EditorialSegawa Tomisaburo II as Yadorigi in the Play 'Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga', Edo period (1615?1868), 1794, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper, H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm); W. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), Prints, Toshusai Sharaku (Japanes...
EditorialRelief showing Khety?s hand, with a graffito of Ramesside date, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11, ca. 2051?2000 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Khety (TT 311,), Corridor, 1922?23, Limestone, paint, H. 21 x W. 14 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/...
EditorialFireback, 1703, Possibly made in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, American, Cast iron, 27 1/4 x 29 in. (69.2 x 73.7 cm), Metal, Cast iron firebacks served the dual purpose of reflecting the heat of a fire back into a room and protecting vulnerable...
EditorialThe rail candidate; Currier & Ives.; Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist; New York : Currier & Ives, c1860.; 1 print on wove paper : lithograph : (image) 27 x 36 cm.; The antislavery plank was a controversial feature of the 1860 Republican platform. Here...
EditorialNaked natives on a dual-hull boat of New Caledonia. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (178...
EditorialLimestone pillar depicting scenes from the life of Buddha, from the railing around the Great Stupa, 3rd CE. The veduka, or fence, fulfills the dual role of demarcating the sacred space of the stupa and providing a pathway between the fence and the stup...