Weaver Gallery

Weavers and embroiderers from the 17th century, and pattern

Weavers and embroiderers from the 17th century, and pattern.. Pattern from Joh. Sibmacher's patternbook, 1604. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by Joh. Klipphahn, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal

Two armed Mandinka slatees (slave merchants) guard a coffle of six enslaved men, each wearing a heavy wooden neck collar supported by the man in front. Senegal, West Africa, 1800s. A chain of slaves travelling from the interior. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

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Arachnida spiders

Arachnida spiders: Protocepheus hericius 1, Cepheus latus 2, Cepheus cepheiformis 3, Tereticepheus palmicinctum 4, Phrynichus reniformis 5, Gnolus cordiformis 6, spinybacked orbed weaver, Gasteracantha cancriformis 7, 11, Acrosomoides acrosomoides 8, Gasteracantha geminata 9, curved spiny spider, Macracantha arcuata 10, Micrathena schreibersi 12, Micrathena furcata 13, Oxyopes ramosus 14 and European garden spider, Araneus diadematus 15. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art Forms in Nature, Kunstformen der Natur, Liepzig, Germany, 1904. Date:

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