EditorialThe prince, reading from a page of writing, perhaps a letter, is dressed in a cyclamen pink jama and green trousers with a gold turban and 'parka'. A chestnut saluki hound lies at his feet, and blossoming shrubs are on either side . c.1610. Opaque wate...
EditorialThe prince, reading from a page of writing, perhaps a letter, is dressed in a cyclamen pink jama and green trousers with a gold turban and 'parka'. A chestnut saluki hound lies at his feet, and blossoming shrubs are on either side . c.1610. Opaque wate...
EditorialFarrukh Siyyar receiving Husain 'Ali Khan. The emperor is enthroned on a garden terrace under a canopy. Husain 'Ali Khan stands before him holding an inscribed paper; a courtier is on the left with a 'chauri'. Johnson collection. c.1712-19. Opaque wate...
EditorialHalle aux Draps, Plate 61 from 'Vues Pittoresques des Princepaux ?difices de Paris', Les Campion Fr?res, Paris, France, J. A. Campion, French, active 1750 - 1800, Antoine-Louis-Fran?ois Sergent-Marceau, French, 1751 - 1847, Engraving and brush and wate...
EditorialPorte St. Denis, Plate 72 from 'Vues Pittoresques des Principaux ?difices de Paris', Les Campion Fr?res, Paris, France, J. A. Campion, French, active 1750 - 1800, Antoine-Louis-Fran?ois Sergent-Marceau, French, 1751 - 1847, Engraving and brush and wate...
EditorialArtist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 18521911, M.A., 1897, Portrait of an unidentified man- Male Figure in a?Cape, Graphite on paper, 14 ? 12.2 cm (5 1/2 ? 4 13/16?in.), Made in United States, American, 19th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
EditorialArtist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 18521911, M.A., 1897, Sketch for a verse: A Bucolick or Discovre of?Neatherds, Pen and ink, Wove, 34 ? 25 cm (13 3/8 ? 9 13/16?in.), Made in United States, American, 19th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
EditorialArtist, attributed to: Jan de Bisschop, Dutch, 16281671, Portrait Bust of?Democritus, 17th?century, Black chalk on tan paper, sheet: 27.3 ? 19.9 cm (10 3/4 ? 7 13/16?in.), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 17th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
EditorialStudy for an Allegory with River God and?Plenty, Pen and brown ink and black chalk with traces of white heightening on blue paper, Sheet: 39.2 ? 24.3 cm (15 7/16 ? 9 9/16?in.), Made in Flanders, Flemish, 17th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
EditorialArtist, copy after: Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), Italian, 15811641, Judith with the Head of?Holophernes, Pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper, 27.4 ? 22.3 cm (10 13/16 ? 8 3/4?in.), Italian, 17th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
EditorialArtist: John Trumbull, American, 17561843, Untitled, from folio: Sketches in France & Germany, one of 22 sheets in Folio?B, Graphite, 17.8 ? 10.7 cm (7 ? 4 3/16?in.), Made in United States, American, 18th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
EditorialArtist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 18521911, M.A., 1897, Figure with mandolin in mediaeval?costume., Charcoal and pastel, sheet: 78.4 ? 56.3 cm (30 7/8 ? 22 3/16?in.), Made in United States, American, 19th?century, Works on Paper - Drawings and?Wate...
Editorialtable, Anonymous, 17th century, painted, General: 4.5 x 184 x 90cm 45 x 1840 x 900mm, Table top of the cutter table, which according to tradition has been Jan van Leyden as a cutter. At the corners of the tabletop are markings of both sides of the 1534...
Editorialtable, Anonymous, 17th century, painted, General: 4.5 x 184 x 90cm 45 x 1840 x 900mm, Table top of the cutter table, which according to tradition has been Jan van Leyden as a cutter. At the corners of the tabletop are markings of both sides of the 1534...
EditorialFalstaff: 'I will esconce me behind the Arras', 1907 Frederick William Davis (d.1919), Frederick William Davis (1862-1919) worked chiefly in Birmingham, later in his career he accepted several commissions to paint scenes from Shakespeare's plays., Wate...
EditorialAttributed to John Lewis Krimmel, Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, American, Attributed to John Lewis Krimmel (17861821), Formerly attributed to Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/881839), 1811ca. 1813, American, Wate...
EditorialFarrukh Siyyar receiving Husain 'Ali Khan. The emperor is enthroned on a garden terrace under a canopy. Husain 'Ali Khan stands before him holding an inscribed paper; a courtier is on the left with a 'chauri'. Johnson collection. c.1712-19. Opaque wate...
EditorialProvoost staff of the St. Joris Doelen in Alkmaar, Turned stick with handle. On the long, non-profiled piece, four silver plates in the shape of coats of arms have been nailed: a crowned weapon (Prince Maurits), a weapon with a tilted tower behind wate...
EditorialTridacna serrifera, Print, Tridacna is a genus of large saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Tridacninae, the giant clams. They have heavy shells, fluted with 4 to 6 folds. The mantle is brightly coloured. They inhabit shallow wate...
EditorialPlate 50 from 'Caricaturana' (Les Robert Macaire). Published in le Charivari, May 28, 1837: Caricaturana (plate 50): Breach of Civil Code Article 24, 1837. Honor? Daumier (French, 1808-1879), Edouard Bouvenne (French). Lithograph hand-colored with wate...
EditorialFarrukh Siyyar receiving Husain 'Ali Khan. The emperor is enthroned on a garden terrace under a canopy. Husain 'Ali Khan stands before him holding an inscribed paper; a courtier is on the left with a 'chauri'. Johnson collection. c.1712-19. Opaque wate...
Editorial‘Mahva’ tree ‘(bassia latifolia)’ (Shiyam). Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque wate...
EditorialThe prince, reading from a page of writing, perhaps a letter, is dressed in a cyclamen pink jama and green trousers with a gold turban and 'parka'. A chestnut saluki hound lies at his feet, and blossoming shrubs are on either side . c.1610. Opaque wate...
EditorialAll the Workes of Iohn Taylor. All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet. Beei. Printed by I. B., for Iames Boler: London, 1630. Frontispiece of 'All the Workes of Iohn Taylor'. John Taylor (1580-1683).English poet and pamphleteer. Known as the wate...
EditorialFarrukh Siyyar receiving Husain 'Ali Khan. The emperor is enthroned on a garden terrace under a canopy. Husain 'Ali Khan stands before him holding an inscribed paper; a courtier is on the left with a 'chauri'. Johnson collection. c.1712-19. Opaque wate...
Editorial‘Mahva’ tree ‘(bassia latifolia)’ (Shiyam). Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque wate...
EditorialThe prince, reading from a page of writing, perhaps a letter, is dressed in a cyclamen pink jama and green trousers with a gold turban and 'parka'. A chestnut saluki hound lies at his feet, and blossoming shrubs are on either side . c.1610. Opaque wate...
EditorialSulfur rose, Rosa hemisphaerica, Rosier jaune de souffre. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Pierre Joseph Redoute's "Les Roses," Paris, 1828. Redoute was botanical artist to Marie Antoinette and Empress Josephine. He painted over 170 wate...