EditorialQuatre Parties du monde, Joseph Gaspard Picart, Medium: silk Technique: damask, Panel of pale yellow silk damask with design of allegorical figures representing the Four Continents. Asia is depicted as a man seated on a camel carrying an open parasol, ...
EditorialCourt of the lion. The Fables of ?sop and others. Translated into hum. W. Kent & Co.: London, 1857. A man is tried at court for the ill treatment of a horse. The horse has a shark for his solicitor, and a fox, ape and vulture for council. The defendan...
EditorialThe Ape Tied in a Courtyard. Jean de Gourmont; French, 1506-1551. Date: 1520-1530. Dimensions: 85 ? 84 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Engraving in black on cream laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialMother Ape, 1595?96, Italian, Pesaro, Bronze, Overall (confirmed): H. 25 1/8 x W. 13 x D. 20 5/8 in., 192lb. (63.8 x 33 x 52.4 cm, 876kg), Sculpture-Bronze, A tailless barbary ape performs a mother?s balancing act. With her long arms she originally clu...