EditorialSchonen reunited with Sweden after the peace of Fontainebleau, Silver Medal. Obverse: man's chest piece with laurel wreath inside an inscription. Reverse: Clean kneeling before the king in Roman uniform to offer him a coat of arms within a cover, Fonta...
EditorialThe Lorraine Reunited with France. Charles-Nicholas Cochin the younger (French, 1715-1790); after Charles Nicholas Delovel II. Date: 1737. Dimensions: 345 ? 269 mm (image); 400 ? 291 mm (plate); 412 ? 311 mm (sheet). Engraving on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialRelief with Head of King Ahmose Wearing the Red Crown, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550?1525 B.C., From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Pyramid Temple of King Ahmose, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1906?07, Limestone, paint, H. 45 cm (17 11/...
EditorialThe Lorraine Reunited with France. Charles-Nicholas Cochin the younger (French, 1715-1790); after Charles Nicholas Delovel II. Date: 1737. Dimensions: 345 ? 269 mm (image); 400 ? 291 mm (plate); 412 ? 311 mm (sheet). Engraving on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialRāma and Lak?ma?a are reunited with Bharata and ?atrughna, who have kept Rāma’s kingdom for him during the fourteen years of exile. The four brothers bathe, shave and dress themselves in a series of twelve compartments, ready for Rāma’s cor...
EditorialThe case of the purloined skull: Joseph Haydn's skull, stolen by grave-robbers for " scientific purposes" in 1809, is finally reunited to the composer's remains. In a scurillous ceremony, sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi puts the skull to rest. Eise...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Thirty-second night: Khurshid reunited with her husband Utarid, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper;.
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Forty-eighth night: The young man of Baghdad reunited with his slave girl, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper;.
EditorialThe Lorraine Reunited with France. Charles-Nicholas Cochin the younger (French, 1715-1790); after Charles Nicholas Delovel II. Date: 1737. Dimensions: 345 ? 269 mm (image); 400 ? 291 mm (plate); 412 ? 311 mm (sheet). Engraving on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialThe orphan Johnny reunited with his father, Dr. Syntax. The old man has his feet in buckets of warm water to sooth the gout. The bookseller, cook and Betty Broom look on. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The ...
EditorialBabur reunited with his sister Khanzada Begum after a ten-year separation (1493) (Farrukh Chela). Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (...
Editorial'Ali reunited with the Prophet. Khavarnama. Punjab, 1686. Ali reunited with the Prophet watched by his companions and Amir Ma'di-Karib who is bound in the background. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Khavarnama, a poem on t...
EditorialRāma and Lak?ma?a are reunited with Bharata and ?atrughna, who have kept Rāma’s kingdom for him during the fourteen years of exile. The four brothers bathe, shave and dress themselves in a series of twelve compartments, ready for Rāma’s cor...
EditorialMiniature of the miracle of Saint Edmund's head: after Edmund's martyrdom, his head was hidden in a thicket, but a wolf guarded the head and protected it from other wild animals. This marginal miniature is placed next to the text of another miracle, ex...
EditorialBabur reunited with his sister Khanzada Begum after a ten-year separation (1493) (Farrukh Chela). Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (...
EditorialBa-bird, Ptolemaic Period, 332?30 BC or later, From Egypt, Wood, paint, gold leaf, H. 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.); W. 5.1 cm (2 in.); L. 9.3 cm (3 11/16 in.), The ba is an aspect of a person's non-physical being. After death, the ba was able to travel out from...
EditorialPosthumous Portrait of a Queen as Parvati, Eastern Javanese period, 14th century, Indonesia (Java), Andesite, H. 80 in. (203.2 cm); W. 3 ft. 3 in. (99.1 cm), Sculpture, Kings and queens were believed to have a divine origin, being human incarnations of...
EditorialRelief with Head of King Ahmose Wearing the Red Crown, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550?1525 B.C., From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Pyramid Temple of King Ahmose, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1906?07, Limestone, paint, H. 45 cm (17 11/...
EditorialGeneral Robert E. Lee, 1865, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 14 ? 9.3 cm (5 1/2 ? 3 11/16 in.), Photographs, Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823??1896 New York), Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union...
EditorialThe Tale of Sumiyoshi (Sumiyoshi monogatari), Kamakura period (1185?1333), late 13th century, Japan, Fragments of a handscroll mounted as two hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper, Image (a): 11 3/4 ? 28 1/16 in. (29.8 ? 71.3 cm), Paintings, Anonymou...
EditorialThe orphan Johnny reunited with his father, Dr. Syntax. The old man has his feet in buckets of warm water to sooth the gout. The bookseller, cook and Betty Broom look on. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The ...
EditorialThe case of the purloined skull: Joseph Haydn's skull, stolen by grave-robbers for " scientific purposes" in 1809, is finally reunited to the composer's remains. In a scurillous ceremony, sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi puts the skull to rest. Eise...
EditorialIvory relief of Rama and Lakshmana, from Tamil Nadu, India. Nayaka period, late 16th-17th century. From the Hindu epic Ramayana. Rama is seated in deep thought.Rama's wife Sita was abducted by the demon Ravana. After a series of adventures Rama defea...