EditorialModel of a 70-Gun Ship of the Line, Rigged truss model with rolled up sails, very detailed. All guns except one are gone, sixty-eight gun ports spread over three decks. Five levels: cow bridge, lower deck, intermediate deck and louse plaster, barge dec...
EditorialNegative - Woman Milking Cow in Paddock, Nyah West, Victoria, 1924, Negative showing Mrs Eloise Vinen milking a cow in the paddock using a cut down kerosene tin as a bucket. The cows wear timber collars to stop them sucking their own udders. There is a...
EditorialElysia viridis, Print, Elysia viridis, the sap-sucking slug, is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Plakobranchidae.
EditorialPsylla, Print, Psylla (from the Greek psulla, meaning flea) is a genus of sap-sucking insects belonging to the order Hemiptera. There are at least 110 described species in Psylla. Species within the genus feed on various host plants.
EditorialPsylla, Print, Psylla (from the Greek psulla, meaning flea) is a genus of sap-sucking insects belonging to the order Hemiptera. There are at least 110 described species in Psylla. Species within the genus feed on various host plants.
EditorialPediculus, Print, Pediculus is a genus of sucking lice, the sole genus in the family Pediculidae. Pediculus species are ectoparasites of primates.
EditorialHaematopinus, Print, Haematopinus is a genus of insects in the suborder Anoplura, the sucking lice. It is the only genus in the family Haematopinidae, known commonly as the ungulate lice. All known species are of importance in veterinary medicine. Thes...
EditorialThrips, Print, Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (most are 1 mm long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Different thrips species feed mostly on plants by puncturing and sucking up the contents, althoug...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Eighteenth night: Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king?s daughter, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink ...
Editorial'More pigs than treats - or - the new litter of hungry grunters sucking John Bulls - old sow to death. . The caricatures of Gillray; with historical and political illustrations, biographical anecdotes and notices. pt. I-IX. London, 1818. Source: 745.a....
EditorialRoasting meats on a spit. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Detail] Lower margin. Kitchen scene. Two birds and a sucking-pig are being roasted on a spit, which is being turned by a seated man, in front of a fire. Another man ad...
EditorialPsalm 113. Border decoration with a large bird grotesque with two human faces wearing a three-pointed hat, each point surmounted by a green trefoil. Lower margin; the first of the kitchen scenes; a sucking pig between two birds are cooking on a horizon...
EditorialPsalm 113. Border decoration with grotesque. At the foot, a kitchen scene. On the left, a carver in cap and apron chops a sucking-pig in two with a large knife, and a servant takes two dishes of meat. In the centre, on a smaller three legged table, a m...
EditorialThe Sucking Fish (Echeneis Naucratis). Dated: published 1731-1743. Dimensions: plate: 35.4 x 25.4 cm (13 15/16 x 10 in.) sheet: 44.8 x 31.8 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialThe Sucking Fish (Echeneis Naucratis). Dated: published 1731-1743. Dimensions: plate: 35.4 x 25.4 cm (13 15/16 x 10 in.) sheet: 44.8 x 31.8 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
Editorial'More Pigs Than Teats',?or?the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death, March 5, 1806, Hand-colored etching, sheet (clipped impression, inlaid): 9 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. (24.4 x 34.6 cm), Prints, James Gillray (British, Chelsea 17...
EditorialTypes of hydraulics systems and pumps: Persian wheel or sakia, Tantalus' or Pythagorean cup, Ctesibius's ancient pump, and sucking, forcing, lifting and chain pumps. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dicti...