EditorialKnife, Cut and honed steel, carved wood, cut sheet brass, Scimitar-shaped blade with rounded end. Octagonal socket of plain brass. Handle of wood carved with female virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity all holding their attributes., England, ca. 1700, cutl...
EditorialArtist: Wolfgang Huber, German, ca. 14851553, Saint George and the?Dragon, Wood-cut, Made in Germany, German, 16th?century, Works on Paper -?Prints.
EditorialPrint - 'Laying the Foundation Stone', The Illustrated Australian News, Melbourne, 1879, Wood cut engraving of the laying of the (Royal) Exhibition Building's foundation stone on 19 February 1879, published in The Illustrated Australian News, 1879. The...
EditorialThe title forms part of a wood-cut. Depicts the collapse of part of the former monastry complex in 1623; nearly 100 people who had gathered to hear a sermon were killed. This is the best depiction of part of the Blackfriars precinct. Black Fryers. (Ele...
EditorialPrince Rupert. The bloody prince, or a declaration of the most crcruell practices of Prince Rupert and the rest of the cavaliers in fighting against God ... London, 1643. Prince Rupert (of the Rhine), on horseback. His dog runs alongside. Image taken f...
EditorialWorld map. c.1743. World map of c 1743. Wood-cut and hand-coloured. A reference to the 8th year of Ch'ien Lung shows that this map was made in or after 1743. The marginal text quotes population figures from Liang's old map, and distances from Tsao's ol...
EditorialGermany. Das ist der Rom Weg von meylen zu meylen mit punct. [Nuremberg], [1492?]. Map of Germany. Image taken from Das ist der Rom Weg von meylen zu meylen mit puncten verzeychnet von eyner stat zu der andern durch deutzsche lantt. [A wood-cut map of...