Deep velvety crimson rose also known as "The Fair Sultana" or "La Belle Sultane" (Rosa gallica maheka).. Le Maheka à fleurs s...
Deep velvety crimson rose also known as "The Fair Sultana" or "La Belle Sultane" (Rosa gallica maheka).. Le Maheka à fleurs simples. Origina unknown, introduced to France from Dutch nurseries circa 1794.. Hand-colored, octavo-size stipple copperplate engraving from Pierre Joseph Redoute's "Les Roses" 1828.
Costumes of Turkey including high ranking courtiers: sultan, sultana, odalisque or chambermaid, Chief Black Eunuch (Kislar Ag...
Costumes of Turkey including high ranking courtiers: sultan, sultana, odalisque or chambermaid, Chief Black Eunuch (Kislar Aga), and an officer of the sultan's court or harem guard, Kapidschi Baschi. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were ada
Kyrgyz sultana seated on a carpet and mattress inside a gher with woman and child. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wil...
Kyrgyz sultana seated on a carpet and mattress inside a gher with woman and child. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.
Israel, Jerusalem, 'Women With Baby In Pram Making Purchase At Stall Selling Dried Fruit And Nuts Including Sultanas, Apricot...
Israel, Jerusalem, 'Women With Baby In Pram Making Purchase At Stall Selling Dried Fruit And Nuts Including Sultanas, Apricots And Peanuts In Covered Main Food Market Of Jerusalem'
Common moorhen, Gallinula chloropus, and purple swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving fro...
Common moorhen, Gallinula chloropus, and purple swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural Histor
