EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialThe Entertainer Tamino and the Serving Girl Nui of the Sumiyoshiya. Eishosai Choki; Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNatives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all...
EditorialHandle for a Fly Whisk (Tahiri), 18th century, Tahiti, Society Islands, Maohi (Tahitian), Ivory, coconut husk fiber, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 3/8 x D. 11 3/4 in. (4.1 x 3.5 x 29.8 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, This elaborately carved ivory flywhisk handle was onc...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialNative man of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. From an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto von Kotzebue's Picturesque voyage around the wo...
EditorialThe Entertainer Tamino and the Serving Girl Nui of the Sumiyoshiya. Eishosai Choki; Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialFemale kimono with flying duck, Kimono for a woman with the decoration over the entire surface of a flying white duck against a black background with concentric white lines. Black crepe silk (chirimen) with an embroidered decoration (sashi-nui). White ...
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialFusus sulcatus, Print, Penion sulcatus is a species of medium-to-large predatory marine snail or whelk, commonly called the northern siphon whelk or kakara nui in Maori, belonging to the true whelk family Buccinidae.
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialNui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: ...
EditorialThe Entertainer Tamino and the Serving Girl Nui of the Sumiyoshiya. Eishosai Choki; Japanese, active c. 1790s-early 1800s. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.9 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNatives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
EditorialHandle for a Fly Whisk (Tahiri), 18th century, Tahiti, Society Islands, Maohi (Tahitian), Ivory, coconut husk fiber, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 3/8 x D. 11 3/4 in. (4.1 x 3.5 x 29.8 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, This elaborately carved ivory flywhisk handle was onc...
EditorialNatives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all...
EditorialMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Col...
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