EditorialChinese Portrait Painter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper, 40 x 49 1/4 in. (101.6 x 125.1 cm), Screens, Miwa Zaiei (died 1789), A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dyna...
EditorialPart of cartonnage from mummy depicting a falcon wearing a sun disk, New Kingdom, Ramesside or later, Dyna 19-20 or later, ca. 12951070 B.C. or later, From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Cartonnage, wood, stucco, paint, h. 21 cm (8 1/4 in); w. 32...
EditorialBusts of ancestors. First, polychromed limestone bust, from Thebes. At background, limestone bust of unknown origin. Both dated from 1300-1150 BC. On the right, and the smaller, wooden bust dated 1550-1070 BC, also of unknown origin. 19th and 20th Dyna...
EditorialSir John Floyd on Horseback, ca. 1800?1814, Watercolor, sheet: 7 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (18.8 x 15.8 cm), Drawings, Richard Westall (British, Reepham, Norfolk 1765?1836 London), Westall here uses watercolor to combine details of uniform and visage with a dyna...
EditorialChinese Portrait Painter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper, 40 x 49 1/4 in. (101.6 x 125.1 cm), Screens, Miwa Zaiei (died 1789), A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dyna...
EditorialBusts of ancestors. First, polychromed limestone bust, from Thebes. At background, limestone bust of unknown origin. Both dated from 1300-1150 BC. On the right, and the smaller, wooden bust dated 1550-1070 BC, also of unknown origin. 19th and 20th Dyna...