Tag: "ancient"

Device of Strasbourg printer Mathias Apiarius, ca. 1500-1554

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Woodcut illustration of Artemisia II of Caria drinking the ashes of her husband Mausolus

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Woodcut illustration of Circe and Odysseus with men transformed into animals

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Woodcut illustration of the suicide of Seneca and the attempted suicide of his wife Pompeia Paulina

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Device of printer Tolommeo Janicolo (Zappella 1184)

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Woodcut of Saint Jerome

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Woodcut illustration of the wives of the Minyans enabling their husbands' escape from prison

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Woodcut illustration of the Erythraean sibyl and Christ

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Armorial bookplate of British Major-General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782)

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Woodcut illustration of Agrippina Minor, Nero and Claudius

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Woodcut title illustration depicting Jesus Christ blessing the children while his disciples look on within an architectural border; used by Georg Wachter of Nuremberg

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Woodcut of a unicorn

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Woodcut used by Valentin Schumann

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George Taylor

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Woodcut device of Parisian printer Galliot Du Pré, d. 1561.

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Woodcut printer's device of Johann Setzer of Haguenau

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19th-century English legal document, possibly a contract between Henry Handy and Thomas Milbourne Blome, witnessed by Henry George Robinson, a solicitor who practiced at 6 Half-Moon Street, Piccadilly...

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Forgive them for they know not what they do!

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Woodcut illustration of the goddess Juno as patron of marriage

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I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one of them (Occupy DC)

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Woodcut illustration in which God the Father, appearing in the sky, threatens vengeance upon the sinful people of the earth, while pope, king, and a well-dressed man with a sword and a hat, beg to be...

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John Spencer Smith, 1769-1845

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Italian lute tablature for two dances ('Romanes[ca?]' and 'Gaglia[rda?]') to be played on an instrument in six courses

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Woodcut arms of Heinrich von Tunna (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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