EditorialBattle of Duins, Silver Medal. Front: image of the stroke. Reverse: inscription within vine wreath, Battle of the Downs, The Downs, Deal, Kent, Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, Johannes Looff, Middelburg, 1639, silver (metal), striking (metalworking), d 6.4...
EditorialTalitrus saltator, Print, Talitrus saltator, a species of sand hopper, is a common amphipod crustacean of sandy coasts around Europe. The animal's typical "hopping" movement gives the animal its common name, and is produced by a flexion of the abdomen....
EditorialTalitrus locusta, Print, Talitrus saltator, a species of sand hopper, is a common amphipod crustacean of sandy coasts around Europe. The animal's typical "hopping" movement gives the animal its common name, and is produced by a flexion of the abdomen. ...
EditorialMallotus villosus, Print, The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf....
EditorialTalitrus locusta, Print, Talitrus saltator, a species of sand hopper, is a common amphipod crustacean of sandy coasts around Europe. The animal's typical "hopping" movement gives the animal its common name, and is produced by a flexion of the abdomen. ...
EditorialA Washerwoman at ?ragny, 1893, Oil on canvas, 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm), Paintings, Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830?1903 Paris), Pissarro spent a good deal of summer and autumn 1893 at ?ragny. This picture, like many do...
EditorialDetail Study #1 for "Package Deal". Stuart Davis; American, 1892-1964. Date: 1956. Dimensions: 411 x 331 mm. Gouache with graphite on off-white wove paper. Origin: United States.
EditorialApelles and Campaste. Aware that Apelles was wasting away with love Alexander gave him Campeste and above the first art deal ever now was struck girlfriend against sculpture, oh what luck! (From Art and the Antique, a poetic essay by M. Cav?), plate 36...
EditorialArtillery fort on Kent coast. 1539. Design for an artillery fort on the Kent coast, possibly at Deal Originally published/produced in 1539. . Source: Cotton Augustus I. i. 20,.
EditorialThe first printed English translation of the Magna Carta was published in 1534 by Robert Redman (d. 1540). A rival of Richard Pynson, Redman eventually adopted Pynson’s premises and printer’s emblem in Fleet Street. Like Pynson, Redman’s producti...
EditorialChristmas Tree at Windsor Castle'. This illustration, showing the royal family gathered round the tree at Windsor Castle, attracted a great deal of attention when it appeared in the Christmas supplement to the Illustrated London News in December 1848....
EditorialAntonio Blitz. Magician and prestidigitator. Fifty Years in the Magic Circle ... San Francisco, 1871. Antonio Blitz. Prestidigitator. Born in Deal, Kent, England, 21 June 1810; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 January 1877. Portrait. Image taken ...
EditorialClaude F. Bragdon: "The Chap Book, a semi-monthly magazine". USA, around 1898. Lithograph, 54 x 35cm. This sketch reveals Bragdon's interest in astrology and classical schemes of proportion, issues that he would later deal with in his theoretical boo...
EditorialGeorge Washington Deal. Dated: 1834. Dimensions: overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) framed: 88 x 100.3 x 9.5 cm (34 5/8 x 39 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.
EditorialA Washerwoman at ?ragny, 1893, Oil on canvas, 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm), Paintings, Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830?1903 Paris), Pissarro spent a good deal of summer and autumn 1893 at ?ragny. This picture, like many do...
EditorialSoeur Pierrette Toussaine Blondeau, Hospices de Beaune, 1845?50, Daguerreotype with applied color, Visible: 12.8 x 9.4 cm (5 1/16 x 3 11/16 in.), Photographs, Unknown (French), Sister Pierrette Toussaine Blondeau, seen here with a wounded patient, turn...
EditorialMirror, 18th century, Made in India, Jade, 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. (16.5 x 9.8 cm), Stone, The white jade case of this mirror is carved with symmetrical flowering plants accented with inset rubies. Jade working is an exceptionally time-consuming process that...
EditorialHonor? Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879). An Adulterous Affair. I know about that? I will plead your case with the greatest pleasure. You will see how I will deal with your husband. I will prove that he is guilty on all points, and we will have a good laug...
EditorialCostumes of China: guard with shield and sword in tiger suit, a monk burning an offering, merchants making a deal, a traveling barber, and fishermen with boat and fishing birds, circa 1800. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vol...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
EditorialClaude F. Bragdon: "The Chap Book, a semi-monthly magazine". USA, around 1898. Lithograph, 54 x 35cm. This sketch reveals Bragdon's interest in astrology and classical schemes of proportion, issues that he would later deal with in his theoretical boo...