EditorialFailed attack on the life of Willem III and execution of Barthold Granval, Bronze Medal. Obverse: man's chest piece with laurel wreath inside an inscription. Reverse: monument with inscription on which executioner tortures a criminal, on either side bo...
EditorialThe executioner leads the prince to a burning pyre. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.74v. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe executioner again attempts to hang the prince. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.138. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe executioner prepares to decapitate Saint James watched by a group of soldiers, with a landscape in the background; second state. MARTIRIO di S. Jacopo Apostolo : dipinto a fresco da Andrea Mantegna nella Chiesa degli Eremitani di Padova. [Genoa?] :...
EditorialA series of drawings of rural craftsmen at work. An executioner. . Treatise on astrology, Coloured drawings. Netherlands, 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century. Author: Albumazar. Source: Sloane 3983 f.5. Language: Latin.
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EditorialHead of Executioner, from John Evelyn's Sculptura. Richard Houston; Irish, about 1721-1775; After Prince Rupert of the Rhine; German, 1619-1682. Date: 1755. Dimensions: 130 ? 163 mm (image/plate); 178 ? 178 mm (sheet). Mezzotint in black on ivory laid ...