EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 440?430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H.: 14 1/4 x 4 3/8 in. (36.2 x 11.1 cm), Vases, Youth arming. The sureness and fluency of the Phiale Painter's drawing is evident in this representation...
EditorialCebus apella, Print, The tufted capuchin (Sapajus apella), also known as brown capuchin, black-capped capuchin, or pin monkey is a New World primate from South America. As traditionally defined, it is one of the most widespread primates in the Neotropi...
EditorialCebus apella, Print, The tufted capuchin (Sapajus apella), also known as brown capuchin, black-capped capuchin, or pin monkey is a New World primate from South America. As traditionally defined, it is one of the most widespread primates in the Neotropi...
EditorialThe Vacancy was Effectively Concealed, plate fourteen from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 232 x 285 mm (image); 240 x 295 mm (plate); 751 x 555 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five p...
EditorialRustam kills the White Demon. Shahnama. Isfahan, Iran, 1630-1640. Rustam kills the White Demon in his cave. Gold sky, large tree to which Awlad is tied, and a mass of variegated rocks round the cave, full of human and animal faces. What may have been a...
EditorialThe Vacancy was Effectively Concealed, plate fourteen from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 232 x 285 mm (image); 240 x 295 mm (plate); 751 x 555 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five p...
EditorialRustam kills the White Demon. Shahnama. Isfahan, Iran, 1630-1640. Rustam kills the White Demon in his cave. Gold sky, large tree to which Awlad is tied, and a mass of variegated rocks round the cave, full of human and animal faces. What may have been a...
EditorialCalais. Chales: il vero ritratto de Cales preso à Inglesi. 1602. A dramatic view of the battle in 1558 in which France seized back Calais. England's last foothold on the French coast, which had been occupied for over two centuries. The harbour is well...
EditorialA view in the Bazaar, leading to the Chitpore Road. The last plate in the collection is this view of the bazaar leading to the Chitpore Road, effectively the border between native and European parts of the city. Fraser wrote: "At the east end of Esplan...
EditorialHumble Petition of the British Subjects. In 1773 the British government established the Supreme Court of Judicature for Bengal. Controversially, the court limited the use of juries to criminal cases, while at the same time it effectively extended Engli...
EditorialRustam kills the White Demon. Shahnama. Isfahan, Iran, 1630-1640. Rustam kills the White Demon in his cave. Gold sky, large tree to which Awlad is tied, and a mass of variegated rocks round the cave, full of human and animal faces. What may have been a...
EditorialCalais. Chales: il vero ritratto de Cales preso à Inglesi. 1602. A dramatic view of the battle in 1558 in which France seized back Calais. England's last foothold on the French coast, which had been occupied for over two centuries. The harbour is well...
EditorialStudy for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies ? (verso), 1642?43, Red chalk, the background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso), 14 5/16 x 9 5/8 in. (36.4 x 24.5 cm), Dra...
EditorialMademoiselle Marie Dihau (1843?1935), 1867?68, Oil on canvas, 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (22.2 x 27.3 cm), Paintings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Marie Dihau was a successful pianist and singer who lived in Lille but often came to Paris to per...
EditorialSumidagawa no yuki, Sumida River in the Snow, from the series 'Famous Places in Edo in the Four Seasons', Edo period (1615?1868), 1834, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (tanzaku size); ink and color on paper, Tanzaku 14 3/4 x 5 in. (37.5 x 12.7 cm), P...
EditorialTerracotta kalathos (vase with flaring lip), Late Cycladic I, ca. 1550?1425 B.C., Cycladic, Terracotta, H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm), Vases, The vase painting of Crete and the Cyclades often shows great sensitivity to natural subjects. As simple as the decorat...
EditorialStudy for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies ? (verso), 1642?43, Red chalk, the background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso), 14 5/16 x 9 5/8 in. (36.4 x 24.5 cm), Dra...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 440?430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H.: 14 1/4 x 4 3/8 in. (36.2 x 11.1 cm), Vases, Youth arming. The sureness and fluency of the Phiale Painter's drawing is evident in this representation...
EditorialSCENE FROM BEETHOVEN'S FIDELIO, AT THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, LONDON, UK; Grieve and Telbin's courtyard of the Spanish state prison, with the principal entrance in the background and the dungeons right and left, is an effectively arranged tableau, the ef...