Tag: "ancient"

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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Monogram stamp of Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1845-1923)

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'Zu Brandes 750'

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

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

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Woodcut printer's device of Andreas Wechel

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Woodcut illustration of Ceres

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Woodcut illustration of Leaena

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Illustration of four towns of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Bamberg, Sélestat, Ulm, Haguenau) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Woodcut illustration of Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the deaths of Pausanias and of Cleopatra and her daughter

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Full blind-tooled pig binding with central panel with figures of Faith and Hope

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Anaphora of Mary (Mass book), Virgin and Her Beloved Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Walters Manuscript W.829, fol. 1v

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Woodcut illustration of the sacrifice of Polyxena by Neoptolemus at the tomb of Achilles

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Woodcut printer's device of Johann Knobloch of Strasbourg

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Device of printer Johann Faber (d. 1542)

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Woodcut illustration of Sappho

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Album of Persian calligraphy, Incipit page with illuminated headpiece, Walters Manuscript W.673, fol.1b

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Vintage Retro Bicycle on the beach.

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Vintage Retro Bicycle on the beach.

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Left cover of a green parchment binding

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