Images Dated 23rd August 2006

The Gemma Claudia, a cameo bearing profiles of four Roman Emperors

XAM66742 The Gemma Claudia, a cameo bearing profiles of four Roman Emperors, left: Claudius and his wife Agrippina the Younger, right: Germanicus and his wife Agrippina the Elder, 1st century (five-layered sardonyx) by Roman; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; (add.info.: emerging from cornucopias, with an eagle below; Indian sardonyx;); out of copyright

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The Courtyard of a House in Delft, 1658 (oil with gold on canvas laid on panel)

NOR61566 The Courtyard of a House in Delft, 1658 (oil with gold on canvas laid on panel) by Hooch, Pieter de (1629-84); 68x57.5 cm; Private Collection; Dutch, out of copyright

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Arch, Brickwork, Courtyard, Dog, Doorway, Drinking, Flagon, Girl, Paving Stones, Pergola, Resting, Smoking, Tankard, Tasting, Trellis, Wine

Calvatia gigantea, Giant Puffball, football-shaped mushrooms in a field, including ripe, edible white ones and inedible, older brown ones

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73016358, Age, Brown, Calvatia Gigantea, Circle, Collecting, Color Image, Colour, Colour Image, Cooking, Distinctive, Eating, Edible, Field, Fields, Five Objects, Fungi, Fungus, Giant Puffball, Grasslands, Growing, Growth, Habitat, Horizontal, Illustration, Illustration Technique, Individuality, Inedible, Large Species, Lycoperdaceae, Meadow, Meadows, Mushroom, Nature, No People, Nobody, Old, Outdoors, Parks, Picking, Public Park, Puff Balls, Ripe, Round, Scale, Shape, Shapes, Sizes, Variation, White, White Color, Wild Mushrooms