EditorialNapkin with the history of the Lost Son, Napkin of linen damask with the history of the Lost Son. Midfield: the symmetrically doubled pattern shows six scenes from bottom to top: 1 The father addresses the eldest son in the court, 2 The father says goo...
EditorialA Man Caressing the Young Hostess. Cornelis Pietersz Bega; Dutch, 1631/32-1664. Date: 1660-1664. Dimensions: 198 x 165 mm (image); 226 x 173 mm (sheet, trimmed within platemark). Etching in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Netherlands.
EditorialBeauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase): the Hostess of the Izumiya Teahouse. Rekisentei Eiri; Japanese, active c. 1781-1818. Date: 1790-1800. Dimensions: 37.4 x 25.0 cm. Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNinon de l'Enclos, French author, courtesan and salon hostess, 1615-1705. She wears her hair loose in ringlets, a low-cut mantua dress with bodice and skirt in green velvet decorated with bows, and a scarlet petticoat with gold ines. After a miniature ...
EditorialMarion de Lorme, salon hostess, courtesan, lover of the poet Des Barreaux and Cardinal Richelieu, 1613-1650. She wears her hair loose in ringlets, a pearl necklace, low-cut dress in pink silk with lace frills. After a miniature on vellum in the editor'...
EditorialThe Countess of Blessington. [A collection of engraved and lithographed Portrai. [1610?-1860?]. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, née Marguerite Power (1789-1849). Irish literary hostess, memoirist and novelist. Portrait. Image taken from...
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, The Hostess, Artist, George Overbury Pop Hart, American, Cairo, Illinois 1868?1933 New York, Hart, George Overbury Pop, American, 1868, 1933, 1924.
Editorial[Cavorting by the Pool at Garsington], ca. 1916, Gelatin silver print, 8.8 x 6.3 cm (3 7/16 x 2 7/16 in.), Photographs, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck Morrell (British, 1873?1938), Rebelling against the narrow values of upper-class Edward...
EditorialNinon de l'Enclos, French author, courtesan and salon hostess, 1615-1705. She wears her hair loose in ringlets, a low-cut mantua dress with bodice and skirt in green velvet decorated with bows, and a scarlet petticoat with gold ines. After a miniature ...
EditorialMarion de Lorme, salon hostess, courtesan, lover of the poet Des Barreaux and Cardinal Richelieu, 1613-1650. She wears her hair loose in ringlets, a pearl necklace, low-cut dress in pink silk with lace frills. After a miniature on vellum in the editor'...
EditorialBOARDING HOUSE LIFE: 1. Sometimes there is a great scarcity of men (on one occasion the proportion was 7 to 1), the one being in great request until it was discovered that he was married. 2. It is decidedly uncomfortable, when there are two parsons sto...