EditorialDecoration of the Two Vestibules in Hotel Roquelaure, Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, 1677 - 1746, Jean Mariette, 16601742, Etching on paper, Elevations of the two vestibules, each with a double door. The one, at left, has windows flanking the door. The...
EditorialChinese Garden with Fountain, Cut paper on wood frame, Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, representation of a garden: hedges on either side receding into background, and alternating coves and tall trees. In center, fountain crowned by ra...
EditorialThe Teatotal Destruction of Sir John Barleycorn, Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave, Picture full of people and captions set up like a cartoon within a diamond border. In brown on white., 'May it please your Majesty of the Moon we are the...
EditorialPart of the trade fair complex in Frankfurt, Germany, which coves 400,000 square meters, or nearly 100 acres, on Nov. 6, 2020. (Felix Schmitt/The New York Times)
EditorialWomen's maru obi with plovers, waves and bamboo, Silk brocade belt for a formal kimono (maru obi) for a woman, with an overall decoration of two partially overlapping squares with irregular coves, on which a net pattern with plovers and alternating bam...
EditorialEnglish dandies playing whist with cheating cardsharps at a London house, 1820. The gent at the mirror signalling to his fellow scam artists about the mark's hand. Tom and Jerry among the Swell Broad Coves. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac R...