Tag: "ancient"

Woodcut coat of arms of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)

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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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Bookplate of Dr. Bradley H. Kirschberg (1883?-1941), chemist and head of the New York State Police Laboratory

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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 the defeat of Cyrus II by Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae

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Woodcut illustration of Ceres

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Woodcut illustration of Leaena

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Bookplate of the Royal Society (Great Britain)

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Tibetan Buddhist Tantra (Vajrayana) kapala (Sanskrit for 'skull') a skullcup made from a human skull used as a ritual implement (bowl), elaborately mounted with copper vajra, seed syllables, depiction...

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Woodcut of a crocodile[!]

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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 of an asp[!]

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John Arthur Brooke, 1844-1920, Fenay Hall

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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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Woodcut illustration of Venus and Cupid, with Vulcan chaining Venus and Mars while Dis looks on in the background

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