EditorialAlphabetic human forms. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Three portrait heads.Ten diagrammatic drawings of human forms stylized into letters. The head between knees, elbows at right angles, and legs contorted into 'Y',...
EditorialPortrait illustration of woman with contorted face. A person in ceremonial or traditional dress. A native islander or inhabitant of a country reached on the voyage of explorer Captain Cook.
EditorialWatch fob, Leather, gold, stone, The gold-and-matrix pendant is in the form of a modelled demon, contorted against engraved skeletons; in box of Marcus and Co., New York., New York, New York, USA, 188090, jewelry, Decorative Arts, Watch fob.
EditorialFragment of a terracotta mask, a deeply contorted face, probably of a male mask. Perhaps a fragment of an eye or mouth. Van Boekel type II ?, terracotta, mask, fragment, earthenware, 5,1 x 5,7 x 1,3 cm, roman 1-300, The Netherlands, Gelderland, Berg en...
EditorialEntertainers from the Bombay Theatre of Varieties at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London. Theatrical entertainers gathered on the stage. The figures include a strongman holding a heavy stone above his head, a yogi in a particularly contorted postur...
EditorialPortion of a Pilaster with an Acrobat, ca. 1150?70, Made in Lyonnais, France, French, Limestone, Overall: 12 3/4 x 9 in. (32.4 x 22.9 cm), Sculpture-Architectural, Acrobats appear often in medieval art, offering amusing reminders of the world beyond ch...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, 2nd quarter of the 5th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm), Vases, Winged youth and bird. The identity of the winged figure and of the scene as a whole is unclear. The fig...
EditorialHonor? Daumier: The Ribalds (Les Ribaudes), Honor? Daumier, 1848?1849, Oil on canvas, Daumier was one of the greatest caricaturists of the nineteenth century. He created thousands of keenly observed images of the social types he encountered in Paris. T...
EditorialEntertainers from the Bombay Theatre of Varieties at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London. Theatrical entertainers gathered on the stage. The figures include a strongman holding a heavy stone above his head, a yogi in a particularly contorted postur...
EditorialEntertainers from the Bombay Theatre of Varieties at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London. Theatrical entertainers gathered on the stage. The figures include a strongman holding a heavy stone above his head, a yogi in a particularly contorted postur...
EditorialAlphabetic human forms. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Three portrait heads.Ten diagrammatic drawings of human forms stylized into letters. The head between knees, elbows at right angles, and legs contorted into 'Y',...
EditorialPortrait illustration of woman with contorted face. A person in ceremonial or traditional dress. A native islander or inhabitant of a country reached on the voyage of explorer Captain Cook.
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, 2nd quarter of the 5th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm), Vases, Winged youth and bird. The identity of the winged figure and of the scene as a whole is unclear. The fig...
EditorialPortion of a Pilaster with an Acrobat, ca. 1150?70, Made in Lyonnais, France, French, Limestone, Overall: 12 3/4 x 9 in. (32.4 x 22.9 cm), Sculpture-Architectural, Acrobats appear often in medieval art, offering amusing reminders of the world beyond ch...
EditorialGonothyraea loveni polyp (Contorted sertularia, Sertularia contorta). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1810.