Two pages from the journal of German traveller Prince Maximillian Alexander Philipp von Wied-Neuwield, who explored North America accompanied by...
Verbascum Thapsus. Great Mullein', 19th Century. It is widely used for herbal remedies, with well-established emollient and astringent properties....
Vintage illustration of a robot carrying an unconscious voluptuous young blonde woman in skin-tight clothing on a barren alien landscape, 1960s.
The Skin Market, Bermondsey, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century', c1840, . From London - South of the Thames, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam &...
Sinking Run, Above Tyrone', 1874. Lightning on the Juniata River, Pennsylvania, USA. 'Thunder-storms are of daily occurrence up in these heights, and...
The Spouting Cave', 1872. The 'Spouting-Rock' on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean at Rhode Island, USA: 'After a southeasterly storm, the apparatus is...
Still Life with Herring, Bread, and Cheese, 1858. This painting forms a pair with the Still Life with Pipe and Matches, shown nearby. Along with...
Still Life with Fruit, 1873. This composition contains many elements that show Preyer's technical abilities. She convincingly rendered the various...
Shiva Under Trees, circa 1780. Cut from a larger composition, this fragment shows the god Shiva who has come down to earth. He seems alluringly...
Portrait of a Couple, circa 1580-1588. While the attribution remains hotly debated, this work exemplifies how Italian portraiture of the 1500s could...
The Tired Gleaner, 1880. Gleaning?or picking up what little grain remains after a wheat field has been harvested?was usually the job of the poor,...
Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl, c. AD 25-37. Traditional Egyptian burial practices continued well into Roman times. These lifelike portraits were...
Cupid and Psyche, 1817. David used the story of Cupid and Psyche to explore the conflict between idealized love and physical reality. Cupid, lover of...
Calling, 1896. Seated on a stone step in the countryside, a young girl has realized that her calling in life is to be an artist. Bouguereau was...
Calling the Worshippers', circa 1893. Barefoot woman wearing a leopard skin, standing on marble steps strewn with rose petals. From "Modern Art...
Water-Carrier Filling Skin, Jerusalem', 1902. From "The Holy Land", painted by John Fulleylove, R.I. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1902]. Artist...
Scarce the ascent began, when, lo! a panther, nimble, light. And cover'd with a speckled skin, appear'd', circa 1890. Illustration from "The Vision...
La Taupe & La Taupe Depoiuillée de sa Peau', circa 1763. The mole, and the mole without its skin. The "Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière,...
Viola tricolor, , circa 1770-1790. With a long history of use in herbalism. It has been recommended, among other uses, for epilepsy, asthma, skin...
Circa 525 BC, King Cambyses II of Persia killed and skinned Sisamnes, a judge who had offended him and then hung the skin up over the seat of...
Circa 1450, A facsimile of a miniature from 'Phebus, des Deduiz de la Chasse des Betes Sauvages' , showing how to skin and cut up a stag once it has...
'Mandan Indians, with Medicine Man in Bear Skin', c1875. The Mandan traditionally lived along the banks of the Missouri River and two of its...
How to skin a stag, 15th century, . A 19th century version of an original 15th century illustration in a manuscript of Gaston Phoebus. From Le Moyen...
Beetham's Glycerine and Cucumber Cream, 19th century. The queen of toilet preparations for winter use - ensures soft white skin - preserves the skin...
'Mrs Steele and General Green', c1770s, . Scene from the American Revolutionary War in which American General Nathanael Greene , arriving at Mrs...
The Churuk Puja or Swinging Ceremony, India, 19th century. Hindus swing on the ends of ropes attached by hooks through their skin. A contemporary...
Bulgarian peasants, c1890. Agricultural workers with their scythes. A man on the right is playing a set of bagpipes made from the skin of a goat. An...
'Trial by Battle', 1877. In this battle, Russia is on the right clad in the skin of the Russian Bear, and Turkey, having cast off its sheep's...
'The Latest in Russia Bonds', 1874. Mr Punch, trailing a garland of roses, stands atop a pedestal labelled Hymen. In the foreground, Cupid wears the...
'Pity The Poor Prisoners?', 1868. A satirical look at the state of the nation's prisons in the mid-Victorian period. Here, a group of lower-class...
'St John the Baptist', c1595-1642. St John the Baptist dressed in animal skin, holding a lamb and a simple wooden cross.
The baptism of Christ, 1st century, . St John the Baptist, wearing an animal skin, shown baptising Jesus. From the Bible . .
Representation of March', 1757. A man in the skin of a she-wolf, with a swallow and a goat symbolising the beginning of spring. A plate from...
'Shoe Maker', 1823. A master craftsman in tailored coat and yellow waistcoat cuts leather from skin. In the background a boy apprentice in apron and...
Forest demon captured in Germany in 1531 . This creature was said to inhabit forests round Salzburg and Hamburg. It was perhaps a witch wearing an...