EditorialPleated fan, Parchment leaf painted in gouache, carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks overlaid with gold and silver foil, rivet set with a faceted stone, Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted in gouache. Obverse: a classical Roman scene set in the Ro...
EditorialPeacocks and Amorini, Walter Crane, (English, 18451915), Jeffrey & Company, 18361930 London, England, Block-printed paper, embossed and bronze gilded, On beige ground facing peacocks with spread tails alternating with sickle-bearing genii on chariots. ...
EditorialPleated fan, Parchment leaf painted in gouache, carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks overlaid with gold and silver foil, rivet set with a faceted stone, Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted in gouache. Obverse: a classical Roman scene set in the Ro...
EditorialDesign for Metal Frame, Johann Alois Seethaler, 1796 1835, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, Rosette and palm-leaf motifs in the center of each side. The cresting is composed of facing swans that terminate in vegetal arabesques, flanking an urn of gra...
EditorialPleated fan and case, Painted parchment leaf, carved, pierced, painted and gilt ivory sticks, Pleated fan with a painted parchment leaf with three cartouches: the center shows an interior with a man and two women playing music and dancing; the two side...
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialFlint gun turned into rifle, in empire style. The front part of the lock is very long, the rooster is engraved with a cornucopia, the final plate with a swan and a signature. The Damascus loop is browned and fills out at both the front and back, marked...
EditorialChariot Drawn by Lions with Amorini (recto) Partial Architectural Study (verso) , first half 1500s. Italy, 16th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 9 x 42.4 cm (3 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.).
EditorialChariot Drawn by Lions with Amorini, first half 1500s. Italy, 16th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 9 x 42.4 cm (3 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.).
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialRocaille Fountain with Venus, Amorini, and Swans. Dated: c. 1735. Dimensions: overall: 54.8 x 37.8 cm (21 9/16 x 14 7/8 in.). Medium: red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper.
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.