EditorialTerrestrial Globe. Wright's New Improved Terrestrial Globe, on which the latitudes and longitudes of places are carefully laid down and all the new discoveries made by the late Capt. Cook and other eminent navigators to the present time. Made and sold ...
EditorialTerrestrial Globe. Wright's New Improved Terrestrial Globe, on which the latitudes and longitudes of places are carefully laid down and all the new discoveries made by the late Capt. Cook and other eminent navigators to the present time. Made and sold ...
EditorialA clock mounted on a church wall above a window; the figures of two giants holding clubs on either side of bells; a pediment above. Part of the Church of St. Dunstan in the West : The Figures here shewn were set up in 1671. Were repaired & their Heads ...
EditorialPotato harrow and set scoops (Dublin and Slarks), moveable and fixed pig or swine cases, and pond construction. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences an...
EditorialPlate V, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Metal instrument of cylindrical and rectangular-joined sections. Two moveable flat disks on the column at right, each with a sliding length connecting it to the cent...
EditorialTool, Iron, For fluting fabric. Scissors-like instrument of two cylindrical rods, with handles, moveable on a central pin. In two parts, the pin being broken., 19th century, appliances & tools, Tool.
EditorialFork, ivory, silver, steel, Four tines, slightly curved. Sloping shoulders, baluster-shaped neck. Plain silver ferrule, octagonal in section. Carved ivory handle: a woman in costume wearing a hat (German?), holding an instrument (hurdy-gurdy) under one...
EditorialAbove; the peers fight each other on horseback.They wear full armour, including bascinets with large moveable visors; one carries a shield with a wyvern, another has a spiked poleyn on his knee.The king has a visor with a grilled sight, and star shaped...
EditorialEffigy of Ulrich Landschaden, Heidelberg, 1369. Knight in suit of chainmail with tight cote-hardie or jupon, moveable nasal bascinet, gauntlets, knee armour and chest chain. Shown with sword, shield decorated with harp, large helm with crest. From the ...
EditorialPavisors and a moveable tower. Medieval siege warfare. Soldiers storming a parapet from a drawbridge on a moveable tower, while pavisors protect archers using large pavaises. Copperplate engraving by N.C. Goodnight from Francis Grose's Military Antiqui...
EditorialHelmets from the Tower of London. Black helmet with visor 1,2, and grated helmet with moveable bever 3-6. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.
EditorialMachines used in ancient sieges. Vinea 1, pluteus 2, moveable towers 3,4, and different modes of defending castle walls from a battering ram. Copperplate engraving by Goodnight from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the Engli...
EditorialEffigy of Ulrich Landschaden, Heidelberg, 1369. Knight in suit of chainmail with tight cote-hardie or jupon, moveable nasal bascinet, gauntlets, knee armour and chest chain. Shown with sword, shield decorated with harp, large helm with crest. From the ...
EditorialGeneral John Nicholson (1821-57). Bust portrait; his hands resting on the hilt of his sword. He is wearing the Sutlej campaign medal without bars (1845-46) and the Punjab Campaign medal without bars (1848-49). Posthumous portrait, c.1867. Nicholson ser...
EditorialA clock mounted on a church wall above a window; the figures of two giants holding clubs on either side of bells; a pediment above. Part of the Church of St. Dunstan in the West : The Figures here shewn were set up in 1671. Were repaired & their Heads ...
EditorialGeneral John Nicholson (1821-57). Bust portrait; his hands resting on the hilt of his sword. He is wearing the Sutlej campaign medal without bars (1845-46) and the Punjab Campaign medal without bars (1848-49). Posthumous portrait, c.1867. Nicholson ser...
EditorialTerrestrial Globe. Wright's New Improved Terrestrial Globe, on which the latitudes and longitudes of places are carefully laid down and all the new discoveries made by the late Capt. Cook and other eminent navigators to the present time. Made and sold ...
EditorialRobert Chaumberleyn. The Costume of the original inhabitants of the Bri. R. Havell: London, 1815. Robert Chaumberleyn, Esquire to the King. Anno 1417. 'It is said he was present at the battle of Agincourt'. According to the text of the book, 'the desig...
EditorialAbove; the peers fight each other on horseback.They wear full armour, including bascinets with large moveable visors; one carries a shield with a wyvern, another has a spiked poleyn on his knee.The king has a visor with a grilled sight, and star shaped...
EditorialTerrestrial Globe. Wright's New Improved Terrestrial Globe, on which the latitudes and longitudes of places are carefully laid down and all the new discoveries made by the late Capt. Cook and other eminent navigators to the present time. Made and sold ...
EditorialBoy with lance tilting at a moveable quintain operated by another boy (top), boy with lance tilting at a living quintain (trying to knock a man in armour with a shield off a stool), and boy being rowed to tilt against a quintain on water (bottom), 14th...
EditorialPotato harrow and set scoops (Dublin and Slarks), moveable and fixed pig or swine cases, and pond construction. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences an...
EditorialThe Sloane Astrolabe, around 1300. The star pointers for the rete are zoomorphic, mostly in the form of a dog's head or dragon's head. The tips of the animals' tongues form the actual pointers. Several calendrical scales, also engraved on the back, ena...