EditorialFragments, Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave, Fragments of red on a white ground in a design of flowers and foliage; massive stone castle; girl with a watering can; and small dock jutting into a stream., Central Europe, ca. 1840, printed...
EditorialHalf Dome, Yosemite, Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 18371926, Brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on blue-gray wove paper, Vertical vista features the granite peak of Half Dome, Yosemite, looming between boulders in the foreground and sn...
EditorialWest Shore of Lake Brienz, Switzerland, Daniel Huntington, American, 18161906, Graphite on paper, Still lake surrounded by mountains with a sailboat on it, at center. At right, a boathouse and rocks jutting into the water., June 13, 1844, landscapes, D...
EditorialCliff and Trees, Vicksburg, Miss., James Henry Moser, Canadian, 18541913, Charcoal on brown paper, Part of a cliff or dune jutting out from the right, with a steep slope of bare earth. Trees and other vegetation on the top., Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA...
EditorialRock Ledge at Stowe, Daniel Huntington, American, 18161906, Graphite on cream paper, Ledge jutting from left. Valley and mountains in distance, right., USA, September 1864, landscapes, Drawing, Drawing.
EditorialUrn of earthenware with little jutting belly, faintly curved edge. The top of the rim decorated with finger art. Old glues and additions, gaps in the wall, surface damage, the edge is damaged., Urn, pottery, h: 20 cm, diam: 19.5 cm, prehistory -800.
EditorialGold earring with a glass pendant in the shape of an African?s head, Hellenistic, late 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Gold, glass; cast in a two-part mold, Other (Pendant): 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1.1 x 1.3 cm), Pendant: Deep c...
EditorialWatchtowers not connected to the Great Wall of China lie north of the wall, jutting out into the lands of the Nomads, against whom the Wall was erected by China's first Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi around 210 BCE. See 05-01-02 / 1-12.
EditorialGold earring with a glass pendant in the shape of an African?s head, Hellenistic, late 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Gold, glass; cast in a two-part mold, Other (Pendant): 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1.1 x 1.3 cm), Pendant: Deep c...
EditorialDetail of a sea elephant with an impressive array of spikes jutting from its back. L'lsole piu? famose del Mondo, descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione, Arretino, e intagliate da Girolamo Porro, Padovano. 1576. Source: G.7223, page 161.
EditorialHead of a statue of an older man, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4?5, ca. 2550?2460 B.C., From Egypt, Limestone, paint, 4 x 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 in. (10.2 x 10.7 x 8.5 cm), The small head was probably part of a standing statue with a back pillar. Narrow eyes, the rema...
EditorialGold earring with a glass pendant in the shape of an African?s head, Hellenistic, late 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Gold, glass; cast in a two-part mold, Other (Pendant): 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1.1 x 1.3 cm), Pendant: Deep c...
EditorialMan with Prayer Beads, mid-17th century, Attributed to Iran, Isfahan, Ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Codices, Painting by Muhammad `Ali, In the mid-seventeenth century, followers of the famous Riza-yi...
EditorialLimestone head of a bearded male wearing a conical helmet, Archaic, middle or third quarter of the 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 16 x 8 1/4 x 8 in. (40.6 x 21 x 20.3 cm), Stone Sculpture, The rounded beard is smooth, with the central p...
EditorialLimestone statue of a lion, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, H. 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (14 x 17.1 x 29.8 cm), Stone Sculpture, The mane, jutting above the forehead, consists of irregular, flamelike tufts.
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...