-627 BC Iraq, Nineveh h522 x w285 x d26 mm, Flat limestone slab showing Assyrian lancer advancing left into reeds by the side of a marsh of pool., Asia, Western Asiatic, Armour, Middle East, Archite...
EditorialGlass bead, Probably western Asiatic or Levantine, Late Bronze Age, Date ca. 15001350 B.C., Probably western Asiatic or Levantine, Glass; mold pressed, 1 7/16 ? 1 3/8 ? 7/16 in. (3.6 ? 3.5 ? 1.2 cm), Glass.
EditorialRelief fragment of an Asiatic prisoner, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II possibly, ca. 12791213 B.C., From Egypt; Said to be from Eastern Delta, Hurbeit (Pharbaethos), Limestone, H. 0.483m.
EditorialThai landscape with figures Image of the clothing of the Siammers, View of a Thai landscape in which in the foreground a man with folded hands bows before a man with a top hat. On the left a woman with two naked children, on the right an elephant is ri...
Editorialgroup of musicians sit on the floor with their instruments. On the right is a cook. Behind them buildings and palm trees, Asiatic races and peoples, musician - CC - out of doors, cook, Makassar, Coenraad Ritsema (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1860, pa...
EditorialKorean men in an interior Merchants and ship people (title on object) Koorai (series title on object), Six men are sitting on the floor, one of them is seen on the back. Behind them, through an open sliding wall, a landscape is visible. The men wear li...
EditorialNative lady riding in her curtained palkee (palanquin), borne by two servants in loincloth and turban. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialFakir or fukeer, begging friar, in muslin loincloth, under an umbrella next to a small shrine decorated with cowrie shells. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialEuropean woman in a tonjon, or ladies carriage, carried by Indian bearers in loincloth, and attended by an umbrella carrier. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialTown hall. Government house. Panoramic view of Calcutta, 1847. Calcutta : T. Black, Asiatic Lithographic Press, 1847. 1 sheet : ill. ; 24 x 210 cm. folded to 24 x 17 cm. Source: V12765 no.3.
EditorialView of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, London, 1824.