EditorialThe Thatch-Roofed Farmhouse, from Revue Fantaisiste. Rodolphe Bresdin; French, 1825-1885. Date: 1861. Dimensions: 108 ? 90 mm (plate); 201 ? 149 mm (sheet). Etching on cream China paper laid down on white wove paper. Origin: France.
EditorialInterior of the Small Theatre or Odeon, Pompeii VIII.7.19. The audience in the roofed theater watches a performance by actors, chorus, musicians and dancers. Chromolithograph by Dietrich after an illustration by C. Gel from Antonio Niccolini?s Pompeii:...
EditorialSimla, Elysium Hill, the Snowy Range, the Peaks of the Greater and Lesser Shali. This view was made from the verandah of Rothney House, recently purchased by Arnold Matthews and formerly the Simla Bank. Immediately below is the Snowdon Estate, comprisi...
EditorialSimla, Elysium Hill, the Snowy Range, the Peaks of the Greater and Lesser Shali. This view was made from the verandah of Rothney House, recently purchased by Arnold Matthews and formerly the Simla Bank. Immediately below is the Snowdon Estate, comprisi...
EditorialA view of a lake or river with four islands or extensions of the mainland with trees and buildings, linked by bridges and roofed gateways. Hills in the distance and a rocky landscape beyond. The way like the Herb Chi, and the Banks like the Clouds of H...
EditorialA view of a park with a two-storey building and adjoining roofed enclosure surrounding a garden near mounds and a low hill on the right, with a man picking fruit from a tree on an island in the foreground. Ships and boats sailing on a lake or river bey...
EditorialA view of a river in a hilly landscape crossed by two bridges, one leading to a roofed gateway on the opposite bank with a group of figures sitting outside a pavilion among trees and a boathouse. Fishermen, water plants and a moored boat in the foregro...
EditorialAn offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Drawn by John Webber; the landscape engraving by Samuel Middiman; the figures by John Hall. A scene in Hawaii in 1778. Hawaiian men are seated on the ground around four European men, and are offe...
EditorialElysium Hill, Simla, and the Government House of Former Years, &c. Sunrise. The view for the frontispiece was sketched by Mrs. Scott at sunrise in front of Ballyhack, just above the Church of Simla. The snowy ranges of the Himalayas are in the far dist...
EditorialHerdsmen travelling with cows and oxes down a road in the outskirts of Rome, with a roofed circular building in ruins on the right. Landscape with ruins, Rome. [Rome?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1794]. Hand-coloured etching. Source: M...
EditorialA view of a lake or river with birds and fishermen on the left and a bridge leading to a flat piece of land with trees, large boulders on the water's edge and a small pagoda and a roofed gateway on two posts on the right. Water plants on the shoreline ...
Editorial[Lower scene] In centre, a oval roofed oven with two openings containing pans for melting. One glassblower dips his long pipe into the molten mass, and the other is blowing. On the left is an extension for cooling the glass, and on the other side an as...
EditorialTravellers on a roofed boat sailing on Lake Biel in the foreground, with a view of St. Peter's Island in the background. 2nd View of the Island of St. Peter, on the Lake of Bienne in Swisserland : The residence of J. J. Rousseau Anno 1765. [London?] : ...
EditorialWaheiadooa, Chief of Oheitepeha, lying in state, recorded by Captain Cook during his visit to Tahiti on 19th August 1777. A funerary stage supports the shrouded corpse and an attendant. They are sheltered by a grass-roofed awning, and surrounded by a l...
EditorialA detail and section of the east wall of Fort William and Mary, with the Piscataqua River on the left, a two-storey roofed guardhouse attached to the wall, a cannon propped up on a wooden platform beside and a large British flag flying above. The Profi...
EditorialPleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ohashi Bridge, ?????????, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1792, Japan, Pentaptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, 15 3/8 x 49 7/8 in. (39.1 x 126.7 cm), Prints, Chobunsai Eishi (Japane...
EditorialThe Evening Chime of the Clock, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1766, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; chuban; ink and color on paper, H. 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm); W. 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725?1770), The orderly compositio...
EditorialTile Roofed Building with an Arcade (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 31 recto), 1774?75 (?), Graphite, gray ink and wash, Sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (23.4 x 17.1 cm), Drawings, Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734?1797 Derby).
EditorialLandscape With a Farmyard, Thatched-Roofed Buildings and a Peasant Woman, n.d., Red chalk, 7 7/16 x 11 1/8 in. (18.9 x 28.2 cm), Drawings, Anonymous, French, 18th century.
EditorialInterior of the Small Theatre or Odeon, Pompeii VIII.7.19. The audience in the roofed theater watches a performance by actors, chorus, musicians and dancers. Chromolithograph by Dietrich after an illustration by C. Gel from Antonio Niccolini?s Pompeii:...
EditorialEnpo no kihan, Returning sails from distant shores., Sekkyo, Sawa, active 1790-1818, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 17.1 x 23 cm., Print shows a cluster of thatch-roofed and more substantial buildings in a coastal village, ...
EditorialSanshi no seiran, Evening storm over the mountain village., Sekkyo, Sawa, active 1790-1818, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 17.4 x 23 cm., Print shows a cluster of thatch-roofed buildings in a mountain village and villagers,...
EditorialKatada no rakugan, Descending geese at Katada., Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, [between 1804 and 1810], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 23.1 x 17.3 cm., Print shows a bird's-eye view of a coastline with a thatch-roofed structure at the end of a lon...
EditorialKatada no rakugan, Descending geese at Katada., Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, [between 1804 and 1810], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 23.1 x 17.3 cm., Print shows a bird's-eye view of a coastline with a thatch-roofed structure at the end of a lon...
EditorialEnpo no kihan, Returning sails from distant shores., Sekkyo, Sawa, active 1790-1818, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 17.1 x 23 cm., Print shows a cluster of thatch-roofed and more substantial buildings in a coastal village, ...
EditorialSanshi no seiran, Evening storm over the mountain village., Sekkyo, Sawa, active 1790-1818, artist, [between 1804 and 1818], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 17.4 x 23 cm., Print shows a cluster of thatch-roofed buildings in a mountain village and villagers,...
EditorialDruidic Awenydd (Bardic disciple) and novice, from the pre-Roman era. In the background are British straw-roofed wooden cabins. The disciple carries a cup and a dove, bird of good omen. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles...