EditorialPortrait and profile of one of the famous Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, aged 25, and Indian woman of Calcutta, aged 22, wearing nose ring and jewelry. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Verner from Charles d'Orbigny's Dic...
EditorialFloor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), 18th century, India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market, Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), Overall: 83 x 43 1/8 in. (210.8 x 109.5 cm), Textiles-Painted and Printed, Luxury painted cotton textiles expr...
EditorialMiss Anna Swan. A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscella. London, c. 1871. A poster describing Miss Anna Swan, the Nova-Scotian giantess, the largest woman in the world. Below the illustration is mentioned the world renowned Siamese twins, an...
EditorialLes frères Siamois.' Chang and Eng Bunker (May 11, 1811 – January 17, 1874) were Thai-American conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins". L'illustration : journal universel. Paris : J.J. Du...
EditorialSouth-Italian, Campanian bail-amphora. A. and B. Woman dancing. Siamese Painter. Southern Italian, Campan bailamfoor. A. and B dancing woman. Siamese painter, vase, amphora, bailamfoor, earthenware, red-figured, South-Italian, Campan, 29 cm, Hellenisti...
EditorialUtagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, French Girl Walking a Dog Accompanied by a Siamese Servant, Japan, Edo period (16151868), Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 18071878/79), 11th month, 1860, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Image...
EditorialMedieval noble women playing skittles on a castle terrace, and Siamese women playing skittles. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialSiamese man (Thailand) in pointed hat, shirt, dhoti, and slippers. Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudony...
EditorialChang and Eng Bunker, the famous Siamese Twins, 1, and portrait of Louis-Cesar-Joseph Ducornet, a foot painter 2. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque ...
EditorialWilliam Baillie, English, 1723-1810, after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640, Siamese Priest Attached to the Embassy at the Court of Charles I, 1774, crayon manner engraving printed in black ink on wove paper, Plate: 18 ? 13 inches (45.7 ? 33 cm).
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialHomo sapiens, Print, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself the lectotype for the species)., Siamese twins.
EditorialWilliam Baillie, English, 1723-1810, after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640, The Siamese Ambassador at the Court of King Charles I, 1774, crayon manner engraving printed in black ink on wove paper, Plate: 19 1/2 ? 13 inches (49.5 ? 33 cm).
EditorialA group of Lascars (sailors). They are described as Bengali, Malay and Siamese. The Asiatic in England; sketches of sixteen years' work among Orientals. With a preface by H. Venn, and an introduction by R. M. Hughes... London, 1873. A group of Lascars ...
EditorialMiss Anna Swan. A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscella. London, c. 1871. A poster describing Miss Anna Swan, the Nova-Scotian giantess, the largest woman in the world. Below the illustration is mentioned the world renowned Siamese twins, an...
EditorialLes frères Siamois.' Chang and Eng Bunker (May 11, 1811 – January 17, 1874) were Thai-American conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins". L'illustration : journal universel. Paris : J.J. Du...
EditorialFloor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), 18th century, India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market, Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), Overall: 83 x 43 1/8 in. (210.8 x 109.5 cm), Textiles-Painted and Printed, Luxury painted cotton textiles expr...
EditorialA Young French Lady and a Siamese Servant Taking a Dog for a Walk, Edo period (1615?1868), November 1860, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm), Prints, Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 1807?1878/79).
EditorialMedieval noble women playing skittles on a castle terrace, and Siamese women playing skittles. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialPortrait and profile of one of the famous Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, aged 25, and Indian woman of Calcutta, aged 22, wearing nose ring and jewelry. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Verner from Charles d'Orbigny's Dic...
EditorialSiamese man (Thailand) in pointed hat, shirt, dhoti, and slippers. Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudony...
EditorialInstruments from Thailand and China: Saw tai (Siamese fiddle) in carved ivory and enamelled gold (centre), two Chinese fiddles Saw duang and Saw oo surrounding it, Thai klui (flute) with a membrane over one hole (left) and Thai pee (oboe) considered to...