EditorialAn unidentified deiety strangles a monstrous Giant with a lion's head and paws, and with serpents for legs. These attributes characterized the Giants as a brute Barbarian force. Zeus Altar of Pergamon erected around 180 BCE by Eumenes II.
EditorialEnglish coloured woodcut illustrations depicting Noah (spelt Noe) and Ham (spelt Cham), his son. . To the reader. Beholde here (gentle reader) a brief abstract of the genealogie and race of all the kynges of England, from the floudde of Noe, vntill Bru...
EditorialThe wizard and sage, Merlin, sitting under a tree. . The life of Merlin, sirnamed Ambrosius. His prophecies and predictions interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Annalls. Being a chronographicall history of all the kings and memorable p...
EditorialEnglish coloured woodcut illustrations depicting Noah (spelt Noe) and Ham (spelt Cham), his son. . To the reader. Beholde here (gentle reader) a brief abstract of the genealogie and race of all the kynges of England, from the floudde of Noe, vntill Bru...
EditorialRepresentation of the analogy betwixt man & brute. An universal system of natural history including the natural history of man, etc. (Magazine of Natural history ...). London, [1794-1807.]. Source: 1509/871, vol.II, plate opp.152. Language: English.
EditorialMinerva Combating Brute Force, 19th century, Oil paint on paper, mounted on canvas, 11 5/8 x 27 in. (29.5 x 68.9 cm), Drawings, Isidore Pils (French, Paris 1813/15?1875 Douarnenez), This painting is a study for the decoration of the grand staircase in ...
EditorialRepresentation of the analogy betwixt man and brute. Child and monkey with fruit, portrait of man and ape, skulls of man and ape. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Barlow after an illustration by Johann Jakob Ihle from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal...
EditorialAn unidentified deiety strangles a monstrous Giant with a lion's head and paws, and with serpents for legs. These attributes characterized the Giants as a brute Barbarian force. Zeus Altar of Pergamon erected around 180 BCE by Eumenes II.