Pump for Raising Water (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Kitab fi Ma'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya (Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) of al-Jazari
Arab
Book XXIX.14. Publius Cornelius receives the goddess, the Idaean Mother, from all the matrons at Ostia and delivers her to Rome {Tertiae Decadis Liber Nonus p. CLXX verso}
Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1493
17th century landscape album
Various Artists
Boaters Watching a Fight, 1773 - 1828
Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊広
Krishna and Balarama play with the Cowherds (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Krishna Sporting with the Cowherds (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Krishna encounters Kotara, the mother of the thousand-armed demon Bana (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Architecture Words from "Materials Lab", born 1962
Fernanda Fragateiro
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), 1725 - 1802
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
River God, Standing Apostle, Bird, and other Sketches; verso: Study of Frames for Ceiling Paintings and a Leg, 1486 - 1551
After Domenico Beccafumi
Social Settlements: Germany. Hamburg. Volksheim: Volksheim, Hamburg; Germany.: Conference of Delegates from the Federation of Men's Clubs and Settlement Workers. Trades represented: factory employee, dock laborer, watchman, book printer railmaker, assesor, and merchant., early 20th century
Franz Rompel
Zodiac from the Castle Water Clock (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Kitab fi Ma 'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices), 14th century
al-Jazari
Book XXXVIII.49-50. Scipio Asiaticus (Lucius Cornelius Scipio) convicted of embezzling and ordered to prison, his relations contribute to his fine {Quarte Decadis Liber Octavus p. CCXXXVIII verso}
Anonymous Germany
Woman Holding the Under the Cherry Blossoms (Hana no en) Volume of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)/ Books (Bunsho), from the series Seven Designs for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika shichiban tsuzuki), with poems by Rokuzōtei Hōba and Bungaen Tomom, 1786? - 1868