EditorialSidewall - fragment, Block-printed on handmade paper, a) Obverse: A mythological scene of three classic figures in grisaille representing a bacchic scene, Youth with a thyrus holding up Bacchus whose fallen empty drinking cup is on the ground. Maenade ...
EditorialPleated fan, Paper leaf with hand-colored engraving, ivory sticks, wood guards Background print appears to be block printed. The fan probably opriginally had metallic spangles that have deteriorated and fallen off, leaving remnants of tarnished metal i...
EditorialPompe fun?bre dElisabeth Th?r?se de Lorraine Reine de Sardaigne, en l?glise de Notre Dame de Paris le XXIIE. SEPTEMBRE M.DCC.XXXXI. (Funeral of Elisabeth Th?r?se of Lorraine, Queen of Sardinia, in the Church of Notre Dame of Paris the 22nd of September...
EditorialPoniard of Justus Klinkhamer, presented to Jan van Speijk Ponjaard of J. Klinkhamer, lieutenant at sea 2nd class given to Van Speijk, Ponjaard mounted in gilt brass, ivory handle. The blade is etched with leaf vines and blued and gilded. The weapon, wh...
EditorialAnna-to-three, Anna, sitting frontally on a couch, leans slightly to the left towards the smaller Maria, who sits next to her in profile on a cushion on a folding chair. She holds a bunch of grapes in her left hand (for the missing child) and has a boo...