EditorialCase for an animal mummy topped by a falcon, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.); W. 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.); L. 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.), The falcon god Horus stands with his wings swept back. He has a...
EditorialNative Americans of Nootka. Nootka man with tattooed brow and nose ring, men and women in woven hats, animal-skin cloaks, earrings and facial piercings, and baby in papoose. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and...
EditorialChugach man of Prince William's Sound in conical decorated hat, nose ornament, and labrets of walrus ivory in his lower lip. Nootka man with tattooed brow and nose ring (both from Captain Cook's Voyages). Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinri...
EditorialMemorial head, possibly of an Oba (king). Wood, with metal squares on the brow. Offerings were placed in the opening at the top of the head. From Benin H: 45 cm.
EditorialDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams wipes her brow after a campaign event at Allen’s Market Building in Milledgeville, Ga. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar /The New York Times)
EditorialStatuette of Isis nursing Horus (missing above the legs), inscribed for Hor son of Padihorresnet, Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, 611?594 B.C., From Egypt, Bronze, gilded silver, electrum; separate leaded bronze throne, H. 39.3 ? W. 12.3 ? D. 18.8 cm (...
EditorialRoad Through a Village. Th?ophile-Alexandre Steinlen; French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923. Date: 1902. Dimensions: 211 ? 287 mm (image/plate); 313 ? 452 mm (sheet). Soft ground etching from two zinc plates in 3 colors (dark green, bright green and brow...
EditorialSummer: Cat on a Balustrade. Th?ophile-Alexandre Steinlen; French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923. Date: 1909. Dimensions: 489 ? 597 mm (image); 504 ? 628 mm (sheet). Lithograph (brush, crayon and spatter with scraper) in pink/mauve, violet black and brow...
EditorialNave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893?94, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903, France, Wood-block print in residual brown and black inks, with selective wiping, a transferred twill impression, and touches of hand-applied dark brow...