EditorialFarmers in a field with corn sheaves CXXXI. Upon seeing a Maeyer, sharpening his Zein with the whetstone (title on object), A farmer is sharpening his mowing tools. On the left in the background a second figure binds a grain sheaf. Pent from a book in ...
EditorialAmor sharpened an arrow Title vignette for: At the wedding of Jacobus Verbrugge, and Miss. Maria Terwe, 1681 (title on object), Seated Amor in a landscape, with his quiver next to him, sharpening an arrow, specific aspects of Cupid, archer's weapons: a...
EditorialJug with different sharpening motives, Large jug with oval, flat bottom, laterally flattened spherical body, wide, oval neck with curved spout. S-shaped ear. The jug sharpened with different grinding motives. Neck and ear faceted., anonymous, Waterford...
EditorialTriptych: Allegory of Art Training, Triptych with an allegory of art education. A delivery room on the center panel, a mother is breastfeeding her child. She is seated at a table, the cradle and a basket in front of her on the floor. From the ceiling h...
EditorialIllustration of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. Tales from Shakespeare. (With illustrations by Arthur Rackham.). London: JM Dent & Co (1906). 'Shylock was sharpening a long knife.'. Source: 12206.p.1/10 facing page 102.
EditorialАа Антанта точит длинный нож, Да нас ножом не проберешь! The Allies sharpen a long knife, But the knife won’t strike us! Depicts the ‘Allies’ (France, Britain and the USA) as a fat, three-heade...
EditorialKnives or cifers to grinde. The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the L. P. Tempest: [London, 1688?]. A man sharpening knives on a wheel. Image taken from The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. Les cris de la ville de Londres L:...
EditorialA bas-de-page scene of a man sharpening a sword on a whetstone while two others watch. Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th centu...
EditorialItinerant knife-grinder sharpening a blade on his grinding machine, 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827.