EditorialWindow with two cartouches and a coat of arms with a swan as helmet sign, Coat of arms with a swan as helmet sign. With underneath twice a cartouche in which, among other things, 'Jan Jacobz Honigh' and '... the Grace of Heaven communicates, 1652'. Bel...
EditorialNegro superstition. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch. R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?]. The text states '...a kind of ordeal in use among the Negroes, for extorting a confession of guilt from persons suspected of theft or other crim...
EditorialBahleah Ghaut, Calcutta. 'The canal represnted in this plate communicates with the salt-water lakes. The boats represented are light, and very strong: they carry large cargoes ... The figures in the foreground are coolies, or porters...' (original des...
EditorialSacrifice at the temple. The Costume of China. Illustrated in forty-eight c. William Miller: London, 1805. The figure on the right hand is anxiously watching the fall of tallies, which he is shaling in a joint of bamboo and as they fall, the characters...