EditorialFire screen (?cran), Georges Jacob (French, 1739?1814), Fabric panel in the style of Philippe de Lasalle (French, 1723?1804), ca. 1786, French, Paris, Carved, gilded and silvered beech; 18th-century silk brocade (not original to frame), H. 42 x W. 26-3...
EditorialLou Cantillo, left, and Byron Bronson, owners of Buddy’s Bodega, an underground company specializing in designer strains of marijuana, in Brooklyn, April 19, 2022.(Kendall Bessent/The New York Times)
EditorialOniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond, from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts". Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Japanese, 1839-1892. Date: 1889. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print. Origin: Japan.
EditorialPalestinians make wooden decorations ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, at a workshop in the West Bank city of Hebron, Hebron, West Bank, Palestinian Territory - 29 Mar 2022
EditorialIllustration to a story of the first world war, showing a soldier of the allies observing some German soldiers. The Strand magazine : an illustrated monthly / edited by G. Newnes. London : George Newnes. 1916. Source: P.P.6004.glk volume LI, no.306. pa...
EditorialIskandar and an angel observing Khizr and Ilyas putting the dried fish into the Water of Life. Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Isfahan, Iran, 1665-1667. Source: Add. 6613, f.261v. Language: Persian.
EditorialFarud on the mountain. Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 24 miniatures. 1600. Farud on the mountain observing the approach of the Persian army. 14 by 15 cm. Opaque watercolour. Bukhara style. Image taken from Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 24 miniatures.. Origi...
EditorialConstitutions y Altres Drets de Cathalunya, compilats en virtut del Cap?tol de Cort LXXXII, de las Corts per la S.C.Y.R. Majestat del rey Don Philip IV, nostre senyor celebradas en la ciutat de Barcelona any MDCII. (Constitutions and Other Rights of Ca...
EditorialFestival, Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 17971858, Woodblock print in colored ink on paper, This summer print shows a crowded street full of people and fans. The front shows a tilting festival structure, known as a mikoshi. Men chant to keep rhythm as they ...
EditorialJAMES WATT (1736/1819) Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781. James Watt observing the effects of steam. Engraving, 1869.
EditorialFour children and the Quaggle-Waggle observing a row of large bottles Verse and illustrations from A Book of Nonsense by Lear. . A Book of Nonsense ... With all the original pictures and verses. George Routledge & Sons: London, England [1910.]. Source:...
EditorialConstitutions y Altres Drets de Cathalunya, compilats en virtut del Cap?tol de Cort LXXXII, de las Corts per la S.C.Y.R. Majestat del rey Don Philip IV, nostre senyor celebradas en la ciutat de Barcelona any MDCII. (Constitutions and Other Rights of Ca...