EditorialDesk Desk Desk, desk on S-shaped legs, decorated with marquetry in multiple materials. The scalloped front and sides of the chassis bear figurative marquetry panels, as well as the sides of the chassis and the fields of the central attachment. The writ...
EditorialSymptoms: of None of Your Stuff, of a Declaration, of a Meltonian, of Is that a Writ I See Before Me, of a Love Feast, of a Buck, Henry Thomas Alken, 17851851, British, between 1818 and 1822, Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, blued w...
EditorialDesign for a Frieze with the Allegory of Literature, Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818, Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper, A putto wearing a helmet and shouldering a lance speaks to another one who, crowned with a wreath, pauses in writ...
EditorialSymptoms: of None of Your Stuff, of a Declaration, of a Meltonian, of Is that a Writ I See Before Me, of a Love Feast, of a Buck, Henry Thomas Alken, 17851851, British, between 1818 and 1822, Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, blued w...
EditorialChatterton (The Death of Chatterton), 1856 Artist: Henry Wallis Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was an unsuccessful poet whose suicide became a symbol of blighted artistic genius. Wallis used his friend George Meredith (1828-1909), also a struggling writ...
EditorialDesk Desk Desk, desk on S-shaped legs, decorated with marquetry in multiple materials. The scalloped front and sides of the chassis bear figurative marquetry panels, as well as the sides of the chassis and the fields of the central attachment. The writ...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with standing ears of corn or 'st?ende ax', Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Swedish lace. The strip is attached to pins on a light blue cardboard with four other strips. At the top of the cardboard is' Wadstena. Sweden. 'writ...
EditorialDesk Desk Desk, desk on S-shaped legs, decorated with marquetry in multiple materials. The scalloped front and sides of the chassis bear figurative marquetry panels, as well as the sides of the chassis and the fields of the central attachment. The writ...
EditorialManuscript illustration of battle/tournament scene, with row of spectators in raised gallery, outside a castle. Le, Roman du Roi Meliadus de Leonnoys. Italy, 1352-1362. Le, Roman du Roi Meliadus de Leonnoys, par Helie de Borron. Writ- ten for Louis II....
EditorialThe jurors who refused to convict William Penn in 1670 were fined and imprisoned for contempt of court because they returned a verdict with which the judge disagreed. One juror, Edward Bushell, refused to pay the fine and instead sued for a writ of hab...
Editorial"Here'sh a copy of a writ, and here'sh te original.", IMAGE ACCOMPANYING "THE FEAR OF THE WORLD; OR, LIVING FOR APPEARANCES" BY THE BROTHERS MAYHEW.
EditorialSummer Retreat in the Eastern Grove, ? ??? ????? ?, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), datable to before 1515, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, Image (painting): 12 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. (31.8 x 108 cm), Paintings, Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470?1559), This poem, writ...
Editorial"Here'sh a copy of a writ, and here'sh te original.", IMAGE ACCOMPANYING "THE FEAR OF THE WORLD; OR, LIVING FOR APPEARANCES" BY THE BROTHERS MAYHEW.