EditorialLimestone funerary cippus (tomb marker), Imperial, 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Limestone, H.: 24 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (63.2 x 26.7 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, Only one other funerary cippus of this type is known, but the conventions used are simil...
EditorialSkeleton of Death taunting a Physician to save a sick old man. A phial of urine in the the skeleton's bony hand. Physician, heal thyself. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, ...
EditorialSphargis coriacea, Print, The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodilian...
EditorialWing glass with six-lobed chalice, Wing glass on flat base with folded edge. Hollow, ribbed and twisted baluster-shaped trunk with three nodi. On both sides a wing in the shape of a seahorse of colorless and blue glass. Wide, six-lobed chalice in which...
EditorialThree fish and eagle fern, A sea bass with two trout and eagle fern. With two poems, bony fishes: sea-bream, fishes, Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1810 - c. 1820, paper, colour woodcut, h 210 mm ? w 179 mm.
EditorialHerring saleswoman De Haring-Vrouw (title on object), An old woman sells herring to a maid at the entrance of a house, bony fishes: herring, (non-fruit) products of plants or trees : onion, Charles Howard Hodges (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1803, ...
EditorialFlying plum Tobiume (title on object) A series for the Hanazono poetry association (series title) Hanazono bantsuzuki (series title on object), A carp in a fishing net and a wooden statue of a bird. Next to it plum blossom against a silver-red backgrou...
EditorialPuffer fish (Tetraodontidae), Around fishing hedgehogs. / Orbes (title on object), Puffer fish 1-4. Numbered top right: 8. With the Latin names. Part of the sixth album with drawings of fish, shells and insects. Sixth of twelve albums with drawings of ...
EditorialStromateus niger, Print, Stromateus is a genus of bony fish from the butterfish family Stromateidae, of which it is the type genus., 1700-1880.
EditorialTestudo coriacea, Print, The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodilians...
EditorialSphargis mercurialis, Print, The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodil...
EditorialScyllarus latus, Print, Scyllarides latus, the Mediterranean slipper lobster, is a species of slipper lobster found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is edible and highly regarded as food, but is now rare over much of its r...
EditorialChlamydophorus truncatus, Print, The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) or pichiciego is the smallest species of armadillo (mammals of the families Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae, recognized by a bony armor shell), first described by Richard...
EditorialSeriola dumerilii, Print, Seriola is a genus of bony fish, commonly known as amberjacks. Nine extant species are currently recognized, although these were formerly split into many more. Also, several species are currently placed in several other genera...
EditorialSphargis coriacea, Print, The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodilian...
EditorialPennella filosa, Print, Pennella is a genus of large copepods which are common parasites of large pelagic fishes. They begin their life cycle as a series of free-swimming planktonic larvae. The females metamorphose into a parasitic stage when they atta...
EditorialChlamydophorus truncatus, Print, The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) or pichiciego is the smallest species of armadillo (mammals of the families Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae, recognized by a bony armor shell), first described by Richard...
EditorialClupea spec., Print, Clupea is genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings. They are found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea....
EditorialTestudo coriacea, Print, The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodilians...
EditorialPennella diodontis, Print, Pennella is a genus of large copepods which are common parasites of large pelagic fishes. They begin their life cycle as a series of free-swimming planktonic larvae. The females metamorphose into a parasitic stage when they a...
EditorialStromateus niger, Print, Stromateus is a genus of bony fish from the butterfish family Stromateidae, of which it is the type genus., 1700-1880.
EditorialAmia calva, Print, Bowfin (Amia calva) are bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, swamp trout and choupique. They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the sole surv...
EditorialBony structure of the cocklea of a newborn baby, c.1866. Atlas des menschlichen Geho?rorganes herausgegeben von Dr Ru?dinger ... Nach der Natur photographirt von J. Albert. Munich, 1866-75. Albumen print. Source: 7610.h.7 plate 5.
EditorialA lithopedion, also known as "stone baby." Inscription reads: "A bony chalk foetus which was said to have lain in utero twenty-six yeas: Communicated to me by Monsieur Arneau owner of the french anatomy waxwork.". Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the ...
EditorialDesign for Patterned Silk, ca. 1780?1825 , Watercolor and gouache on pink paper, 16 3/8 x 23 9/16 in. (41.6 x 59.8 cm), Attributed to Jean Fran?ois Bony (French, Givors 1760?1825 Paris).
EditorialLimestone funerary cippus (tomb marker), Imperial, 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Limestone, H.: 24 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (63.2 x 26.7 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, Only one other funerary cippus of this type is known, but the conventions used are simil...
EditorialSkeleton of Death taunting a Physician to save a sick old man. A phial of urine in the the skeleton's bony hand. Physician, heal thyself. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, ...