Editorial"Oh blast! I don't seem to be able to tie a knot!" plate 4 from Coquetterie. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1839. Dimensions: 247 ? 186 mm (image); 335 ? 249 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: France.
EditorialStudies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in a Three-Quarter View and for His Hands (recto); Studies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in Profile (verso).
EditorialSketches of Figures of the Virgin Kneeling, Saint Peter Standing, Seated Allegorical Figures of Faith and Charity, and Child Standing on a Corbel (?) (recto); Sketches of Figures of Saint Sebastian Standing and the Virgin and Child with Angels (verso).
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.
EditorialStanding Figure of Saint Stephen and the Head of Another Figure Within the Framing Outlines of a Rectangle, Crude Sketch of the Head of Another Figure, Undecipherable Sketch of a Polygonal or Circular Object with Small Projections.
EditorialThe Reclining Headless Body of Holofernes; Study of Female Semi-Nude Figure (on a small separate, unrelated sheet of blue paper, pasted onto the lower left of the large sheet) .
EditorialStudies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in a Three-Quarter View and for His Hands (recto); Studies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in Profile (verso).
EditorialCanopic Jar of Manuwai, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Limestone, blue paste, Overall height 36.2 cm (4 1/4 in), At some time du...
EditorialMagna Carta is frequently mentioned in children’s history books where traditionally it has been taught as one of the foundations of British liberty. Such books include Our Island Story, first published in 1905, in which ‘the Story of the Great Char...
EditorialStele. 1789. Stele with a standing ithyphallic image, probably originally a Harihara, since Garuda and Nandi are both in attendance below. 17-20 December 1789. Pencil and wash British school. Note: The Daniells seem to have seen this image near the rem...
EditorialMagna Carta is frequently mentioned in children’s history books where traditionally it has been taught as one of the foundations of British liberty. Such books include Our Island Story, first published in 1905, in which ‘the Story of the Great Char...
EditorialCopper ingot, Late Bronze Age, ca. 1450?1050 B.C., Cypriot, Copper, width 14 3/8in. (36.5cm), Bronzes, Cyprus is thought to have been the main producer of copper in the Late Bronze Age, although very few ingots, apart from miniature votive ingots, have...
EditorialBronze balsamarium (cosmetics container), Late Classical or Hellenistic, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, H.: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm), Bronzes, Small portable bronze containers in the shape of female heads were very popular items during...
EditorialRed-figured hydria, Greek, c420-c400 BC. The figures on this hydria are divided into two zones. The upper zone illustrates the abduction of the daughters of Leukippos by the Dioskouroi, Kastor and Polydeukes (Castor and Pollux). Aphrodite, goddess of l...
EditorialPortrait de l'empereur Napoléon III (1808-1873) - Portrait of Emperor Napoleon III (1808-1873). Around 1855. Canvas, 245 x 158cm. One of the many copies of official use (various prefectures, embassies, institutions, etc.) of the portrait of ...
EditorialSketches of Figures of the Virgin Kneeling, Saint Peter Standing, Seated Allegorical Figures of Faith and Charity, and Child Standing on a Corbel (?) (recto); Sketches of Figures of Saint Sebastian Standing and the Virgin and Child with Angels (verso).
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.