EditorialA Prayer for Grandpapa. Dated: late 1770s. Dimensions: overall: 34.8 x 44.8 cm (13 11/16 x 17 5/8 in.). Medium: brown wash over black chalk on laid paper.
EditorialThe Apostles' Creed. Dated: 1770s/1780s. Dimensions: overall: 47.2 x 36.6 cm (18 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper.
EditorialA Bull on a Ledge. Dated: 1770s. Dimensions: overall: 19.6 x 27 cm (7 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown-gray wash over graphite on laid paper.
EditorialHead of a Man Looking Up. Dated: 1770s. Dimensions: sheet: 32.1 ? 20.1 cm (12 5/8 ? 7 15/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink over charcoal, heightened with white chalk on ochre prepared paper.
EditorialA miniature almanac created in the 1770s, with a decorative case carved and painted to look like a bread roll; part of the “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day” exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York, on Nov. 30, 2022. (Jeen
EditorialCastle in a Landscape. Date/Period: 1770s. Architectural subject. Brushed black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper. Height: 248 mm (9.76 in); Width: 330 mm (12.99 in).
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Spirit of Taira no Masakado Disguised as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1775. Tamagawa Shunsui; Japanese, active c. 1770s. Date: 1770-17...
EditorialWaitress at a Seaside Teahouse. Katsukawa Shunko; Japanese, active c. 1770s-1800. Date: 1770-1800. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; hashira-e. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe eccentric Duchess of Queensbury fencing with her protégé the creole, Soubise (otherwise "Mungo".) Rare caricature by William Austin, published May 1, 1773. Collectanea: or, A collection of advertisements and paragraphs from the newspapers, relati...
EditorialThe Peacock Clock. Mechanical clock built by James Cox (c.1723-1800). 1770s. Gilded bronze. Pavilion Hall. Small Hermitage. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialThomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). English painter. Woman in Blue, late 1770s-early 1780s. Detail. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialDrawing of Castelnovo a fortified hilltop fort in Naples, Italy. In the 1770s. . Napoli citta? nobilissima, ... esposta a gli occhi ... de’curiosi, etc. Naples. Source: 10151.a.28 63. Language: Italian.