EditorialWomen Boarding a Pleasure Boat. Katsukawa Shuncho; Japanese, active c. 1780-1801. Date: 1780-1789. Dimensions: 38 x 51.4 cm. Color woodblock print; oban diptych. Origin: Japan.
EditorialWomen Coming Ashore from a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 39.4 x 26.4 cm (right sheet); 39.3 x 26.0 cm (center sheet); 39.2 x 26.1 cm (left sheet). Color woodblock print; oban tripty...
EditorialNetsuke of Pleasure Boat, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Wood, H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm0; W. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); D. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm), Netsuke.
EditorialNocturnal fishing, A pleasure boat with different women and two men interested looking at the adjacent fishing boat in which a man brings in a large fishing net, at night, sports, games, animals (net), Kitagawa Utamaro (mentioned on object), Japan, 179...
EditorialPleated fan, Paper leaf with hand-colored lithograph, pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with applied gold foil, Pleated fan. Paper leaf with hand-colored lithograph. Obverse: romantic scene of pleasure boat and figured in 17th century costume. Reverse: ro...
EditorialLa Gondole (The Gondola), Abraham Genoels, Flemish, 1640 - 1723, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish, 1631 - 1690, Engraving on white laid paper, View of formal gardens, with a chateau at far aned of a long pool and promenade. Trees to the left of the p...
EditorialThomas Rowlandson, The Picnic Party, ca. 1800-1827, watercolor on paper, 11 5/8 in. x 18 in. (29.6 cm. x 45.7 cm.), In 'Sense and Sensibility,' Jane Austen (1775--1817) describes preparations for a picnic party in the country. 'The grounds were declare...
EditorialWomen Coming Ashore from a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 39.4 x 26.4 cm (right sheet); 39.3 x 26.0 cm (center sheet); 39.2 x 26.1 cm (left sheet). Color woodblock print; oban tripty...
EditorialChinese pleasure junk, Qing Dynasty. Pleasure boat with latticed windows and large cabins, usually rowed or pulled. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Jose...