EditorialDissolute woman being put to the finger rack punishment, Qing Dynasty. The mandarin crushes her fingers in a wooden rack. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptist...
EditorialDissolute woman being put to the finger rack punishment, Qing Dynasty. The mandarin crushes her fingers in a wooden rack. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptist...
EditorialThe penalty for a dissolute life, Parallel Title: Bestraffelte Leichtfertigkeiten, Signed: M. Tyroff sculps, Copperplate, Plate CCCLI (Vol. 2), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Tyroff, Martin (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspu...
EditorialThe Moon Goddess Chang E, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 53 5/8 x 23 1/8 in. (136.2 x 58.7 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist, After Tang Yin (Chinese, 1470?1524), A supremely gifted scholar and painter...