Tag: "culture

Woodcut illustration of Julia Soaemias Bassiana (or Julia Symiamira) and her son Elagabalus

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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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John Spencer Smith, 1769-1845

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Woodcut of Aristotle and Alexander the Great

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Woodcut illustration of Helen and Paris

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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 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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Stamp from the library of S. Pietro in Vincoli (Rome, Italy)

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Harrow School prize certificate awarded to Harry Amyas Leigh Herschel Wade (1873-1959) by Edward E. Bowen in 1888

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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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Device of Vincenzo Pelagallo (Vaccaro 229)

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Woodcut printer's device of Andreas Wechel

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Woodcut illustration (possibly representing the devil as a bird-catcher?) used by Johann Herrgott of Nuremberg

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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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Illustrations of 4 margraves of the Holy Roman Empire and their insignia (from left: Margrave of Moravia, Margrave of Meissen, Margrave of Brandenburg, and Margrave of Baden) used by Peter Jordan of M...

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Bookplate of the Royal Society (Great Britain)

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Woodcut illustration of God joining man and woman (or possibly Adam and Eve, specifically) in marriage, used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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