EditorialOnline retailer JD Williams reveals its first inspirational leisurewear collaboration with womankind brand ambassador Davina McCall for January 2022
EditorialOver 1,200 of Hollywoods biggest blockbuster film Artifacts and 20th and 21st century screen gems including John Travoltas Pulp Fiction suit and casino chips from James Bond film Casino Royale to dazzle the auction block
EditorialNegative - Soldiers of the 39th Battalion Standing at Ease During a Parade, Ballarat, Victoria, circa 1915, Soldiers of the 39th Battalion standing at ease during a parade in Ballarat. The Ballarat Town Hall is in the background.
EditorialGreen Tara, Seated in Pose of Royal Ease (Lalitasana), with Lotus Stalks on Right Shoulder and Hands in Gestures of Reasoning (Vitarkamudra) and Gift Conferring (Varadamudra). China. Date: 1403-1424. Dimensions: 21.5 ? 13.5 ? 12.5 cm (8 1/2 ? 5 1/4 ? 4...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles, Classical, ca. 400 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14 1/16 in. (35.8 cm), Vases, Obverse, combat of Greeks against Amazons, Reverse, three youths. This vase is complementary in its main...
EditorialTerracotta kylix (drinking cup), Archaic, ca. 510 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm), Vases, Komast (reveler) with skyphos (deep drinking cup) and oinochoe (jug). Among the very early red-figure artists who specialized in...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of a woman, Hellenistic, 3rd century B.C., Greek, Boeotian, Terracotta, H.: 10 9/16 in. (26.9 cm), Terracottas, The use of molds and the plastic medium of terracotta allowed Greek sculptors to explore variations on a theme with rel...
EditorialSOME STRAY NOTES AT THE AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION, THE NETHERLANDS, 1883: 1. A Turkish Merchant Selling Perfume. 2. Visitors from the Island of Marken in the Zuider Zee. 3 and 5. Houses and Boats from the Dutch Colonies in the Ease Indies. 4. A Building in ...
EditorialPaul Gauguin: Haere Pape, Paul Gauguin, 1892, Oil on canvas, Fed up with industrialized Europe, Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 seeking a simpler, more 'primitive' way of life, one uncorrupted by modern technology and uptight social mores. Although...
EditorialGreen Tara, Seated in Pose of Royal Ease (Lalitasana), with Lotus Stalks on Right Shoulder and Hands in Gestures of Reasoning (Vitarkamudra) and Gift Conferring (Varadamudra). China. Date: 1403-1424. Dimensions: 21.5 ? 13.5 ? 12.5 cm (8 1/2 ? 5 1/4 ? 4...
EditorialGreen Tara, Seated in Pose of Royal Ease (Lalitasana), with Lotus Stalks on Right Shoulder and Hands in Gestures of Reasoning (Vitarkamudra) and Gift Conferring (Varadamudra). China. Date: 1403-1424. Dimensions: 21.5 ? 13.5 ? 12.5 cm (8 1/2 ? 5 1/4 ? 4...
EditorialMrs Frances Johnson (1725-1812). The 'Begum' Johnson. A half-length portrait. Known as ‘Begum Johnson’ she queened it over Calcutta society and was renowned for her ‘dignified and generous hospitality’. Her obituary noted that ‘she abounded i...
EditorialThe ceremony of bedding the bridegroom and bride on the evening of the second day of Teritte Kallyanum. The bridal pair, still dressed in their finery, take their ease on a silver bed with four posts and curtains, chewing betel, while in the courtyard ...
EditorialDuring the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Magna Carta was frequently copied into cartularies, chronicles and collections of statutes, for use by lawyers and administrators. In some cases, only the most recent version of the Magna Carta was re...
EditorialIllustrated title page of 'The Parliament of Women'. The Parliament of Women. With the merrie lawes by them newly enacted to live in more ease, pompe, pride and wantonnesse, etc. [A satire.].. London, 1646. Source: E.1150.(5), title page. Language: Eng...
EditorialMrs Frances Johnson (1725-1812). The 'Begum' Johnson. A half-length portrait. Known as ‘Begum Johnson’ she queened it over Calcutta society and was renowned for her ‘dignified and generous hospitality’. Her obituary noted that ‘she abounded i...
EditorialA Chinese porter, or carrier. The Costume of China. Illustrated in forty-eight c. William Miller: London, 1805. When the wind was favourable, the driver would use a sail to ease his burden. On the cart are vegetables; fruit; loose bamboos, and a jar of...