EditorialEpisode from the love story of Laila and Majnun, the emaciated Majnun sits in a landscape with a man and his camel. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1500 - c. 1700. Place: Persia. Measurements: h 160 mm ? w 87 mm.
EditorialIllness and famine in the Spanish Netherlands as a result of the war blockade, Copper Medal. Obverse: Spaniard, standing between Hunger, depicted as a seated, emaciated woman, and Death, depicted as a skeleton, seated in the middle of a weapon surround...
EditorialEpisode from the love story of Laila and Majnun, the emaciated Majnun sits in a landscape with a man and his camel. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1500 - c. 1700. Place: Persia. Measurements: h 160 mm ? w 87 mm.
EditorialIllness and famine in the Spanish Netherlands as a result of the war blockade, Copper Medal. Obverse: Spaniard, standing between Hunger, depicted as a seated, emaciated woman, and Death, depicted as a skeleton, seated in the middle of a weapon surround...
EditorialIllness and famine in the Spanish Netherlands as a result of the war blockade, Silver Medal. Obverse: Spaniard, standing between Hunger, depicted as a seated, emaciated woman, and Death, depicted as a skeleton, seated in the middle of a weapon surround...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of a mime with a shield, Hellenistic, 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Terracotta, 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.3 x 7 x 9.5 cm), Terracottas, Statue of an emaciated old man, with an oversized head and grotesque features. A shield is u...
EditorialThree-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, 5th?6th century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Phyllitic schist, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); W. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm), Sculpture, This wedge-shaped quarter section is p...
EditorialThe miser's feast, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, London : by W. Holland, en sanguine engraving 1786, a miser seated at a table eating a meager meal; Death stands off to the right as an emaciated and naked manservant holding in his right hand a tra...
EditorialYork town, en sanguine engraving shows America receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing English commerce is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground, on the right a froc...
EditorialEmaciated Horse (recto), Frontal View of a Horse (verso), n.d., Charles ?mile Jacque, French, 1813-1894, France, Black chalk, with charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, over graphite, selectively varnished with gum arabic (recto) and graphi...
EditorialEmaciated Crouching Figure, c. 100 BC-AD 300. Mexico, Nayarit, San Sebastian Red Style. Earthenware with burnished red slip; overall: 14 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.).
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
EditorialEpisode from the love story of Laila and Majnun, the emaciated Majnun sits in a landscape with a man and his camel. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1500 - c. 1700. Place: Persia. Measurements: h 160 mm ? w 87 mm.
EditorialМм Монахи что-й-то стали тощи. Торговли нет, - раскрыты мощи! Monks have somehow become leaner. Fake relics have been revealed, so they cannot get rich by trading these myths! Three emaciated monks sta...
Editorial'John Bull; or, an Englishman's fireside!' In a room an emaciated John Bull is sitting on a chair, shivering; a policeman is outside the window. The subject is the the proposed, ‘Sabbath Bill’, which was set to drastically control activities on the...
EditorialSibau Mobang, chief of the cannibals. A Dyak. His face is described in the book as emaciated. His ears are elongated. He wears a tin braclet and a mandau (knife) on his right side. The head-hunters of Borneo : a narrative of travel up the Mahakkam and ...
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
EditorialThe Prince and the Petitioner, late 16th century, Attributed to Iran, Ink and gold on paper, H. 3 in. .(7.6 cm), Codices, Attributed to Vali Jan, Images containing emaciated horses in Persian art have sufi or mystical connotations, symbolizing the asce...
EditorialA group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death as a winged skeleton standing above it holding an open book, ca. 1515?27, Engraving, Sheet (Trimmed): 11 1/4 ? 17 1/8 in. (28.5 ? 43.5 cm), Prints, M...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of a mime with a shield, Hellenistic, 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Terracotta, 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.3 x 7 x 9.5 cm), Terracottas, Statue of an emaciated old man, with an oversized head and grotesque features. A shield is u...
EditorialFasting Buddha Shakyamuni, Kushan period, 3rd?5th century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Schist, H. 10 15/16 in. (27.8 cm), Sculpture, After reaching enlightenment at Bodhgaya, Shakyamuni meditated and fasted for forty-nine days. Thus, showing...
EditorialThree-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, 5th?6th century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Phyllitic schist, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); W. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm), Sculpture, This wedge-shaped quarter section is p...
EditorialThe miser's feast, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, London : by W. Holland, en sanguine engraving 1786, a miser seated at a table eating a meager meal; Death stands off to the right as an emaciated and naked manservant holding in his right hand a tra...
EditorialThe Political drama. A series of caricatures, 'John Bull or an Englishman's fireside!' In a room an emaciated John Bull is sitting on a chair, shivering, a policeman is outside the window, 19th century engraving.
EditorialYork town, en sanguine engraving shows America receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing English commerce is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground, on the right a froc...
EditorialPharoah's fat kine, pharoah's lean kine, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756-1811, artist, engraving 1803, on the left, in England, two corpulent, jovial men and an equally rotund woman providing them with drink, possibly sherry, and on the right, in France, two l...
EditorialPharoah's fat kine, pharoah's lean kine, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756-1811, artist, engraving 1803, on the left, in England, two corpulent, jovial men and an equally rotund woman providing them with drink, possibly sherry, and on the right, in France, two l...
EditorialYork town, en sanguine engraving shows America receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing English commerce is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground, on the right a froc...
EditorialThe miser's feast, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, London : by W. Holland, en sanguine engraving 1786, a miser seated at a table eating a meager meal; Death stands off to the right as an emaciated and naked manservant holding in his right hand a tra...
EditorialRelief sandstone panel depicting the Saptamatrika, 10th century. With the exception of one, each goddess derives her name and attributes from the male god who she personifies. Brahmani (the second figure from the left) has four heads like Brahma, and i...