EditorialThe artist Alison Saar with her sculpture of Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black woman to have a show produced on Broadway, in Los Angeles, May 16, 2022. (Nolwen Cifuentes/The New York Times)
EditorialPortrait of a German maiden in late 16th century garb. She wears a lace ruff, a painted glass brooch with her own likeness, and holds a prayer book bound in painted parchment. From a painting by a Lower Franconian artist. Chromolithograph from Hefner-A...
Editorial‘Paramahamsa’, a naked ascetic, usually a Saiva. (Inscription: ‘Likeness of Lomi (?) Saddah, a citizen of Mathura who, sitting beside the pool of Raja Phatte Mal, has not spoken for fifteen years. Kaum (i.e. caste) Paramahamsa’). Tashrih al-aqv...
EditorialPoplar hawk-moth, Laothoe populi, small magpie likeness moth, Margaritia verticalis, grey scalloped bar moth, Dyscia fagaria, shaded broad bar, Scotopteryx chenopodiata. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; ...
EditorialFrench caricature - "Un cochon engraisse pendant 20 ans pour le Roi de Prusse" A pig with a regal likeness at the rear. Collection de Caricatures et de charges pour servir a? l’histoire de la guerre et de la Re?volution de 1870-1871. Paris, 1870-18...
EditorialA supporter of Britney Spears carries a backpack emblazoned with her likeness at a rally in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Maggie Shannon/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Winthrop. Date/Period: Ca. 1800, after an original likeness probably painted in England before 1630. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 746 mm (29.37 in); Width: 622 mm (24.48 in).
EditorialArtist: John Trumbull, American, 17561843, Subject: George Washington, American, 17321799, LL.D. 1822, General George Washington at?Trenton, Oil on canvas, 92 1/2 ? 63 in. (235 ? 160?cm), In 1792 the city of Charleston, South Carolina, commissioned fro...
EditorialA Family Likeness, George Moutard Woodward, ca. 17601809, British, undated, Watercolor and gouache with pen, brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly texured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (32.4 x 24.1 cm), caricature, dog (animal), ...
EditorialThe Striking Likeness or Harlequin Turn'd Painter, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, after Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, 16921768, Italian, 1770s to 1790s, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 18 1/2 ? 12 inche...
EditorialGeorg Christian Waechter, Voltaire (1694-1778), 1770, bronze, 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm.), After visiting Voltaire at his estate in Ferney, Georg Waechter produced the first version of this famous medal in 1769, which included the controversial inscription 'i...
EditorialJoshua Johnson, Portrait of a Man (Abner Coker), ca. 1805-1810, oil on canvas, 27 7/8 in. x 22 in. (70.8 cm x 55.88 cm), Joshua Johnson (occasionally spelled Johnston) is one of the earliest identifiable African American artists. This portrait is one o...
EditorialA likeness of artist Roméo Mivekannin’s own face from “Behanzin, His Three Wives Standing, His Three Daughters,” in Paris Jan. 22, 2021. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
EditorialA likeness of artist Roméo Mivekannin’s own face from “Behanzin, His Three Wives Standing, His Three Daughters,” in Paris Jan. 22, 2021. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
EditorialIskandar on the island near the ‘Lion’s Mouth’ whirlpool beating the wolfskin drum of the bronze talisman in order to still the waters. (One of the figures in the boat is shown in the likeness of Husain Baiqara). Khamsa. ('Five Poems'), by Nizami...
Editorial(‘Iskandarnama’). Iskandar (in the likeness of Sultan Husain Baiqara) with the seven sages. (Inscription: Year AH900=1494-5). Khamsa. ('Five Poems'), by Nizami. Herat, 1494-1495. Opaque watercolour. Source: Or.6810, f.214.
EditorialIskandar (in the likeness of Husayn Bayqara) visiting the wise man in a cave. Khamsa. ('Five Poems'), by Nizami. Herat, 1494-1495. Opaque watercolour. Source: Or. 6810, f.273. Language: Persian.
EditorialPortrait of a German maiden in late 16th century garb. She wears a lace ruff, a painted glass brooch with her own likeness, and holds a prayer book bound in painted parchment. From a painting by a Lower Franconian artist. Chromolithograph from Hefner-A...
EditorialJan Lutma, goldsmith, 1656, Etching, drypoint, and burin; second state of three, sheet: 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (20 x 15 cm), Prints, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606?1669 Amsterdam), The silversmith Johannes Lutma was a well-kown figure in...