EditorialL'Orage (The Storm). Dated: 1879. Dimensions: plate: 14.9 x 22.6 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 16.4 x 23.9 cm (6 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.). Medium: drypoint and roulette with isolated areas of etching and possibly salt lift in black, touched in pen and black...
EditorialL'Orage (The Storm). Dated: 1879. Dimensions: plate: 15.1 x 22.7 cm (5 15/16 x 8 15/16 in.) sheet: 27.6 x 36.9 cm (10 7/8 x 14 1/2 in.). Medium: drypoint and roulette with isolated areas of etching and possibly salt lift in black on Japanese paper.
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.
EditorialRelief of a Bishop, ca. 1400?1440, South Netherlandish, Limestone, Overall (w/o mount): 20 7/8 x 9 3/16 x 2 13/16 in. (53 x 23.4 x 7.2 cm), Sculpture-Stone, This profile image of a bishop, carved in the dark limestone characteristic of the South Lowlan...
EditorialTerracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), Classical, ca. 450?440 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm); diameter 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, woman pouring libation for warrior, Reverse, man with staff. The subject of ...
EditorialIsolated View of Bernini's Baldacchino. Plate 39 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano', 1653?91, Engraving, Plate: 26 1/2 x 14 7/16 in. (67.3 x 36.6 cm), After Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598?1680 Rome), Isolated view of the Bal...
Editorial????? ???? ??????, A Young Man and Woman with a Shamisen; Monk Saigyo, from a series alluding to the Three Evening Poems (Sanseki waka), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1768, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/6 x 8 1/4 in. (28...
EditorialStela of Kemes, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 13, ca. 1750?1720 BC, From Egypt, Limestone, L. 66.2 cm (26 1/16 in.); H. 73.4 cm (28 7/8 in.); W. 33.9 cm (13 3/8 in.), This monument, dedicated to a man named Kemes, is a rare example of a memorial stela with a...
Editorial'Mihran Sitad Chooses a Daughter of the Khaqan of Chin', Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, ca. 1330?40, Attributed to Iran, probably Isfahan, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, Page: 8 1/16 x 5 1/4 in. (20.5 x 13.3 cm),...
EditorialA Large Tree, 1615?73, Pen and brown ink, on brown paper, 24 3/16 x 16 7/16in. (61.5 x 41.8cm), Drawings, Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615?1673 Rome), Of his myriad achievements as an artist and man of letters, the brilliant and moody Sal...
EditorialLA TOSCA AT THE GARRICK THEATRE, THE SCENE BETWEEN LA TOSCA AND THE GOVERNOR OF ST. ANGELO, ACT III. LONDON UK 1889. show, theater, entertainment, drama, play, stage, performance, theatrical, acting, actor, dramatic, isolated.
EditorialThe sour prospect before us, or The ins throwing up State, Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher, [England] : Pub by W. Dent [date illegible] 1789 : Sold by W Moore, No. 308 Oxford Street, 1789., 1 print : etching with aquatint., Ministers, seven ...
EditorialThe sour prospect before us, or The ins throwing up State, Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher, [England] : Pub by W. Dent [date illegible] 1789 : Sold by W Moore, No. 308 Oxford Street, 1789., 1 print : etching with aquatint., Ministers, seven ...
EditorialOPENING OF THE MAIDSTONE BRANCH RAILWAY, OPENING OF THE BRANCH RAILWAY FROM THE DOVER LINE TO MAIDSTONE, 1844, SEPTEMBER 28; Newton, of Wingham, writing of the "King's town" of Maidstone, in 1741, says, "The country almost every where round the town is...
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 ...
EditorialPair of gold earrings from Korea, Silla dynasty, 5th-6th centuries. This pair of gold earrings appears to have been worn with strings around the ear lobe. Both the custom of wearing earrings, and the technique of granulation are thought have come to Ko...
EditorialThe legend of King Arthur. Cadbury" Castle", a Celtic Iron age hill-fort in Somerset, is reputed to be Camelot, King Arthur's court and principal citadel. Recently, digs have revealed the foundations of a large timber-hall. The isolated limes...
EditorialThe Crusader fortress Shobeq, called Montreal by Baudoin I, king of Jerusalem and his knights. Built in 1115, fell to Saladin in 1188 and was enlarged and its fortifications improved under Ayyubids and Mamluks. The fortress on an isolated hill.