EditorialFine Begum Hastings a Lack a Peck. 1787-1788. The Lord Chancellor, Edward Thurlow, pulls a horse-drawn cart bearing Warren Hastings and Edmund Burke, each asserting their moral ascendancy and holding peapods in the air. The depiction of peapods is a pu...
Editorial'Monnaie du pape' Coffer, 1914, French, Glass, silver leaf, amaranth, brass, 5 1/2 in. ? 13 in. ? 7 1/4 in. (14 ? 33 ? 18.4 cm), Glass, This coffer is something of a visual pun: the molded-glass panels are symbolically decorated with Lunaria, a plant a...
EditorialThe Milliner, ca. 1882, Pastel and charcoal on warm gray wove paper, now discolored to buff (watermark MICHALLET), laid down on dark brown wove paper, 18 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (47.6 x 62.2 cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Degas?s ...
Editorial?? ?? ??? ??, Gibbons and Deer, Southern Song dynasty (1127?1279), China, Album leaf; ink and color on silk, 7 x 8 3/4 in. (17.8 x 22.2 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, 13th century, This painting is a rebus or pictorial pun, that conveys a...
Editorial?? ?? ?????????, Gibbons Raiding an Egret's Nest, Southern Song dynasty (1127?1279), late 12th century, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, Image: 9 1/2 in. ? 9 in. (24.1 ? 22.9 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, Forme...
EditorialA basket of flowers, Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, Suzhou, 1690. The inscription on this print identifies the Ding family as coming from [near] the Jinchang pavillion. The Jinchang pavillion was near the Chang gate, in north-western Suzhou. Th...