EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Marilyn Monroe's Hamptons hideaway where she stayed with husband Arthur Miller on the market for $12m ? and it even has a working windmill
EditorialCourtesans playing shamisen to entertain a customer drinking sake in the pleasure quarters. Kamuro maids serve sake. Woodblock print by Moronobu Hishikawa (1618-1694) from Fuzoku Emakimono, Picture Scroll of the Water Trade, Tokyo, reprint circa 1880.
EditorialA Nautch at Hindu Rao's House. Dancing girls entertain. Severl European men watch. One smokes a hookah. Hindu Rao was a famous inhabitant of Delhi. The figure of the Indian host resembles a portrait of Hindu Rao. By a Delhi artist, c.1840. Water-colour...
EditorialRaja of Astor and children. 18-20 Jul 1885 'On July 18th the party reached Astor (7,700), and halted 19th and 20th. Here the Ra of Astor was introduced, who was afterwards to be of service. A handsome old man of 70, the Ra, by name Bahadur Khan, was v...
EditorialA Nautch at Hindu Rao's House. Dancing girls entertain. Severl European men watch. One smokes a hookah. Hindu Rao was a famous inhabitant of Delhi. The figure of the Indian host resembles a portrait of Hindu Rao. By a Delhi artist, c.1840. Water-colour...
EditorialCavalry sports helmet, Roman Britain, late 1st or early 2nd century. Decorated with a scene of a skirmish between infantry and cavalry. Cavalry sports (hippika gymnasia) were displays of horsemanship and weapons drill and served both as training sessio...
EditorialA Musical Party, 1659, Oil on canvas, 24 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (62.2 x 54.3 cm), Paintings, Gabri?l Metsu (Dutch, Leiden 1629?1667 Amsterdam), Metsu began his career as a Leiden fijnschilder (fine-painter) in the manner of Gerrit Dou. By 1657 he had moved t...
EditorialCourtesans playing shamisen to entertain a customer drinking sake in the pleasure quarters. Kamuro maids serve sake. Woodblock print by Moronobu Hishikawa (1618-1694) from Fuzoku Emakimono, Picture Scroll of the Water Trade, Tokyo, reprint circa 1880.
EditorialSocial visit to a Paris salon, circa 1800. A group of dandies attempt to entertain three seated belles in a drawing room. Drawn by P-L Debucourt, woodcut by Huyot from Paul Lacroix's "Directoire, Consulat et Empire," Paris, 1884.
EditorialTHE COMMEMORATION AT EDINBURGH OF THE TERCENTENARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY: 1. In the United Presbyterian Hall: Conferring the Honorary Degrees in Divinity and Law. 2. Students' Torchlight Procession in Waterloo Place. 3. Dramatic Entertain...
EditorialJohn of Gaunt dining with the King of Portugal. The diners, including bishops, sit at a banqueting table while servants bring food and musicians entertain. Roy.14.E.IV.fol.244 v.
EditorialSmoking Charras (hemp), 1870. Colourful scene of Indians smoking charras, a preparation of hemp imported into India from East Turkestan. They use Hookas (waterpipes) and chillum pipes. Musicians entertain them with sitar and tabla. From volume 49 of "M...
EditorialCavalry sports helmet, Roman Britain, late 1st or early 2nd century. Decorated with a scene of a skirmish between infantry and cavalry. Cavalry sports (hippika gymnasia) were displays of horsemanship and weapons drill and served both as training sessio...
EditorialFragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nabamun, from Thebes, 18th dynasty, around 1350 BCE. Musicians and dancers entertain the guests at a banquet. The scene hints subtly at rebirth and new life. Detail of / 51 EA,37984.