EditorialThe destruction of the tower of Babel The mischief days of the Jewish people (series title), The tower of Babel collapses. In the foreground a column on which a smoking chalice and the statue of a lion, against which a soldier leans. Philips Galle, Haa...
EditorialA royal brewery, or how to cook a wife, engraving 1821, George IV, a conning stoker, of some Mischief brewing, stirring up the Flames of Persecution, with vengeance, saying, If this trial fail I'l brew no more. Behind him is a vat Filthy composition in...
EditorialA royal brewery, or how to cook a wife, engraving 1821, George IV, a conning stoker, of some Mischief brewing, stirring up the Flames of Persecution, with vengeance, saying, If this trial fail I'l brew no more. Behind him is a vat Filthy composition in...
EditorialA royal brewery, or how to cook a wife, engraving 1821, George IV, a conning stoker, of some Mischief brewing, stirring up the Flames of Persecution, with vengeance, saying, If this trial fail I'l brew no more. Behind him is a vat Filthy composition in...
Editorial0310000143 Sword of Justice, German, 1693. This sword may have been used for beheading. As the executioner's swords were used as cutting tools, the broad, flat two-edged blade is straight or rounded at the tip rather than pointed. The pear-shaped pomme...