EditorialSampler, Mary Halbert, English, Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation; patches of cotton, 'Motto./ Letters were first designed to instruct and bless mankind/ Seize pupi...
EditorialCharles Mellin, Saints Anthony and Paul in the Desert, 1635, pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper, 5 1/2 in. x 7 1/16 in. (14 cm. x 18 cm.), This study depicts the meeting between Paul of Thebes, then 113 years old, and Anthony the Great, at age n...
EditorialRodolphe Bresdin, The Bather and Time, 1856, pen and black ink on tan tracing paper, mounted on cream wove paper, 4 in. x 2 13/16 in. (10.2 cm x 7.1 cm), Rodolphe Bresdin, one of the most visionary and eccentric graphic artists of the nineteenth centur...
EditorialMike Strizki at his home in Ringoes, N.J., Dec. 11, 2020, sitting on a hydrogen powered lawn mower which has a hydrogen tank attached to it and a solar panel on top. (Kat Slootsky/The New York Times)
EditorialYoung Man, Seated, in a Velvet Beret, after Rembrandt, 1857, Etching; only state, plate: 4 11/16 x 3 3/4 in. (11.9 x 9.5 cm), Prints, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), After Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606?1669 Amsterdam),...
EditorialYoung Man, Seated, in a Velvet Beret, after Rembrandt, 1857, Etching; only state, plate: 4 11/16 x 3 3/4 in. (11.9 x 9.5 cm), Prints, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), After Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606?1669 Amsterdam),...