EditorialAndré Leon Talley sits for a portrait at home in White Plains, N.Y., on Aug. 18, 2017. André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor who shattered his industry’s glass ceiling when he went from the Jim Crow South to the front rows of Paris cou
EditorialA Lesson Westward, or, A Morning Visit to Betsy Cole, Robert Dighton, 17521814, British, 1782, Watercolor, gouache, pen, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25.4 cm), caricature, carriage, cart, cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialPage of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. " Elongaui fugiens et mansi in solitudine ": the Desert of Religion, a poem in about 470 cou...
EditorialTomb of Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790), Austrian Fieldmarshal, who distinguished himself in the Seven Years War against King Friedrich II of Prussia and reconquered Belgrade in 1789. Tomb in Hadersdorf, Vienna Woods, next to the fieldmarshal's cou...
EditorialFukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789?1868)/ Meiji period (1868?1912), 19th century, Japan, Mon side: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen), embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered?paper strip wrapped cotton in laidwork and cou...
EditorialFashionable women at a play, Paris. Woman in large bonnet with ribbons, dress with high collar, lace cape or pelerine and full sleeves en beret. Entering the Comedie Francaise, 1828. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Cou...
EditorialTextile, Medium: linen Technique: block printed on plain weave, Vertical serpentines of flowers form an ogival framework for vignette of dancing couple along with two small animals playing the drum and zither. German verse appears below the dancing cou...
EditorialWilhelm Dreesen, Sinsel & Co, Der versperrte Weg, Ostseefischer und Das erste Bad from the portfolio Malerische Bilder, Papier, collotype print, Total: Height: 48,30 cm; Width: 32,50 cm, inscribed: recto: in the printing form: title page as well as cou...
EditorialIllustration to A Sentimental Journey: Episode: Maria and her Dog Sylvia, Edward Edwards, 17381806, British, undated, Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 4 ? 2 3/8 inches (10.2 ? 6 cm), cou...
EditorialA Lesson Westward, or, A Morning Visit to Betsy Cole, Robert Dighton, 17521814, British, 1782, Watercolor, gouache, pen, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25.4 cm), caricature, carriage, cart, cou...
EditorialLe chien qui porte a son cou le diner de son maitre (The Dog Carrying His Master's Supper). Dated: published 1756. Medium: hand-colored etching.
EditorialBird Tori (title on object) Flowers, birds, wind and moon (series title) Kach?f?getsu (series title on object), A man is playing a mouth organ while a phoenix is flying over. Sh?shi, a famous flute player from the Chinese Chin dynasty (255-209 BC), cou...
EditorialFashionable women at a play, Paris. Woman in large bonnet with ribbons, dress with high collar, lace cape or pelerine and full sleeves en beret. Entering the Comedie Francaise, 1828. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Cou...
EditorialJewelry by Veyer. Earrings, necklace and dragonfly bracelet in enamel and diamonds. Bijoux par Veyer. Pendants de cou joaillerie et emaux translucide, bracelet libellules emaux et diamants. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching from Tommaso Antonginis...
EditorialAritmetica, Rectangular monochrome stained glass window with allegorical representation of Aritmetica, one of the liberal arts. She is pictured here as a young woman sitting on a chair and counting on a writing table, while three older men are busy cou...
EditorialBird Tori (title on object) Flowers, birds, wind and moon (series title) Kach?f?getsu (series title on object), A man is playing a mouth organ while a phoenix is flying over. Sh?shi, a famous flute player from the Chinese Chin dynasty (255-209 BC), cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialFukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789?1868)/ Meiji period (1868?1912), 19th century, Japan, Mon side: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen), embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered?paper strip wrapped cotton in laidwork and cou...
EditorialChasuble (Back). Italy. Date: 1701-1725. Dimensions: 101.5 ? 65.8 cm (40 ? 25 7/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, satin, and padded satin stitches; laid work and cou...
EditorialPage of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. " Elongaui fugiens et mansi in solitudine ": the Desert of Religion, a poem in about 470 cou...
EditorialLe chien qui porte a son cou le diner de son maitre (The Dog Carrying His Master's Supper). Dated: published 1756. Medium: hand-colored etching.
EditorialLe chien qui porte a son cou le diner de son maitre (The Dog Carrying His Master's Supper). Dated: published 1756. Medium: hand-colored etching.
EditorialMermin. Camille. 33 ans, n? ? La Havane (Cn Espagnoles). Rep. de cou. (?). Anarchiste. 9/3/94. , 1894, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 10.5 x 7 x 0.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 3/16 in.) each, Photographs, Alphonse Bertillon (French, 1853?1914), Bor...
EditorialTomb of Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790), Austrian Fieldmarshal, who distinguished himself in the Seven Years War against King Friedrich II of Prussia and reconquered Belgrade in 1789. Tomb in Hadersdorf, Vienna Woods, next to the fieldmarshal's cou...