EditorialMadonna and Child, ca. 1470, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall 27 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (70.5 x 46 cm); painted surface 24 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (61.6 x 37.5 cm), Paintings, Benvenuto di Giovanni (Italian, Siena 1436?after 1518 Siena), This resplendent and w...
EditorialDesign for Four Festoons, Pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash, graphite framing lines on cream laid paper, Horizontal rectangle showing design for four festoons. At top, a shield with crossed swords; at center left, a fasces and shield; at center ri...
EditorialH.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal. The General stands gazing towards the left. He wears a long, shaped coat of green and gold, and brocaded trousers of a reddish colour. His right hand i...
EditorialMadonna and Child, ca. 1470, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall 27 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (70.5 x 46 cm); painted surface 24 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (61.6 x 37.5 cm), Paintings, Benvenuto di Giovanni (Italian, Siena 1436?after 1518 Siena), This resplendent and w...
EditorialH.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal. The General stands gazing towards the left. He wears a long, shaped coat of green and gold, and brocaded trousers of a reddish colour. His right hand i...
EditorialThe gods & Siva. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. The Gods led by Brahma request Siva to beget a son. Siva's seed is depicted as a golden glowing discus resplendent as fire or the sun hidden among the reeds in the right background of the illustrati...
EditorialH.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal. The General stands gazing towards the left. He wears a long, shaped coat of green and gold, and brocaded trousers of a reddish colour. His right hand i...
EditorialMadonna and Child, ca. 1470, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall 27 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (70.5 x 46 cm); painted surface 24 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (61.6 x 37.5 cm), Paintings, Benvenuto di Giovanni (Italian, Siena 1436?after 1518 Siena), This resplendent and w...
EditorialResplendent quetzal, Pharomachrus mocinno. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialResplendent quetzal, Pharomachrus mocinno (Pavonian trogon, Spix var.? Trogon pavoninus). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H. Kearsley from a specimen in the British Museum from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, L...