Editorial(First section) A medallion, partly damaged but containing some drawing in the lower half, atop a blank panel. - a monk-like figure reclining on a grassy platform, clothed in a white hooded robe, with his left eye closed; an angel standing at his feet,...
EditorialKumbhakar?a approaches Rāva?a, who is seated in his Pu?paka chariot rather than his proper throne, and then bows before him, while outside the walls of La?kā, Vibhī?a?a tells the astonished Rāma and his friends the story of Kumbhakar?...
Editorial(First section) A medallion, partly damaged but containing some drawing in the lower half, atop a blank panel. - a monk-like figure reclining on a grassy platform, clothed in a white hooded robe, with his left eye closed; an angel standing at his feet,...
Editorial... Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream. A scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. . A Midsummer Night's Dream ... With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann, 1908. Source: Cup.410.bb.55, fa...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of four cranes, one of which is carrying a pebble in its claws in order to keep awake at night whilst on watch. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B...
EditorialDaniel in the lion's den, with an inscription: 'lucus leonum ubi daniel missus fuit et abbacuc portans illi prandium'; below, King Darius lying in his bed awake, with an inscription: 'rex incenatus pro danielo dolens somnium fugiit ab occulis eius' (Da...
Editorial"He comes when you are not awake!" A snake in a bed. Tails with a Twist. The verses by “Belgian Hare.” The pictures by E. T. Reed. London : Edwin Arnold, [1898]. See image 1876_a_30_p34 for accompanying poem. Source: 1876.a.30 page 35.
EditorialKumbhakar?a approaches Rāva?a, who is seated in his Pu?paka chariot rather than his proper throne, and then bows before him, while outside the walls of La?kā, Vibhī?a?a tells the astonished Rāma and his friends the story of Kumbhakar?...
Editorial"I must awake him, yet not yet; who knows from what i rouse him ?". Sardanapalus sleeping upon a couch, with Myrrha watching him. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Edited, with a critical memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Ford Madox B...
EditorialJerusalem, Plate 97, "Awake! Awake Jerusalem....". Date/Period: 1804 to 1820. Print. Orange print, pen, black ink and watercolor on cream-colored paper (Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, ...
Editorial???? ????? ?????, Poem by Kiyohara no Fukayabu, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1835, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 5/8 x 14 1/2 in. (27...
EditorialEnglish dandies leaving French hustlers in a pool hall. Life in a Billiard Room, or Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins au fait (awake) to the Parisian Sharpers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the...
EditorialComfort of a Bed of Roses, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver, [London] : H. Humphrey, 1806, Charles Fox, in bed with his wife, having a nightmare. To the right, Napoleon jumps to the bed from a cannon with the words Pour subjugeur le Monde inscribed ...
EditorialComfort of a Bed of Roses, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver, [London] : H. Humphrey, 1806, Charles Fox, in bed with his wife, having a nightmare. To the right, Napoleon jumps to the bed from a cannon with the words Pour subjugeur le Monde inscribed ...