- Achilles bandaging Patroclus,
A kylix from the Berlin Museum of about 490 b. c. It bears the inscription ΣΟΣΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΙΗΣΕΝ, Sosias made (me), and represents Achilles bandaging Patroclus, the names of the two heroes being written round the margin. The painter is Euphronios, and the work is regarded as the masterpiece of that great artist. The left upper arm of Patroclus is injured, and Achilles is bandaging it with a two-rolled bandage, which he is trying to bring down to extend over the elbow. The treatment of the hands, a department in which Euphronios excelled, is particularly fine. Achilles was not a trained surgeon, and it will be observed, from the position of the two tails of the bandage, that he will have some difficulty when it comes to its final fastening! - Alehouse
- An Ale-house lattice
- An Ale-house lattice
- An Ale-stake
- An anatomical diagram of about 1298
An anatomical diagram of about 1298 - An Ancient brewery
- An Egyptian Woman
An Egyptian Woman - An opium smoker
- Ancient Alehouse
- Ancient Chinese Costumes
- Ancient Chinese Costumes 2
- Anglo-Saxon Tumblers
- Anglo-Saxons Feasting and Health-Drinking
- Another representation of the Elephant-headed Rain god
Another representation of the Elephant-headed Rain god. He is holding thunderbolts, conventionalised in a hand-like form. The Serpent is converted into a sac, holding up the rain-waters. - Archæopteryx
- Arrival of the Mail
- Babylonian Weather God
Babylonian Weather God - Benjamin is introduced to Joseph
Benjamin is introduced to Joseph Genesis 43:16 - Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid - Birds-eye View of the Louvre
- Blind man's buff
In the olden times this game was known by the name of "Hood-man Blind," as in those days the child that was chosen to be "blind man" had a hood placed over his head, which was fastened at the back of the neck. In the present day the game is called "Blind Man's Buff," and very popular it is among young folk. - Boy and Girl feeding a horse
Boy and Girl feeding a horse - Boy leading the charge
Boy leading the charge - Breads
Breads - brewhouse
- Bronze Age
The British were able to produce a certain coarse material from the flax which they had but lately learnt to grow, so by now they were not wholly dependent on the skins of animals for clothing. - Burial customs in China
- Burning of Incense
The conventional Egyptian representation of the burning of incense and the pouring of libations - Burning Of Mandarins And Historical Documents, By Order Of Shih-Kwang-Ti
- Bust of Thothmes I, the first great Egyptian Conqueror
Thothmes I. was the grandson of the Aahmes who drove out the Hyksôs. He had thus hereditary claims to valour and military distinction. The Ethiopian blood which flowed in his veins through his grandmother, Nefertari-Aahmes, may have given him an additional touch of audacity, and certainly showed itself in his countenance, where the short depressed nose and the unduly thick lips are of the Cushite rather than of the Egyptian type. His father, Amen-hotep I., was a somewhat undistinguished prince; so that here, as so often, where superior talent runs in a family, it seems to have skipped a generation, and to have leapt from the grand-sire to the grandson. - Cakes
Cakes - Cakes and Ale.
- Camping out
- Celestial influences on men animals and plants
Celestial influences on men animals and plants From THE LUCCA MS fo. 37 r - Celt
- Celt 2
- Celt Warrior
- Celtic Chieftain in full war-dress
- Celtic implements
Their bronze and iron ornaments and utensils were very artistic, curves and scrolls and intertwined work being the chief characteristics of early Celtic Art. Enamelling in red colours was much used on metal work, and studs of coral and pearls, or some bright pebble, were worked into their breastplates, shields, and helmets. - Celtic warrior in hunting dress
- Celtic women
A torque of gold was worn as a necklace, and bracelets of bronze or gold were worn on the arms. The hair, parted in the middle and flowing over the shoulders, was bound by a circlet of gold and twisted wire. Sometimes a sort of super-tunic, without sleeves and reaching to just below the knees, with a check border, would be worn over the long gwn. It was confined at the waist with a belt, fastened and ornamented with bosses of bronze or gold. Women of less exalted `rank` wore the same style of dress, but of coarser cloth and less elaborately decorated. - Cephalaspis and Loricaria, an Ancient and a Modern Armored Fish
Still higher up we come upon the abundant remains of numerous small fish-like animals, more or less completely clad in bony armor, indicating that they lived in troublous times when there was literally a fight for existence and only such as were well armed or well protected could hope to survive. A parallel case exists to-day in some of the rivers of South America, where the little cat-fishes would possibly be eaten out of existence but for the fact that they are covered—some of them very completely—with plate-armor that enables them to defy their enemies, or renders them such poor eating as not to be worth the taking. The arrangement of the plates or scales in the living Loricaria is very suggestive of the series of bony rings covering the body of the ancient Cephalaspis, only the latter, so far as we know, had no side-fins; but the creatures are in no wise related, and the similarity is in appearance only. - Cereals
Cereals - Children playing
Children playing - Children playing
Children playing - Children sitting at the table
Children sitting at the table - Children sitting under a tree
Children sitting under a tree - Chines Bronzes
- Chines Soldiers
- Chinese Helmet and Quiver
- Chinese peasant crushing rice
- Chinese Weapons
- Colobium
Shape. This garment varied in width across the shoulders. The greater the distance between the neck-hole and the edge of the top corner (see A B), the more the upper arm was hidden. This has the misleading effect of a sleeve to the elbow. The Romans had a great aversion to anything in the nature of a close arm covering, so the fashion of wearing long shaped separate sleeves, set by Alexander the Great, was not followed at Rome, as it was considered unmanly; besides, such sleeves were worn by foreigners and barbarians, so naturally this mode was distasteful to the patriotic intolerance of a Roman citizen. The Greek " kolobus," called by the Romans the "colobium." Another name for this garment was the "tunica". When more than one was worn, the under ones were called the "tunica interior" or "subucula." A long tunica was called "tunica talaris." - Cornelius Caton
- Cotswold Games
- Cow Parts
1 Chuck 2 Ribs 3 Loin 4 Rump 5 Round 6 Hind Shank 7 Flank 8 Navel End 9 Clod 10 Fore Shank 11 Brisket. - Crossing The Delaware.—The March To Trenton
- Cup found in the Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
- Custard and Creams
Custard and Creams