EditorialParadiso, Canto XXVIII. Miniature shows Heaven of the Primum Mobile. Beatrice explains the relationship between the Heavens and the orders of angels. Beatrice hovers above Dante, who kneels beside the circle of angels beneath the Trinity; St. Dionysius...
EditorialParadiso, Canto XXIX. Miniature shows Heaven of the Primum Mobile. Beatrice hovers above Dante, who kneels and observes St Michael and St Raphael fighting the fallen angels; the Trinity. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. Source: Yates Thompso...
EditorialA plan of Mobile. PLAN of MOBILE. [Place of production not identified] : Copy W.B. [William Brasier], [about 1763.]. Manuscript pen and ink with watercolour. Source: Maps K.Top.122.94.1. Language: English.
EditorialParadiso : Dante and Beatrice look up at Peter and three other saints in the ninth heaven, Primum Mobile. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 943, f.174. Lang...
EditorialParadiso, Canto XXVIII. Miniature shows Beatrice hovering and Dante kneeling beside the Heaven of the Primum Mobile, with the light of God in the centre. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. Source: Yates Thompson 36, f.179. Language: Italian.
EditorialParadiso : Dante and Beatrice look up at Peter and three other saints in the ninth heaven, Primum Mobile. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 943, f.174v. Lan...
EditorialA plan of the Bay and Island of Mobile. PLAN of the BAY and ISLAND of MOBILE. [London] : [T. Jefferys], [1763.]. Copperplate engraving. Source: Maps K.Top.122.93. Language: English.
EditorialA girl in a mobile changing cubicle, on the beach on the Riviera. Two men, possibly the characters, the judge and the chaplain wait outside. A Gaiety Girl ... Souvenir ... Reproduced June 5th, 1899 at Daly's Theatre. Waterlow & Sons: London, 1899. Colo...
EditorialMesopotamian art. Assyrian. Orthostates with reliefs in the side walls of a ramp from the Palace of Nineveh. Alabaster. 704-689 B.C. It shows Assyrian officers and courtiers carrying a mobile throne. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.
EditorialTerracotta statuette of a man, Cypro-Archaic I, ca. 750?600 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; wheel-made and hand-made, H. 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm), Terracottas, The figure originally had mobile legs so that he could 'dance,' and may have been a toy.
EditorialOrdnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia, 1865, Collodion glass negative, Image: 21.6 ? 25.6 cm (8 1/2 ? 10 1/16 in.), Negatives, Thomas C. Roche (American, 1826?1895), Like their military counterparts, Civil War field photographers had to carry all their ...
EditorialRoman art. Clay cup in mask form with mobile phallus. Piece from Pompeii, 1st century AD. Glass of clay in the form of mask with mobile phallus, coming from the area of the port of Botarro, 1st century AD. Clay vase in mask form, Santangelo collection,...
EditorialBoy with lance tilting at a mobile quintain operated by another boy, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialAncient Chinese weapons including shield 1, bow and arrow 2, axe 10, helmet 12, lance 8,9, quiver 4, and war engines, including mobile siege ladder 13, mobile moat bridge 15, fire starter engine 14, explosive gunpowder wagon 16, and wall-gouging spears...
EditorialCapture of Ram Tennessee Mobile bay, drawing, 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US.
EditorialConfed. Blockade runner Planter captured 1863 by U.S.S. Lackawanna off Mobile, drawing, 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US.
EditorialBroadside views of three ships, Kanawha Blockade runner Joe Flanner, captured by Pembina 1863 off Mobile; and Elias Beckwith, drawing, 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US.
EditorialQuartermasters Tugboat Sykes, carrying mail off Mobile, between 1860 and 1865, drawing on tan paper pencil, 19.7 x 30.7 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US.
EditorialMesopotamian art. Assyrian. Orthostates with reliefs in the side walls of a ramp from the Palace of Nineveh. Alabaster. 704-689 B.C. It shows Assyrian officers and courtiers carrying a mobile throne. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.
EditorialMinoan art. Crete. Phaistos Disc, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium B.C.). Side A. Fired clay. It has 45 hieroglyphic characters engraved on both sides, along with mobile elements in spiral arrangement from the out...
EditorialGUTENBERG, Johannes Gensfleisch, called (h.1397-Mainz Mainz, 1468). German printer, considered the inventor of printing with mobile typographical characters.
EditorialSaddle quern-stone used for grinding corn. (Quern-stones are a pair of stone tools for hand grinding a wide variety of materials. The lower, stationary, stone is called a quern, whilst the upper, mobile, stone is called a handstone.) Palaeolithic stone age.