EditorialPalace of Peers side of Tournon Street, Facade of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, 40, after p. 306, p. 392, Landon (direxit), J. G. Legrand; C. P. Landon: Description de Paris et de ses ?difices: avec un pr?cis historique et des observations sur le ...
EditorialPalace of the Peers side of the Garden, Facade Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, 41, after p. 306, p. 194, Landon (direxit), J. G. Legrand; C. P. Landon: Description de Paris et de ses ?difices: avec un pr?cis historique et des observations sur le caract?...
EditorialMap of the Palace of Peers and part of the Garden, Plan Palais du Luxembourg with garden in Paris, 39, after p. 306, p. 390, Landon (direxit), J. G. Legrand; C. P. Landon: Description de Paris et de ses ?difices: avec un pr?cis historique et des observ...
EditorialDon Dismallo running the literary gantlet, engraving 1790, Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, ...
EditorialDon Dismallo running the literary gantlet, engraving 1790, Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, ...
EditorialThe Peers of France sustaining the crown. The Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France. 1365-1380. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. VIII, f.59v. Language: Frrench.
EditorialThe Peers of France sustaining the crown. The Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France. 1365-1380. Source: Cotton Tiberius B. VIII, f.59v. Language: Frrench.
EditorialPart of the formal procession for the coronation of James II: the sub Dean & Confessor; the Prebendaries of Westminster; the Dean of Westminster; the Master of Jervell House; Privy Councellors, not Peers. The History of the Coronation of ... James II. ...
EditorialKing Edward IV. Statutes of the Realm. England; late 15th century. [Miniature only] Initial 'E', King Edward IV with crown and ermine robe, seated under a canopy; with ecclesiastical and secular peers of the realm and commons Image taken from Statutes...
EditorialMiniature shows the enthronement of the Queen, Jeanne de Bourbon, on the cathedral, and her crown sustained. She is seated, holding her sceptre and verge. With her are the Archbishop of Rheims and the Bishop of Beauvais. The Count of Toulouse and Count...
EditorialJames I. creating his son Henry Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester; witnessed by Charles, Duke of York, and many other peers " in pleno Parliamento ". Letters patent of James I. 4 June, 1610. Source: Add. 36932. Language: Latin.
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...
Editorial'Sporting peers in the trenches'. Lord Powerscourt, Lieut. Viscount, A.P.M. 10th Irish Division; 8th Earl of Granard,Lieut.Col. 5th Royal Irish Regiment; Marquis of Tullibardine (Duke of Atholl). Photographs of officers serving in the Dardanelles. Dail...
EditorialTrial of Warren Hastings. London, 1789. A view of the trial of Warren Hastings before the Court of Peers in Westminster Hall, February 13th 1788. Aquatint, coloured. Originally published/produced in London, 1789. . Source: P2376,.
EditorialA map of the county of Peebles, or Tweedale. To The Right Honourable WILLIAM DOUGLAS, Earl of March and Ruglen, Viscount Peebles, Lord Douglas of Neidpath, Lyne and Mannor, Knight of the most Antient Order of the Thistle Lord Vice Admiral, and one of t...
Editorial‘At Runnymede, at Runnymede / What moves the reeds at Runnymede?’ So begins this poem by Rudyard Kipling (d. 1936), first published in 1911. ‘The Reeds of Runnymede’ was commissioned to accompany a children’s history of England, written by t...
EditorialThe demon-god Pazuzu peers over the edge of this bronze plaque. Top register: symbols of the Babylonian chief gods; below: animal-headed protective beings; fish-clad priests attend a sick person; Pazuzu drives out the female demon Lamashtu. Bronze, 13,...
EditorialSatyr, ca. 1530, Copper alloy with a reddish brown patina; the base and shell with a dark brown patina., H. 25 cm., Metalwork-Bronze, Workshop of Desiderio da Firenze (Italian, born Florence, active Padua, 1532?45), Workshop of Severo Calzetta da Raven...
EditorialOpenwork furniture plaque with a 'woman at the window', Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 2.83 x 2.72 x 0.31 in. (7.19 x 6.91 x 0.79 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, On this fragmentary plaque, four bands...
EditorialBell in the form of Bes, Ptolemaic Period, 332?30 B.C., From Egypt, cupreous metal, H. 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.); Dia. 4.6 cm (1 13/16 in.), Bells began to appear in Egypt about the 8th century BC. This large bell is decorated with the face of Bes. A lizard p...
Editorial?????? ????? ?????, 'Hanazuma of Hyogoya, Kenbishi of Sakagami? from the series The Peers of Sak? Likened to Select Denizens of Six Houses (Natori zake rokkasen: Hyogoya Hanazuma, Sakagami no Kenbishi), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1794, Japan, Polychro...
EditorialThe nuptial bower, with the evil one, peeping at the charms of Eden, from Milton, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1797, William Pitt escorting Eleanor Eden to a vine-shaded bower within which are three large sacks wi...
EditorialDon Dismallo running the literary gantlet, engraving 1790, Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, ...
EditorialDon Dismallo running the literary gantlet, engraving 1790, Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, ...
EditorialThe nuptial bower, with the evil one, peeping at the charms of Eden, from Milton, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1797, William Pitt escorting Eleanor Eden to a vine-shaded bower within which are three large sacks wi...
EditorialThe demon-god Pazuzu peers over the edge of this bronze plaque. Top register: symbols of the Babylonian chief gods; below: animal-headed protective beings; fish-clad priests attend a sick person; Pazuzu drives out the female demon Lamashtu. Bronze, 13,...