Desk Chair
ca. 1902 · Walnut
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276 artworks
Desk and Bookcase
1760-90 · Mahogany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on permanent view in...
Dish
Mid-16th century · Stonepaste
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Islamic...
Magna Carta, 1297 (the Perot-Rubenstein copy)
12 October 1297 · Latin manuscript in a chancery hand on...
National Archives Building, Washington, DC, West Rotunda Gallery
Bust of Flora
After 1700 on radiocarbon evidence · Wax
Skulpturensammlung und Museum fuer Byzantinische Kunst...
Cantino planisphere
1502 · Ink
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena
Codice Maya de Mexico
c. AD 1021-1154 · Amate
Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City
Coronation Stone of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin
c. 1503 · Basalt
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 161
Biblia Latina, the 42-line Bible: the Library of Congress copy
Mainz, between 1454 and 1455, not after 1456 · Printed from movable metal type on vellum
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections...
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California
1936-03-06 · Photographic negative
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division...
The Astronomer
1668 · Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris, Departement des Peintures.
The Wade Cup with Animated Script
c. 1200-1221 · Brass
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Gallery 116