EditorialA hawk carrying a snake in its talons near San Diego struck a power line, electrocuting both animals and starting a fire in 2015. (San Diego Fire-Rescue Department via The New York Times)
EditorialA hawk carrying a snake in its talons near San Diego struck a power line, electrocuting both animals and starting a fire in 2015. (San Diego Fire-Rescue Department via The New York Times)
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: 8-harness satin (red) patterned by weft floats (yellow), alternate shots of which are complementary (dark and light blue); floats were bound on the front in plain weave (now worn off), Fragment with vertically symmetri...
EditorialHachette & Cie, Hugues Krafft, Dujardin, Un cavalier chauss? de bottes ? hauts talons pointus, from the book A travers le Turkestan Russe, paper, heliogravure, image size: height: 17.20 cm; width: 12.00 cm, travel photography, portrait photography, fol...
EditorialThe Virgin, Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 17281815, Italian, active in Britain (176499), after Raphael, Italian, 14831520, Italian, 1778, Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper laid on modern m...
EditorialOne eagle, one owl and three owlets, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9), Print made by George Bickham, 1683/41758, British, after Francis Barlow, ca. 16261704, British, Pub...
EditorialGreater Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, unknown artist, nineteenth century, after Edward Lear, 18121888, British, ca. 1832, Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 21 3/8 x 15 1/8 inches (5...
EditorialHebe, Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 17281815, Italian, active in Britain (176499), after Angelica Kauffmann RA, 17411807, Swiss, active in Britain (176681), Published by James Walker, 17481808, British, 1782, Mezzotint and etching on medium, m...
EditorialBurney relief. Queen of the Night). Mesopotamian terracotta plaque. High relief o f the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period. Winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions. 18th-19th centuries B...
EditorialLectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1301, with later additions, Made in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy, Italian, Carrera marble with addition of Pentelic marble, Overall: 27 3/4 x 24 3/16 x 16in. (70.5 x 61....
EditorialOpening of St. John's gospel. Initial 'I' with interlace and acanthus decoration. St. John is seated in front of a desk with a book on it, and an ink-horn attached to the leg. The evangelist is writing the opening verse with a quill, and has a knife in...
EditorialFalcon. Original inscriptions: ‘B. 1. No. 20. Doubtful’ Stylized rendition of a falcon variety. It is feeding off a dead bird in its talons. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 29/4.
EditorialOpening of St. John's gospel. Initial 'I' with interlace and acanthus decoration. St. John is seated in front of a desk with a book on it, and an ink-horn attached to the leg. The evangelist is writing the opening verse with a quill, and has a knife in...
EditorialPsalm 81; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 80. Psalm 81 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration with three grotesques. In the outer margin, one with a male hooded peasant's...
EditorialFalcon. Original inscriptions: ‘B. 1. No. 20. Doubtful’ Stylized rendition of a falcon variety. It is feeding off a dead bird in its talons. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 29/4.
EditorialA griffin Griphes, which has the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, grabbing a horse in its talons. . Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. England, S. (Salisbury?). Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambr...
EditorialAmulet with a figure of Lamashtu, designed to ward off evil, from Mesopotamia, around 800 BCE. Lamashtu has the head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts and the talons of a bird. She holds snakes in her hands and stands on her sacred animal...
EditorialTerracotta jug, Cypro-Archaic I, ca. 750?600 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta, H. 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm), Vases, Birds represent a frequent motif on this class of jugs with so-called free-field decoration. The variety in the birds' articulation is noteworthy, ...
EditorialLectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1301, with later additions, Made in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy, Italian, Carrera marble with addition of Pentelic marble, Overall: 27 3/4 x 24 3/16 x 16in. (70.5 x 61....
EditorialAmulet with a figure of Lamashtu, designed to ward off evil, from Mesopotamia, around 800 BCE. Lamashtu has the head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts and the talons of a bird. She holds snakes in her hands and stands on her sacred animal...