Tag: "antique"

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

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Device of Vincenzo Pelagallo (Vaccaro 229)

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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 used by Wolfgang Stoeckel

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Woodcut illustration of Leaena

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Illustrations of four barons of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Freiherr von Limpurg, Freiherr von Thusis[?], Freiherr von Westerburg, Freiherr von Alwalden[?]) and their insignia, used by Peter Jor...

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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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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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Woodcut of Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd (with ms. note: 'Ecce Agnus de[i] tollit peccata'); used by Melchior Ramminger of Augsburg

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Illustrations of four burgraves of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Burggraf von Nürnberg, Burggraf von Magdeburg, Ritter von Stromberg, and Burggraf von Rieneck[?]) and their insignia, used by Peter...

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John Arthur Brooke, 1844-1920, Fenay Hall

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

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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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Autograph of Samuel W. Fernberger in red pencil and stamp the S.W. Fernberger Collection of Psychology of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries

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Device of printer Johann Faber (d. 1542)

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Woodcut illustration of Sappho

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