EditorialOnline retailer JD Williams reveals its first inspirational leisurewear collaboration with womankind brand ambassador Davina McCall for January 2022
EditorialPrince and Ladies in a Garden, mid-18th century, Made in India, Lucknow, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 10 5/8 x 7 3/8in. (27 x 18.7cm), Codices, Nidha Mal, This scene of leisure typifies the gracious style of later Mughal painting practice...
EditorialWilliam James Glackens: The Bathing Hour, Chester, Nova Scotia, William James Glackens, 1910, Oil on canvas, William Glackens spent the summer of 1910 in Chester, Nova Scotia, painting the scenery and daily life around him. Here he captures the pleasur...
EditorialWilliam James Glackens: The Bathing Hour, Chester, Nova Scotia, William James Glackens, 1910, Oil on canvas, William Glackens spent the summer of 1910 in Chester, Nova Scotia, painting the scenery and daily life around him. Here he captures the pleasur...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Henriot Family (La Famille Henriot), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1875, Oil on canvas, Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late nineteenth century. Renoir alludes to this kind of acti...
EditorialWilliam James Glackens: The Bathing Hour, Chester, Nova Scotia, William James Glackens, 1910, Oil on canvas, William Glackens spent the summer of 1910 in Chester, Nova Scotia, painting the scenery and daily life around him. Here he captures the pleasur...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Henriot Family (La Famille Henriot), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1875, Oil on canvas, Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late nineteenth century. Renoir alludes to this kind of acti...
EditorialWilliam James Glackens: The Bathing Hour, Chester, Nova Scotia, William James Glackens, 1910, Oil on canvas, William Glackens spent the summer of 1910 in Chester, Nova Scotia, painting the scenery and daily life around him. Here he captures the pleasur...
Editorial'A sage pointing at the moon', Japan, Edo period, 1817. This smiling sage reclines while pointing to the full moon. At his side is a drinking vessel and what appears to be some paper or a scroll. In the second half of the Edo period, especially during ...
EditorialCourtesans at Leisure (from the series The Six Immortal Poets), c. early 1780s. Katsukawa Shunzan (Japanese). Color woodblock print; sheet: 25.4 x 18.8 cm (10 x 7 3/8 in.).
EditorialThe title of this map of London appears at the top of the plate, flanked by Tudor and city arms. A note on the history of London features at bottom left and on the Steelyard at bottom right. Illustrated figures of merchants appear at bottom centre. Mer...
EditorialThe new race-course at Sandown Park. Sandown Park is a horse racing course and leisure venue in Esher, Surrey, England. Sandown Park was one of the first courses to charge all for attending. It opened in 1875 and everyone had to pay at least half a cr...
EditorialMirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute, 6th?7th century, India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir), Chlorite schist, H. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm), Sculpture, This figurine belongs to a group of objects depicting ladies at leisure; here, the w...
EditorialSeated Woman Holding a Fan, ca7, Red, black, and white chalk, 8 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (21.3 x 20.6 cm), Drawings, Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684?1721 Nogent-sur-Marne), Watteau was most famous for his f?tes galantes?scenes of aristocratic and the...
EditorialStudy for 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte', 1884, Oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 41 in. (70.5 x 104.1 cm), Paintings, Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859?1891 Paris), This is Seurat?s final study for his monumental painting of Parisians at leisure on an island in...
EditorialPrince and Ladies in a Garden, mid-18th century, Made in India, Lucknow, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 10 5/8 x 7 3/8in. (27 x 18.7cm), Codices, Nidha Mal, This scene of leisure typifies the gracious style of later Mughal painting practice...
EditorialJar with Women at Leisure, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), Shunzhi period (1644?61), mid-17th century, China, Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. with cover 19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm); Diam. at mouth 7 5/8 in. (19.4 ...
EditorialWest-Berliners, cooped up in their city surrounded by East-German territory, spent their leisure at the lakes within city limits. Young people at the beach of Wannsee Lake. Berlin 1958.
Editorial'A sage pointing at the moon', Japan, Edo period, 1817. This smiling sage reclines while pointing to the full moon. At his side is a drinking vessel and what appears to be some paper or a scroll. In the second half of the Edo period, especially during ...