EditorialYume no ukihashi, Dream Ukihashi., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, 1854., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.8 x 17.7 cm., Floating bridge of dreams. The poem in the image is a pun on the last chapter of Genji.
EditorialYume no ukihashi, Dream Ukihashi., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, 1854., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.8 x 17.7 cm., Floating bridge of dreams. The poem in the image is a pun on the last chapter of Genji.
EditorialDaoist Immortal on a Kilin and Two Attendants, 1392-1910. Sa Lin Pun (Korean). Ink and color on paper; painting only: 52.9 x 28.7 cm (20 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.); overall: 61 x 38 cm (24 x 14 15/16 in.).
EditorialMarius At Carthage. Soldier, say to the senate that in my noble poverty I have taken for a chair a ruin And if I were in Sylla I would not be sitting here. (Pun attributed to M. Cousin), plate 35 from Histoire Ancienne. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French,...
EditorialLiAn emblematical miniature illustrating the proverb 'you shouldn't limp in front of a lame person'.The scene contrasts a lame man leaning on his crutch with a richly dressed figure holding a bell. It is also a pun on the twin meanings of 'cloche' ['li...
EditorialIllustrated title page showing the character 'Moll Cutpurse'. The Roaring Girle Or Moll Cut-Purse As it hath lately beene acted on the Fortune-stage by the Prince his Players [In prose and verse] Written by T Middleton and T Dekkar. London : Thomas Arc...
EditorialThe Ghost of Lancaster Bewitched. Cartoon map. The county of Lancashire as a portrait of the juvenile actress Lilian Lancaster as Red Riding Hood; drawn by Lilian Lancaster. Lancashire bewitched !! : the county of Lancaster bewitched / by Lilian Lancas...
EditorialGompachi Komurasaki no Toko no Tsuki, ???? ?????????, Shared Feelings in the Bedchamber of Komurasaki and Gompachi, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1795, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 14 15/16 in. (37.9 cm); W. 10 3/16 in. (...
EditorialYume no ukihashi, Dream Ukihashi., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, 1854., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.8 x 17.7 cm., Floating bridge of dreams. The poem in the image is a pun on the last chapter of Genji.
EditorialYume no ukihashi, Dream Ukihashi., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, 1854., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.8 x 17.7 cm., Floating bridge of dreams. The poem in the image is a pun on the last chapter of Genji.
EditorialCaricature of composer Richard Strauss as " Neurosenkavalier" (a pun on Strauss' opera " Der Rosenkavalier" and " neurosis". Coloured lithograph by Josef Carl, around 1905. 14 x 9 cm.