EditorialMap of the most important habitual shock areas in Central Europe, Map on earthquakes in Switzerland and northern Italy, signed: signed by A. Peterman, pl. 6, ed. 1856, Petermann, August (gez.), 1856, August Petermann: Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes? ...
EditorialThe chapel at the shock, View Battle Chapel on the Stoss in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, after p. 136, p. 219, M?ller, Adolph (gezeichnet); Winkles, Henry (gestochen), Frommel, C. (gestochen), 1858, Heinrich Zschokke: Die Schweiz in ihren klassischen Stelle...
EditorialThe death of Dido, Dido is dead on a stake of branches and furniture. In the left foreground a woman of sadness has become unwell. Behind the stake, women on the sidewalk in front of a house watch in shock. The placard on the sidewalk to the left of th...
EditorialThe death of Dido Didoos Death, Boertig depicted in Dutch kleedy / La Mort de Didon, Represent?e and burlesque, ? la Hollandoise (title on object), Dido lies dead on a stake of branches and furniture. In the left foreground a woman of sadness has becom...
EditorialHalf Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast Thirty-two gun ports spread over three decks, no baking deck indicated, but the top champ. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no fence or side gallery, straight rudde...
EditorialArctomys monax, Print, The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The...
EditorialArctomys monax, Print, The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The...
EditorialArctomys monax, Print, The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: a lascivious satyr gets a shock when he peeps at a sleeping beauty and discovers her a hermaphrodite. In the background is a statue of Hermes in petasus (sun hat), with drinking horn and pedum (crook). Handcoloured lithograph by A....
EditorialRama breaks Siva's bow. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Rama is able to lift the bow easily with one hand and, as if in sport, prepares it and draws it. Upon his bending the bow, it breaks in two with a sound resembling the crash of thunder or the...
EditorialShock-Headed Peter. The English Struwelpeter; or, Pretty stories and funny pictures for little children. After the twenty ninth edition of the celebrated German work of Dr. H. Hoffmann. Twelfth edition. Friedrich Volckmar: Leipzig, 1860?. Source: 11651...
Editorial'Music cures shell shock'. A newspaper report on the beneficial effects of music on soldiers suffering from shell shock, during the first World war. Daily Sketch. London, 1917. Source: Daily Sketch 07/08/1917 page 4.
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: a lascivious satyr gets a shock when he peeps at a sleeping beauty and discovers her a hermaphrodite. In the background is a statue of Hermes in petasus (sun hat), with drinking horn and pedum (crook). Handcoloured lithograph by A....
EditorialStamp, Monkey, 14th?early 16th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Aztec, Ceramic, Overall: 2 x 2 1/2 in. (5.08 x 6.35 cm), Ceramics-Implements, This ceramic stamp features the image of a monkey in profile with its arms splayed to either side of its head. Th...
EditorialA woman expires in shock at the sight of a blank piece of paper brandished by the skeleton of Death in a Lottery Office. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.
EditorialFresco from Pompeii: a lascivious satyr gets a shock when he peeps at a sleeping beauty and discovers her a hermaphrodite. In the background is a statue of Hermes in petasus (sun hat), with drinking horn and pedum (crook). Handcoloured lithograph by A....