EditorialIndian transport: sedan chair or chair palanquin, gary ox cart on the bridge, and a rath or two-ox carriage with curtained palanquin. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient a...
EditorialNoble Interior: Stage Design for the Teatro Marsigli-Rossi in Bologna, Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 17741843, Pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor over black chalk on white paper, Design for a stage set. A richly furnished room in the classical ...
EditorialLexington Minuteman, Block-printed on handmade paper, Beside an Indian maiden, representing America, a patriot tramples British laws underfoot and extends the declarations of July 4, 1776, to Britannia, who weeps over a pedestal containing an urn, or a...
EditorialNoble Interior: Stage Design for the Teatro Marsigli-Rossi in Bologna, Francesco Cocchi, Luigi Basoli, ca. 1810 1827, Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 17741843, Black ink on white paper with gray watercolor, Horizontal rectangle. A richly furnished ro...
EditorialSalon Interior, A. Redkovsky, Russian, active mid19th century, Brush and watercolor and gouache over graphite on white wove paper, This is an interior view of a salon with a high ceiling, a doorway on the left and a three-columned alcove at right with ...
EditorialPlate 1: Figures gathered before a curtained wall, decorated with three armorials with the coat of arms and symbols celebrating Archduke Albert, four skeletons on pedestals at center, gothic facade in background; from 'Pompa Funebris... Alberti Pii'.
EditorialPlate 1: Figures gathered before a curtained wall, decorated with three armorials with the coat of arms and symbols celebrating Archduke Albert, four skeletons on pedestals at center, gothic facade in background; from 'Pompa Funebris... Alberti Pii'.
EditorialNative lady riding in her curtained palkee (palanquin), borne by two servants in loincloth and turban. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialCostumes of natives of Benguela, Angola, 1830. Two baptized natives in loinclothes, two idolatrous or independent natives. In the background a Portuguese man is carried in a tipoi or curtained sedan chair by slaves. Handcoloured copperplate engraving b...
EditorialScene in the Yoshiwara, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1680, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/4 x 17 31/32 in. (28.6 x 45.7 cm), Prints, Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694), Courtesans are seen from the street through a...
EditorialNegative - Interior of the Thistle Inn, Sydney, New South Wales, pre 1880, Believed to be the interior of the Thistle Inn, home of James Chisholm. A curtained alcove with easy chairs.
EditorialIndian transport: sedan chair or chair palanquin, gary ox cart on the bridge, and a rath or two-ox carriage with curtained palanquin. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient a...
EditorialPlate 1: Figures gathered before a curtained wall, decorated with three armorials with the coat of arms and symbols celebrating Archduke Albert, four skeletons on pedestals at center, gothic facade in background; from 'Pompa Funebris... Alberti Pii'.
EditorialNude Reclining on Curtained Bed [Emma Hamilton (?)], November 1, 1797, Aquatint with watercolor, plate: 12 7/8 x 15 13/16 in. (32.7 x 40.2 cm), Prints, Attributed to Adam Buck (Irish, Cork 1759?1833 London).
EditorialScene in the Yoshiwara, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1680, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/4 x 17 31/32 in. (28.6 x 45.7 cm), Prints, Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694), Courtesans are seen from the street through a...
EditorialIndian transport: sedan chair or chair palanquin, gary ox cart on the bridge, and a rath or two-ox carriage with curtained palanquin. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient a...
EditorialNative lady riding in her curtained palkee (palanquin), borne by two servants in loincloth and turban. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.