Seal Collection (#6)

Seal and Autograph of the Lord High Admiral, Charles, Lord Howard of Nottingham, 1585
Seal and Autograph of the Lord High Admiral, Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, 1585

Lord Seal keeper, costume design for Shakespeares play, Henry VIII, 19th century. A 19th-century costume design for William Shakespeares (1564-1616) play, Henry VIII

The Great Charter was sealed with the Kings seal, 1215, (1905). Artist: As Forrest
The Great Charter was sealed with the Kings seal, 1215, (1905). King John seals the Magna Carta. Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall, published by T C & E C Jack Ltd

The Merchant Georg Gisze (Detail), 1532. Artist: Holbein, Hans, the Younger (1497-1543)
The Merchant Georg Gisze (Detail), 1532. Found in the collection of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532. Artist: Holbein, Hans, the Younger (1497-1543)
The Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532. Found in the collection of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Vanitas, 17th century. Artist: Vincent Laurentz van der Vinne I
Vanitas, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Still Life with Writing Implements, late 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Cristoforo Monari
Still Life with Writing Implements, late 17th or early 18th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Announcement of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, 1896. Artist: Ivan Ropet
Announcement of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, 1896. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Seal hunting, Newfoundland, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 15th June 1902

Great Seal of Queen Elizabeth I, 16th century, (1896). Illustration after the original in the British museum, London, from a work published by Boussod, Valadon & Co, (1896)

Marine dog, 16th century. Illustration, possibly of a seal, from the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Carry Happiness, French Postcard, c1900. Private collection

The Seal and the Walrus, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Seal and the Walrus, c1850. Around the central illustration of the animals are vignettes of hunting and uses the to which their carcasses were put

The Seal of William II, 11th century
The Seal of William (Rufus) II, 11th century

Early Sumerian cylinder-seal and impression, from the British Museums collection

Rhinoceros in a Pakistani steatite seal, 25th century BC
Rhinoceros in a steatite seal from Mohenjo Daro, 25th century BC

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of the scribe Adda, 22nd century BC
Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of the scribe Adda. It represents a new year ritual, and from left to right are: Ninurth carrying a bow, Ishtar with wings, Shamash with sun-bird and saw, and Ea

Akkadian cylinder-seal and impression of the flood epic, showing Uta-Napaishtim in a boat, and Gilgamesh with a bull

Lapis lazuli cylinder seal, from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600 BC. This cylinder seal comes from the Queens Grave in the cemetery at Ur. The seal is engraved with a banquet scene

Chalcedony cylinder-seal in the first Kassite style, owned by Sha-if-Imma, son of Lugal-Mansi

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of a hero fighting a lion
Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of a hero (possibly Gilgamesh) fighting a lion

Neo-Assyrian cylinder-seal impression showing mythical beings making offerings before a sacred tree, from the British Museums collection

Achaemenid cylinder-seal impression referring to the Greek wars, showing a Persian soldier smiting a Greek

Achaemenid cylinder-seal impression of a Royal hunt. The King holds a Gon and a man with a flail seizes a bull. It symbolises the the triumph of the King over his enemies

Neo-Assyrian cylinder-seal impression depicting Ahura Mazda

Carnelian cylinder seal of Mushezib-Ninurta, Neo-Assyrian, from northern Iraq, 9th century BC
Carnelian cylinder seal of Mushezib-Ninurta, Neo-Assyrian, from Sherif Khan (Tarbisu), northern Iraq, 9th century BC. The king, shown in mirror image

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of Gilgamesh and a Lion

Seal showing the goddess Ishtar, Neo-Assyrian, c720-c700 BC. Assyrian cylinder-seal impression showing Ishtar, Mesopotamian goddess of sexuality and warfare. From the British Museums collection

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression showing the flood-epic. Utanapishtim is in the ark, and Gilgamesh is fighting the Bull. From the British Museums collection

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression, showing the water-god Ea on the right

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of a bull-man and hero. Each is holding a bull by the horns, and in the centre is a stylised mountain with a sacred tree on top

Seal of King William II of England
The seal of William II (1056-1100), depicting a man on horseback. He was commonly known as William Rufus, possibly because of his red faced appearance

Title page of Los Proverbios or Proverbs, 1819-1823. Artist: Francisco Goya
Title page of Los Proverbios or Proverbs, 1819-1823. Published by the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, 1864. This print series is also known as disparates, meaning follies

Eskimo Carving, Young Seal, 18th-19th century. British Museum. Western Eskimo

Mycenaean gold seal-ring, 17th-12th century BC
Mycenaean gold seal-ring from Shaft Grave IV at Myceneae, Greece. It shows a warrior fighting three enemies, and is apparently influenced by Cretan work, 17th-12th century BC

Cylinder seal with a bull, Indus Valley, Harappa, 2500-2000 BC

Steatite seal with Bull, Indus Valley, Mohenjo-Daro, 2500 - 2000 BC

Steatite seal with Rhinoceros, Indus Valley, Mohenjo-Daro, 2500 - 2000 BC
Steatite seal with Rhinoceros, Indus Valley, Mohenjo-Daro, 2500-2000 BC

Steatite seal with Elephant, Indus Valley, Mohenjo-Daro, 2500 - 2000 BC

Steatite seal with humped bull, Indus Valley, Mohenjo-Daro, 2500 - 2000 BC

Havis Amanda Fountain, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Havis Amanda Fountain, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. The Art Nouveau female nude statue at the centre of the fountain was sculpted in Paris in 1906 by Finnish sculptor Ville Valgren

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