Editorial? ??? ???? ??, Squirrel and Grape, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1868, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper, 6 15/16 x 20 1/16 in. (17.6 x 51 cm), Paintings, Liu Deliu (Chinese, 1806?1875), Liu Deliu's fan painted ...
EditorialIchikawa Monosuke II, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1790, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (31.4 x 14 cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shun'ei (Japanese, 1762?1819), Utamaro's fundamental curiosity about women was not l...
EditorialPortrait of a Man, 1755?65, Red and black chalk on off-white laid paper, verso worked in black chalk (in area corresponding to the sitter's jacket on the recto), Sheet: 9 1/2 ? 7 3/8 in. (24.1 ? 18.7 cm), Drawings, Jean ?tienne Liotard (Swiss, Geneva 1...
Editorial????????, Foreign Merchants in Japanese Trade Port, Edo period (1615?1868), early 19th century, Japan, Six-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper, Image: 27 5/8 x 103 7/8 in. (70.2 x 263.8 cm), Screens, Things foreign enjoyed great popularity in ...
EditorialOriental man looks out of curiosity in a closet at a host chalice, from which as punishment a flame bursts out, Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, Frantz Martin Hertzen, 1710.
EditorialCaricature curiosity, Caricature of a porcine clergyman and a skinny volunteer officer examining caricatures of themselves in what is probably William Holland's printing shop window. Parson Puzzletest is furious, but his companion, Capt. Ruiz, reacts w...
EditorialA Curiosity in Ireland, Lady seated by the fire., London, 1814, a woman sitting on settee by fireplace. She wears a small hat trimmed with a feather, a short braided hussar jacket, a limp skirt draping her knees, with a long boa and large muff of white...
EditorialThree graces in trousers. Three girls in turbans, dresses with frills that reach the mid-calf length and frilled pantalons or trousers. "There is something strange about this costume. The small number of women who appeared in trousers on the boulevards...
EditorialThe problem with Capote bonnets: two women's deep-brimmed bonnets collide as they greet each other, while fashionable men watch. The bonnets with long sides were obviously invented by pretty coquettes who wanted to prick the curiosity of men and keep t...
EditorialA Curiosity in Ireland, Lady seated by the fire., London, 1814, a woman sitting on settee by fireplace. She wears a small hat trimmed with a feather, a short braided hussar jacket, a limp skirt draping her knees, with a long boa and large muff of white...
EditorialCaricature curiosity, Caricature of a porcine clergyman and a skinny volunteer officer examining caricatures of themselves in what is probably William Holland's printing shop window. Parson Puzzletest is furious, but his companion, Capt. Ruiz, reacts w...
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...
EditorialThe " Hairy Man", Petrus Gonzalvus, born 1556 on Teneriffa. Considered a unique curiosity who lived at various European courts. He married and had two equally hairy children. Their portraits are a typical item of Archduke Ferdinand's collecti...
Editorial" Die grosse Neugierde" -the " Great curiosity", a favourite vantage point for Prussian royalty in the park of Glienicke palace. Detail of the tower's lantern.
EditorialSchloss Glienicke, " Grosse Neugierde", the " Great Curiosity". From this lookout, the royal family could watch the bridge across the Havel river and observe who was travelling to town. The circular pavilion is topped by a copy of t...