EditorialThe Belogradchik Rocks are a group of bizarre sandstone and limestone rock formations above the Danube valley, reaching up to 200 m in height. The Magura caves with their strange cave paintings lie in these rugged mountains.
Editorial???, Landscape, Edo period (1615?1868), first half of the 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 53 7/8 ? 12 1/2 in. (136.8 ? 31.8 cm), Paintings, Yanagisawa Kien (Japanese, 1704?1758), Although the landscape is packed with...
EditorialA Female Musician Charms an Antelope, ca. 1825, Western India, Rajasthan, Kota, Ink and opaque watercolor on cloth, 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (25.1 x 19.7 cm), Paintings, The rugged, inhospitable terrain of Rajasthan, a favorite setting for Kota court artists,...
EditorialSewing steps, ca. 1842, Made in New Lebanon, New York, United States, American, Shaker, Pine, 11 x 9 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (27.9 x 23.5 x 27.3 cm), Furniture, Sewing steps provided a resting place for the feet of Shaker sisters while they were seated during...
Editorial?, ???, ??????, ?, Dragon Pine on Mount Huang, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), ca. 1660, China, Hanging scroll; ink and pale color on paper, Image: 76 1/4 x 31 in. (193.7 x 78.7 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist, After Hongren (Chinese, 1610?1664), This mo...
EditorialOgi to inro, Inro and fan., Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850, artist, [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 20.8 x 18.5 cm., Print shows a fan, with landscape painting of rugged coastline, trees, and mountains, next to a small purse.
EditorialOgi to inro, Inro and fan., Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850, artist, [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 20.8 x 18.5 cm., Print shows a fan, with landscape painting of rugged coastline, trees, and mountains, next to a small purse.
EditorialTHE COLQUHOUN-WAHAB EXPEDITION THROUGH CHINA, SCENES ON THE CANTON RIVER: 1. In the Shau-Hing Gorge: "The Expectant Wife."; 2. Enlarged Sketch of "The Expectant Wife."; 3. View of the Pak-Shik-Shan, or "White Stone Mountain," from Tai-Wong; 4. Another ...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...