EditorialVessel Flute, Flute in the shape of a jester's head made of gray stoneware. Around the head a cap that ends at the top and has an extension at the back, in which two holes. There is also a hole in the head so that this object can serve as a flute., Cou...
EditorialAritmetica, Rectangular monochrome stained glass window with allegorical representation of Aritmetica, one of the liberal arts. She is pictured here as a young woman sitting on a chair and counting on a writing table, while three older men are busy cou...
EditorialBird Tori (title on object) Flowers, birds, wind and moon (series title) Kach?f?getsu (series title on object), A man is playing a mouth organ while a phoenix is flying over. Sh?shi, a famous flute player from the Chinese Chin dynasty (255-209 BC), cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialJushi, Number 14., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, [1848 or 1849], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.6 x 35.6 cm., Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, cou...
EditorialJushi, Number 14., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, [1848 or 1849], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.6 x 35.6 cm., Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialNegative - House Being Moved by a Bullock Team, Victoria, circa 1910, Large wooden house being moved by a bullock team. The verandah appears to be braced but there does not appear to be bracing on the rest of the building. They are moving through a cou...
EditorialFukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789?1868)/ Meiji period (1868?1912), 19th century, Japan, Mon side: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen), embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered?paper strip wrapped cotton in laidwork and cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialSketch of the road from Nan-Tien-Min to the pass at Cou-Pe-Keou. H.W. Parish, 1793. A collection of eighty views, maps, portraits and drawings illustrative of the Embassy sent to China under George, Earl of Macartney, in 1793; drawn chiefly by William ...
EditorialA woman, child and a dog standing in a courtyard; a fountain in the centre; two figures in the distance; an arcade around the ground floor of the courtyard; a piano nobile and attic storey above; balustrades along the roof line. Interior of Hampton Cou...
EditorialPlan, Section and Geometrical Elevation of the Great Wall and a Tower, near the Pass at Cou-pe-keou. / H. W. Parish Royal Artillery 1793. Summary: View of a castellated tower and fragment of wall from one side and from above, with section of the wall a...
EditorialIllustration showing characters in the novel. Dorothy Vernon (c. 1545 – June 24, 1584), the younger daughter of Sir George Vernon, was the heiress of Haddon Hall, an English country house in Derbyshire. She married John Manners in about 1563. The cou...
EditorialPlans, Section and Elevation of a Tower (No. 2) on the Great Wall near the Pass at Cou-pe-keou. / H. W. Parish Royal Artillery 1793. View and section of a castellated square tower and of a fragment of wall; scale, key and explanatory text on the right....
EditorialLittle Neston. A Plan of the Township of Little Neston in the Cou. 1789. A Plan of the Township of Little Neston in the County of Chester. Image taken from A Plan of the Township of Little Neston in the County of Chester, 1789 [from a survey made in 1...
EditorialSketch of the road from Nan-Tien-Min to the pass at Cou-Pe-Keou. H.W. Parish, 1793. A collection of eighty views, maps, portraits and drawings illustrative of the Embassy sent to China under George, Earl of Macartney, in 1793; drawn chiefly by William ...
EditorialPage of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. " Elongaui fugiens et mansi in solitudine ": the Desert of Religion, a poem in about 470 cou...
EditorialLe chien qui porte a son cou le diner de son maitre (The Dog Carrying His Master's Supper). Dated: published 1756. Medium: hand-colored etching.
EditorialLe chien qui porte a son cou le diner de son maitre (The Dog Carrying His Master's Supper). Dated: published 1756. Medium: hand-colored etching.
EditorialThe cherry viewing festival or "hanami" is held in Japan between March and early May, depending on when the blossoms open. Hanami was celebrated since the Heian- period in the 8th century. It began as a celebration for the elite of the imperial cou...
EditorialThe cherry viewing festival or "hanami" is held in Japan between March and early May, depending on when the blossoms open. Hanami was celebrated since the Heian- period in the 8th century. It began as a celebration for the elite of the imperial cou...
EditorialDish: The Destruction of the Hosts of Pharaoh, probably early 17th century, Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt., 20 11/16 x 15 3/4 in. (52.5 x 40 cm), Enamels, Master IC (probably Jean Court) (French, Limoges, active 1614?1627) or, Jean Cour (or Cou...
EditorialLimestone head of a female votary, Late Hellenistic (?), late 1st century B.C.(?), Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 10 1/2 ? 7 ? 8 1/2 in. (26.7 ? 17.8 ? 21.6 cm), Stone Sculpture, Like the omission of a wreath for male figures, the absence of the veil cou...
EditorialMermin. Camille. 33 ans, n? ? La Havane (Cn Espagnoles). Rep. de cou. (?). Anarchiste. 9/3/94. , 1894, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 10.5 x 7 x 0.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 3/16 in.) each, Photographs, Alphonse Bertillon (French, 1853?1914), Bor...
EditorialJushi, Number 14., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, [1848 or 1849], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.6 x 35.6 cm., Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, cou...
EditorialJushi, Number 14., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, [1848 or 1849], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.6 x 35.6 cm., Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, cou...
EditorialTomb of Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790), Austrian Fieldmarshal, who distinguished himself in the Seven Years War against King Friedrich II of Prussia and reconquered Belgrade in 1789. Tomb in Hadersdorf, Vienna Woods, next to the fieldmarshal's cou...