A personal changing tent, designed to provide privacy for women changing into and out of swimwear at the beach or seaside. From France, 1900 CE [2000×2500]June 29, 2025
Pages from the 13th century CE sketchbook of the French artist villard de honnecourt. Now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris [1403×1092]June 29, 2025
Origen castrating himself, from the Roman de la Rose, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v. From France, 15th century CE, now housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England [1381×1200]June 29, 2025
German Artillery officer’s sword, c. 1861 Worn by Captain Carsten Nohrden (1827-1861), who served in the Columbia Battery of the German Artillery. One of Charleston’s earliest volunteers for Confederate military service, Nohrden died of hemorrhagic fever in July 1861. Charleston Museum. [782×2147]June 29, 2025
“Reclining Pan”, marble sculpture, c. 1535, attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri.[1024×733]June 29, 2025
Royal staff handle from the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC). It features a cylindrical gold socket, ending in two lapis lazuli lion heads. The socket is decorated with repoussé work, and traces of ivory or bone remain inside. On display at the Iranian Gallery, British Museum. [1016×736]June 29, 2025
The Travel Diary of Kimura Momoki (1884-1977), Zen practitioner and painter, having owned and operated a small dojo of his own in Koganei, Japan, until his death. The diary is full of hundreds of ink and wash paintings, and numerous inscriptions as well. [1536×2048]June 29, 2025
Electrum shield ornament of a fish in Scythian animal style, late 6th century BCE. From the Vettersfelde treasure of Witaszkowo, Poland. Made by Ionian craftsmen off the Black Sea, possible relic of Scythian incursion into Central Europe after a repelled invasion by Persian king Darius I [2500×1471]June 29, 2025
Coins from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, which depict the rulers, from top to bottom: Diodotus I (255-235 BC), Diodotus II (235-225 BC), Euthydemus I (224-195 BC), Demetrius I (200-180 BC), Euthydemus II (185-180 BC), Antimachus I (185-170 BC), Eucratides I (171-145 BC) [1600×5391]June 29, 2025
A love letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn: “which causeth me now to write this shorter letter to you at this time, because of some pain in my head; wishing myself (especially in an evening) in my sweetheart’s arms, whose pretty dukkys I trust shortly to kiss.” dukkys means breasts [2378×1896]June 29, 2025
Harmondsworth Great Barn is a medieval barn on the former Manor Farm in the village of Harmondsworth. Built in the early 15th century CE by Winchester College, it is the largest timber-framed building in England and is regarded as an outstanding example of medieval carpentry [3000×4004]June 29, 2025
An engraving from “Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world” by Giovanni Battista de’ Cavalieri, corresponding to a depiction of Wewe Gombel, a vengeful ghost in Javanese mythology who kidnaps children and hides them under her breasts. 1585 CE, British Museum [1200×1643]June 29, 2025
