EditorialErmine or stoat, Mustela erminea, in summer coat. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1836.
EditorialErmine or stoat, Mustela erminea, in white winter coat. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1836.
EditorialRegency gang members, pimps and prostitutes at the Finish coffee-house, Covent Garden. The customers include cardsharps, conmen, members of the murderous Peep o'day Boys and Family Men gangs, an Irish billiard hustler, and Samuel Hayward's moll in ermi...
EditorialJoust with swords between two knights at a tournament, 15th century. The knight at left has a coat of arms and caparison of ermine, and wears a helmet with crown, horns, and leopard. The other has a blue coat of arms and caparison, and a helmet with a ...
EditorialTourney challenge etiquette, 15th century. A seated prince hands a sword to the kneeling king of arms, accompanied by two heralds, to present to his opponent. The prince wears a scarlet hood, doublet, stockings, and cracows. The king of arms wears a co...
EditorialCoronation of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1351-1402. The new duke in scarlet and ermine sits surrounded by clergy, nobles and military. A Bohemian knight holds the imperial banner, and Othon de Mandello holds the banner of the Viscontis. Fro...
EditorialMilitary costume of a crusader, 13th century. He wears an iron helmet and chainmail armour, yellow tunic, buckler with white cross on red field, cape lined in ermine, red shoes and gold spurs. From a painting in the Basilica of San Zeno, Verona. Handco...
EditorialCoronation of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1351-1402. The duke in scarlet and ermine kneels before King Wenceslaus of Luxembourg to be crowned. To the left, a knight holds the imperial banner and a scribe writes in a book. To the right, knigh...
EditorialErmine or stoat, Mustela erminea. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialRichard banishes both parties. Two men appear before the king and nobles who wear ermine-trimmed robes, around 1470. From the " Chroniques de France et d'Angleterre" by Jean Froissart, made for Edward IV (died 1483). ID: Roy 18 E II, fol. 362.