EditorialChevalier De Malthe, Costume Allemand (title on object), Man in costume of a German knight of the Maltese Order, 16th century. Presentation added to the sheet metal work on the costumed ball held at the palace of the Prince of Orange (the later King Wi...
EditorialSeated Tahitian Women (related to the painting Nafea faa ipoipo [When Will You Marry?]) and Other Sketches. Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1891-1893. Dimensions: 248 ? 200 mm. Black fabricated chalk and pen and brown ink (originally purple), wi...
EditorialEmblem 8; father expels lovers. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Emblem drawing of three figures standing among trees; the father, a bearded old man with outstretched arm, orders away the young lovers.The young girl wi...
EditorialEmblem 55; chained man. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Emblem drawing of a bearded impassive man with his legs folded close, and his hands and feet bound by a large chain that loops around the mountain behind him; wi...
EditorialWi - Jun - Jon. Going to Washington. Returning to is home. An Assinboin chief. Title of te original work is : Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning From Washington. . Catlin's North American Indian portfolio : hunting scene...
EditorialAssinboine chief Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head, in traditional costume of goatskin shirt and leggings, buffalo skin robe decorated with scalp-locks, and eagle feather headdress and in western dress after visiting Washington. Handcoloured lithograph fro...
EditorialSioux chiefs: warrior Tehan-dee, Tobacco 92, chief of the Yanc-ton band Toh-ki-ee-to, Stone with Horns, with neck and arms tattooed in gunpowder and vermilion 93. Sioux daughter of Black Rock, Wi-looh-tah-eeh-tchah-ta-mah-nee, Red Thing that Touches in...
EditorialMen and women of the Assiniboine nation: son of a chief, Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head, 28 and his wife Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug that Creeps, 29. Warrior Bro-cas-sie, Broken Arm, 30 and his squaw 31. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, ...
EditorialAttic black-figure neck-amphora with member. Decoration of A. 2 horsemen fighting over a dead body of a hoplite, and B. a naked boy riding a horse, between 2 hoplites. Group of Munich 1501, Painter of London B 272. Potmark. Attic black figurine neck wi...
EditorialWallpaper of green velout? with pattern of tendrils with leaf and foliage, A box with velout? wallpaper that shows a pattern of green velout? with red and light green fillings on an off-white background. The pattern consists of large, heavy tendrils wi...
EditorialPsalm 106; boy stealing cherries. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 106. Decorative line-fillers; the top one illustrating a strawberry bed, showing both fruit and blossom. In the outer margin, a grotesque wi...
Editorial?mier? ksi?cia Józefa'. (Death of Józef). Prince Poniatowski was drowned trying to cross the River Elstermuhlgraben, after a retreat from Leipzig. Ksió?z?ó? Józef (Prince Józef). Ilustracye kolorowe pod?ug obrazów Br. Gembarzewskiego. [Wi...
Editorial[Kazusa Kanozan], Mount Kano in Kazusa Province., Ando, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist, [Tokyo] : Tsuta-ya Kichizo, 1858., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36 x 24.6 cm., Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji across Yedo Bay seen from Rokusozan, Kazusa, wi...
Editorial[Kazusa Kanozan], Mount Kano in Kazusa Province., Ando, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist, [Tokyo] : Tsuta-ya Kichizo, 1858., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36 x 24.6 cm., Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji across Yedo Bay seen from Rokusozan, Kazusa, wi...
EditorialOldrado da Tresseno, Podesta or Mayor of Milan, 13th century. He wears a blue cape with gold clasp at the shoulder, pink tunic, yellow stockings, gold spurs. From an equestrian statue. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri wi...