EditorialOctober 1st: Yeomen Make Room (Vol. 2, p. 335) October 2nd: She Stood With One Foot Advanced (Vol. 3, p. 156), Thomas Stothard, 17551834, British, undated, Gray wash with pen and black ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 3/4 ? 4 1/2 inches ...
EditorialFloral lattice pattern, Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire), Within the diamond-shaped lattice pattern are dianthus flowers. This geometric pattern, along with other early abstract ...
EditorialThe Artist Sketching Mlle. de St. Legier as a Shepherdess, James Moore, 17621799, British, 1787, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 7 1/2 ? 10 inches (19.1 ? 25.4 cm), aristocrats, arti...
EditorialJanuary 1st: 'of all the birds on bush or tree' (Vol. 1, p.30) January 2nd: The Stood in an Avenue (Vol. 1, p. 54), Thomas Stothard, 17551834, British, undated, Watercolor with pen and black ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 5/8 ? 4 1/2 i...
EditorialThe Interior of the British Institution Gallery, John Scarlett Davis, 18041845, British, 1829, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 44 1/2 x 56 inches (113 x 142.2 cm), arch, aristocrats, chair, collectors, conversation piece, cows, frames (furnishings), inte...
EditorialOctober 1st: Yeomen Make Room (Vol. 2, p. 335) October 2nd: She Stood With One Foot Advanced (Vol. 3, p. 156), Thomas Stothard, 17551834, British, undated, Gray wash with pen and black ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 3/4 ? 4 1/2 inches ...
EditorialFredegonda at the Deathbed of Praetextatus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 18361912, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1870), ca. 1864, Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 5/8 ? 11 3/8 inches (21.9 ? 28.9 cm), deaths, g...
EditorialFigures on Bank of the Long Water, Hampton Court Palace, Bernard Lens III, 16821740, British, undated, Gray wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 8 11/16 x 13 5/16in. (22.1 x 33.8cm) and Sheet: 8 3...
EditorialView of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, 1754, Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white, Sheet: 11 3/16 ? 16 7/8 in. (28.4 ? 42.9 cm), Drawings, Richard Wilson (British, Penegoes, Wales 1712/13?1782 Denbighshire, Wales), In 1750,...
EditorialKing George IV receiving visitors in Carlton House. Courtiers introduce diplomats and aristocrats to the king on his throne. St. Georges Day. Presentation at the Levee. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Real Life in London, or, the Further Ramble...
EditorialThe Marlborough ice pails, around 1700. These ice pails are the only surviving English examples made of pure gold. Ice pails became fashionable at the French court from the 1680s, and were thereafter used by nobility and wealthy aristocrats throughout ...
EditorialView of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum, 1754, Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white, Sheet: 11 3/16 ? 16 7/8 in. (28.4 ? 42.9 cm), Drawings, Richard Wilson (British, Penegoes, Wales 1712/13?1782 Denbighshire, Wales), In 1750,...
EditorialA Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, Pen and ink and watercolor, sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (30.8 x 43.5 cm), Drawings, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757?1827 London), Rowlandson underscored gambling?s grip on British aristocrats at the end ...
EditorialCourtiers and aristocrats playing the game of roulette, or the Jeu du Roi. Chromolithograph from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876.
EditorialThe Marlborough ice pails, around 1700. These ice pails are the only surviving English examples made of pure gold. Ice pails became fashionable at the French court from the 1680s, and were thereafter used by nobility and wealthy aristocrats throughout ...