EditorialKakemono family Cock Blomhoff, Roller painting on side, mounted on paper. The whole applied to fabric with at the top two narrow strips attached to a wooden stick. Three women and a child are depicted. On the right a European woman (Mrs. T. Cock Blomho...
EditorialThe Actor Arashi Ryuzo II as Hachijo, Wet Nurse of Taira no Kiyomori, in Act Three of the Play Gempei Hashira-goyomi (Pillar Calendar of the Genji and Heike Clans), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1795. Katsukawa...
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as the Wet Nurse Reizei, Ichikawa Komazo I as Suruga no Hachiro in the Guise of the Shamisen Player Kichiroku (right), and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Tada no Kurando in the Guise of the Palanquin Bearer Kichinai (left), in the S...
EditorialPoem by Chunagon Atsutada, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1921. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe Actor Arashi Ryuzo II as Hachijo, Wet Nurse of Taira no Kiyomori, in Act Three of the Play Gempei Hashira-goyomi (Pillar Calendar of the Genji and Heike Clans), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1795. Katsukawa...
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as the Wet Nurse Reizei, Ichikawa Komazo I as Suruga no Hachiro in the Guise of the Shamisen Player Kichiroku (right), and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Tada no Kurando in the Guise of the Palanquin Bearer Kichinai (left), in the S...
EditorialPoem by Chunagon Atsutada, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1921. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe actors Nakamura Tomijuro II as the wet nurse Shigenoi and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Jinenjo no Sankichi in the play "Koi Nyobo Somewake Tazuna," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1854. Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III); Japanese,...
EditorialThe actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the wet nurse Shigenoi. Toshusai Sharaku ??? ??; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1794. Dimensions: 39.3 x 25.8 cm. Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialPoem by Chunagon Atsutada, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1921. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print. Origin: Japan.
EditorialPoem by Lady Akazome Emon Poem by Sosei Hoshi, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1921. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe actors Nakamura Tomijuro II as the wet nurse Shigenoi and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Jinenjo no Sankichi in the play "Koi Nyobo Somewake Tazuna," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1854. Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III); Japanese,...
EditorialSangi Takamura, from the series "One Hundred Poems as Explained by the Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1835-1836. Dimensions: 26.2 x 37.5 cm. Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe Actor Arashi Ryuzo II as Hachijo, Wet Nurse of Taira no Kiyomori, in Act Three of the Play Gempei Hashira-goyomi (Pillar Calendar of the Genji and Heike Clans), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1795. Katsukawa...
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as the Wet Nurse Reizei, Ichikawa Komazo I as Suruga no Hachiro in the Guise of the Shamisen Player Kichiroku (right), and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Tada no Kurando in the Guise of the Palanquin Bearer Kichinai (left), in the S...
EditorialThe actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the wet nurse Shigenoi. Toshusai Sharaku ??? ??; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1794. Dimensions: 39.3 x 25.8 cm. Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialMama Champa, one of the principal female attendants of the Nizam's family, and commander of one of the battalions of female sepoys. Mama Champa, an elderly wet nurse. . (Russell Collection). 1808 - 1816. Opaque watercolour. South Indian style'. Source:...
EditorialMama Champa, one of the principal female attendants of the Nizam's family, and commander of one of the battalions of female sepoys. Mama Champa, an elderly wet nurse. . (Russell Collection). 1808 - 1816. Opaque watercolour. South Indian style'. Source:...
EditorialChoosing a wet-nurse. Li Livres dou Santé. France, late 13th century. (Detail) Initial A: choosing a wet-nurse. A noble woman tests the exposed breast of a propective nurse; grotesque figure above. Image taken from Li Livres dou Santé. Originally p...
EditorialThe Nurse, model ca. 1607?8, French, Fontainebleau or Avon, Lead-glazed earthenware, Height: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, This earthenware statuette of a wet nurse swaddling a large baby was popular throughout the seventeenth century and was ...
EditorialDoll, depicting the wet nurse dressed in Waterland wear a tight straitjacket yellow satin with long sleeves, a black cloth over the shoulder and a calf-length black wool twill skirt on which a white linen apron, ca. 1676, h 20 cm.