EditorialNuns practice kung fu early in the morning at Druk Amitabha Nunnery, on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 3, 2023. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialThe soul of Lucy de Vere being carried to heaven by angels; below, her funeral. Mortuary roll of Lucy, foundress and first prioress of the Benedictine nunnery of Castle Hedingham. England, S. E. (Essex?); c. 1225 - c. 1230. Source: Egerton 2849, Part I...
EditorialFigures, cattle and sheep in the foreground; tents to the right-hand side; Quebec and the Orphan's Nursery in the middle ground; ships on the St Lawrence River in the distance. A View of the Orphan's or Urseline Nunnery taken from the Ramparts. [London...
EditorialAt Nunnery in Cumberland, August 20, 1786, Gray wash over graphite with pen and sepia ink, sheet: 15 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (40.3 x 37.4 cm), Drawings, Joseph Farington (British, Lancashire 1747?1821 Lancashire), Farington was a leading landscape draftsman w...
Editorial'Unparalled gift! A cold watch for sixpence!!! Buried alive. The story of a rich heiress forced against her will into a nunnery, and 'consigned to a living death in a subterranean dungeon'. One of a series of stories, 'the mysteries of a London convent...
EditorialFigures, cattle and sheep in the foreground; tents to the right-hand side; Quebec and the Orphan's Nursery in the middle ground; ships on the St Lawrence River in the distance. A View of the Orphan's or Urseline Nunnery taken from the Ramparts. [London...
EditorialSection of the Wall of a Nunnery Chapel with the Choir, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, Elevation of a wall with a gallery above. At center, a door. Above this, a shell ornament and the gallery bows out in a convex curve., Italy, 18th centu...