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...
EditorialFine Begum Hastings a Lack a Peck. 1787-1788. The Lord Chancellor, Edward Thurlow, pulls a horse-drawn cart bearing Warren Hastings and Edmund Burke, each asserting their moral ascendancy and holding peapods in the air. The depiction of peapods is a pu...
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...
Editorial'Monnaie du pape' Coffer, 1914, French, Glass, silver leaf, amaranth, brass, 5 1/2 in. ? 13 in. ? 7 1/4 in. (14 ? 33 ? 18.4 cm), Glass, This coffer is something of a visual pun: the molded-glass panels are symbolically decorated with Lunaria, a plant a...
EditorialThe Milliner, ca. 1882, Pastel and charcoal on warm gray wove paper, now discolored to buff (watermark MICHALLET), laid down on dark brown wove paper, 18 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (47.6 x 62.2 cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Degas?s ...
Editorial?? ?? ??? ??, Gibbons and Deer, Southern Song dynasty (1127?1279), China, Album leaf; ink and color on silk, 7 x 8 3/4 in. (17.8 x 22.2 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, 13th century, This painting is a rebus or pictorial pun, that conveys a...
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. (...
Editorial?? ?? ?????????, Gibbons Raiding an Egret's Nest, Southern Song dynasty (1127?1279), late 12th century, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, Image: 9 1/2 in. ? 9 in. (24.1 ? 22.9 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, Forme...
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.
EditorialA basket of flowers, Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, Suzhou, 1690. The inscription on this print identifies the Ding family as coming from [near] the Jinchang pavillion. The Jinchang pavillion was near the Chang gate, in north-western Suzhou. Th...