EditorialFrom left, Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp and Jason Bowen prepare to record “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” at the Cutting Room Studios in New York, Feb. 16, 2022. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialHotel guest beset by salespeople in the parlour of the Hotel des Quatre Nations, Paris, 18th century. The room is full of furriers, lace sellers, hatters, mercers, hairdressers, tailors, sword cutlers, pimps, horse-dealers, etc. Arrival at Paris. Handc...
EditorialTravellers dining at a restaurant in a French inn, late 18th century. Table d'hote. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and ab...
EditorialGentleman tourist watching a village dance in Caveirac, France, 18th century. Men and women folk dance in a circle, while others drink in a tent under a tree. Rural happiness at Caverac. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thoma...
EditorialEnglish gentleman consulting a somniloquist in his chambers, 18th century. The sleeping fortune teller lies in a bed in a room decorated with crocodile skin, Egyptian figures and incense burners. Consulting the prophet. Handcoloured copperplate engravi...
EditorialEnglish gentleman dispensing his medicine cabinet to beggars at Ivry-sur Seine, 18th century. He gives aerated salts to a one-armed soldier, Bruchsal elixir to an old woman, and magnetic drops, Glauber salts and dry biscuit. Liberality to infirm beggar...
EditorialMen and women flirting at a donkey post-house, France, 18th century. Pleasures of a Poste aux anes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, t...
EditorialEnglish gentleman on trial in France, accused by an old hag and her virtuous niece Clara, 18th century. Before the tribunal at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in...
EditorialA fortune teller reveals his scam to an old friend, 18th century. The somniloquists room is decorated with a crocodile skin, Egyptian figures, occult books and incense burners. The Prophet discovering himself and exposing the deception. Handcoloured co...
EditorialBuzurjumid leading the funeral procession accompanied by water-sprinklers and men giving coins to bystanders. An abridged version of Khusrau u Shirin by Nizami. Sixty-three miniatures. 1726. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style. Source: Or.2933 f.95v.
EditorialHumanoid figues with wings and fur. . Hanes y Lleuaderschel, ... etc. [An abridged version of R. A. Locke's “Some Account of the great astronomical Discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel,”. Argraffwyd gan John Jones: Llanrwst, [1858?]. Sir Jo...
EditorialA gentleman and woman kiss on a bench near a town gate as a two-horse phaeton with leering man drives by. The Embrace. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Pro...
EditorialTwo actors in costume of Faust and the devil after a performance of Doctor Faustus enter the wrong bedroom in an inn. Mistakes at Cavaillon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Trave...
EditorialA theatre company is disbanded after a charge of blasphemy. Actors, actresses and stage painters react in shock to the news. A tragic story at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentim...
EditorialEnglish gentleman with candlesticks in both hands tries to remove a bell rope from the bosom of a sleeping woman. The inn at Marseilles. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels i...
EditorialEnglish gentleman held captive by two Papal guards in uniform in a room in Avignon. A prisoner at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of Fr...
EditorialEnglish gentleman on trial in a religious tribunal in Avignon. He takes out a page with the legend of St. Clara of Falkenstein to the astonishment of an old hag and chaste Clara. The sacred page displayed. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an il...
EditorialGentleman tourist watching a village dance in Caveirac, France, 18th century. Men and women folk dance in a circle, while others drink in a tent under a tree. Rural happiness at Caverac. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thoma...
EditorialEnglish gentleman consulting a somniloquist in his chambers, 18th century. The sleeping fortune teller lies in a bed in a room decorated with crocodile skin, Egyptian figures and incense burners. Consulting the prophet. Handcoloured copperplate engravi...
EditorialAn auctioneer takes bids on the garter of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Other lots include the finger of St. Nepomuck, the leg bone of St. Francis, and tears of St. Mary Magdalen. Auction of relics at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an ill...
EditorialEnglish gentleman dispensing his medicine cabinet to beggars at Ivry-sur Seine, 18th century. He gives aerated salts to a one-armed soldier, Bruchsal elixir to an old woman, and magnetic drops, Glauber salts and dry biscuit. Liberality to infirm beggar...
EditorialEnglish gentleman at the tomb of Petrarchs muse, Laura de Sade, Laure des Noves, in the Chapelle des Sade, convent of the Cordeliers, Avignon. At the tomb of Laura. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Jour...
EditorialMen and women flirting at a donkey post-house, France, 18th century. Pleasures of a Poste aux anes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, t...
EditorialCustoms inspectors opening luggage at the border, 18th century. Searched by the Douaniers at the French frontiers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinc...
EditorialAn English gentleman at a booksellers in Avignon, catching his first glimpse of the beauty Clara with her old aunt. First sight of Clara at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentiment...
EditorialEnglish gentleman on trial in France, accused by an old hag and her virtuous niece Clara, 18th century. Before the tribunal at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in...
EditorialA fortune teller reveals his scam to an old friend, 18th century. The somniloquists room is decorated with a crocodile skin, Egyptian figures, occult books and incense burners. The Prophet discovering himself and exposing the deception. Handcoloured co...
EditorialBuzurjumid leading the funeral procession accompanied by water-sprinklers and men giving coins to bystanders. An abridged version of Khusrau u Shirin by Nizami. Sixty-three miniatures. 1726. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style. Source: Or.2933 f.95v.
EditorialHumanoid figues with wings and fur. . Hanes y Lleuaderschel, ... etc. [An abridged version of R. A. Locke's “Some Account of the great astronomical Discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel,”. Argraffwyd gan John Jones: Llanrwst, [1858?]. Sir Jo...
EditorialBuzurjumid leading the funeral procession accompanied by water-sprinklers and men giving coins to bystanders. An abridged version of Khusrau u Shirin by Nizami. Sixty-three miniatures. 1726. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style. Source: Or.2933 f.95v.