EditorialDartford, Kent. Details of this drawing are corrected in heavy black ink with crosses placed over incorrect field boundaries and communication routes. Red pecked lines form a grid over the drawing. These are triangulation lines, which the draughtsman u...
EditorialJulia Jackson, 1867, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 27.4 x 20.6 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.), Photographs, Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815?1879 Kalutara, Ceylon), The effusive, eccentric associate of Carlyle, Hersche...
EditorialVertical Pendant with Boys in a Lotus Scroll, Song (960?1279) or early Ming (1368?1644) dynasty, 12th?14th century, China, Silk gauze with supplementary weft patterning, 11 x 46 1/2 in. (27.9 x 118.1 cm), Textiles-Woven, The design of boys in a lotus s...
EditorialTiraz Fragment with Inscription, 9th century, Made in Egypt, Wool, linen; tapestry weave, Textile: H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm), Textiles-Woven, This fragment was produced in a Tulunid workshop of the Nile Delta. Like Coptic textiles, it is tapestry woven. The...
EditorialBeaker, 15th century, German, Glass, Overall: 4 1/8 x 3 1/16 in. (10.5 x 7.8 cm), Glass-Vessels, This type of stocky vessel, known as a Krautstrunk (literally, cabbage stalk), was one of the most common forms of drinking glass in Germany during the lat...
EditorialStudies for a Circular Composition of Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing (recto); Studies for the Same Composition (verso), 1529?66, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (27.3 x 20.7 cm), Drawings, Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, Sant'...
EditorialMarble portrait head of Antinoos, Late Hadrianic, ca. A.D. 130?138, Roman, Marble, Height: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm), Stone Sculpture, This head is almost certainly from a monumental statue of Antinoos. Characteristically, the head is turned slightly to the...
EditorialTerracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm), Vases, Obverse, woman pouring libation for Athena, Reverse, youth. It is impossible to determine whether the woman pouring ...
EditorialThe Music Master, 1855, Illustrations: wood engraving, 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. (17.5 x 11.5 cm), Books, Rossetti?s first published illustration was made for this volume to accompany the poem The Maids of Elfin-mere. Characteristically, the image focuses on a...
EditorialJar with Abstract Decoration, Jin dynasty (1115?1234), late 12th?early 13th century, China, Stoneware painted with iron oxide over black glaze, H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); Diam. 11 in. (27.9 cm), Ceramics, The dramatic, abstract design may be read as allud...
EditorialFisherman's God, Polynesian, (late 18th- early 19th?).The short, squat figure is a typical example of the so-called "fisherman's god", mounted at the front of ebery fishing canoe on Rarotonga, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific.The wood carve...