EditorialPortrait of Princess Elisabeth of Saxony. Date/Period: 1564. Paper. Brush, sketched in brown, face and plait of hair executed in oils; paper prepared with light pink oil paint Brush, sketched in brown, face and plait of hair executed in oils; paper pre...
EditorialPortrait of a Chinese Pilot. Portrait of a man with a thin moustache and his hair in a plait rolled around the top of his shaved head, dressed in knee-length wide trousers and a loose long-sleeved chemise, full-length smoking a long pipe and sitting cr...
EditorialEnd of Psalm 32. Psalm 33 beginning with decorated initial 'B'. Border decoration including a clerk catching a bird in a snare. Lower margin; a lady at her toilet. She sits tying her hair in a long plait, a gold comb in her lap. A maid kneels on a flat...
Editorial[Detail] Lower margin. A lady attended by her maid, who holds a circular mirror.The lady ties her hair in a long plait, and has a gold comb in her lap; her jewel box lies on the ground, at her feet. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1...
EditorialA naked young man; a plait; tufts of hair. Die Nigritier. Eine anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie, etc. Berlin, Leipzig [printed], 1876, etc. Source: 10006.g.4, plate XXV. Language: German.
EditorialPortrait of a Chinese Pilot. Portrait of a man with a thin moustache and his hair in a plait rolled around the top of his shaved head, dressed in knee-length wide trousers and a loose long-sleeved chemise, full-length smoking a long pipe and sitting cr...
EditorialPortrait of Princess Elisabeth of Saxony. Date/Period: 1564. Paper. Brush, sketched in brown, face and plait of hair executed in oils; paper prepared with light pink oil paint Brush, sketched in brown, face and plait of hair executed in oils; paper pre...
EditorialHonor? Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879). Pour les pauvres petits sergens de ville et pour les soldats de la rue Transnonain, s'il vous plait., 1834. From Magasin Charivarique. Wood engraving on newsprint paper. Image: 280 mm x 170 mm (11.02 in. x 6.69 in....
EditorialJudith of Bavaria, Queen of Louis I, France, 842. In crown, veil, velvet cape and dress lined with gold embroidery. Hair worn in a long plait. Handcoloured lithograph from Thomas Hailes Lacy's "Female Costumes Historical, National and Dramatic in 200 P...
EditorialStatuette of a girl holding a khol pot, 12th dynasty, 1963-1787 BCE. The small black steatite figurine shows a young girl, squatting and holding a pot, most probably black khol, used as eye paint. The pot had a lid and shows signs of wear. The girl has...