EditorialPharamond Blanchard (1805-1873). French painter. Paupers from the San Bernardino Almshouse in Madrid basking in the sun, 1835. History Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialSUMMER. The clouds are silver, in an azure sky; The hills lie basking in a sunny dream; The lapping warer coolly gurgles by, Where lies the fallen trunk athwart the stream. The harvestmen, beneath the barrack roof, From laden wagons store the golden gr...
EditorialPharamond Blanchard (1805-1873). French painter. Paupers from the San Bernardino Almshouse in Madrid basking in the sun, 1835. History Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialGavialis gangeticus, Print, The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as the gavial, and fish-eating crocodile is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae, native to sandy freshwater river banks in the plains of the northern part of the Indian subcon...
EditorialGavialis gangeticus, Print, The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as the gavial, and fish-eating crocodile is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae, native to sandy freshwater river banks in the plains of the northern part of the Indian subcon...
EditorialShrine-shaped case for an animal mummy surmounted by a lizard, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); W. 4.6 cm (1 13/16 in.); L. 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.), The lizard in later periods of Egyptian hist...
EditorialShrine box, lizard, Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 304 B.C.?A.D. 364, From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.); W. 2.7 cm (1 1/16 in.); L. 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.), The lizard in later periods of Egyptian history was linked with the creator and solar g...
EditorialSouthern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina (Phoca proboscidea) basking on King Island, Tasmania. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was...
EditorialAUTUMN. October's winds have swept the leaves away; The basking fields have felt the coming chill; The rippling stream has lost its merry play, And lies, in brooding sadness, calm and still. The long streaked furrow wooes the westering sun, To bless th...
EditorialSUMMER. The clouds are silver, in an azure sky; The hills lie basking in a sunny dream; The lapping warer coolly gurgles by, Where lies the fallen trunk athwart the stream. The harvestmen, beneath the barrack roof, From laden wagons store the golden gr...