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Eadweard Muybridge is a major forerunner of modern photography. He demonstrated early on that a camera ‘sees’ more, and better, than the human eye. He began making studies of motion in 1872 to settle the question whether all four legs of a horse are off t…

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Twee mannen ontmoeten elkaar op een trap. De linker heeft een hoed vast.

Oljemålning på duk, föreställande en ung afrikansk man med apor och papegojor. Förgylld profilerad ram av trä. /Anna Arfvidsson Womack 2022; Afrikan, fåglar, papegoja; Enligt Bertil Rapp, Djur och stilleben i karolinskt måleri (1951), är denna målning en …

A painting of two navy sailor caricatures dancing on ship’s deck. Oil painting on paperboard by ”Nåhls”. Dimensions: 55.6 x 44 cm.

A painting of two shipwrecked navy sailor caricatures standing on a floating wooden box. Oil painting on paperboard by ”Nåhls”. Dimensions: 55.5 x 43.6 cm.

Lettering: La girouette dit le grand docteur. Ordonnances. 1845. loc

Lettering: You smell of pomtatum & lavender-water. Your hair & moustache with bear's-grease do shine. But my handsome young swell just mind what you're arter For I wont have a barber for my Valentine.

Lettering: Professional candour. LThackeray. Assouan.

Submitted: 2 picture postcard, written on the reverse. Recto: mobilization, cartoon.

Postcard from Patrick Rossiter to his son Patrick Rossiter in Leixlip, Co. Kildare; Front

Postcards

Bildunterschrift: Lord Rhondda. "My next illusion, ladies and gentlemen, is the one-and-ninepenny rabbit. I now drop that sum into the hat, and in its place a rabbit will -"

Lettering: Scot free, a fore-cast of the coming election ... ; Tom Merry del.; A political cartoon showing William Gladstone as a jockey, falling from his horse "Scot Free"

Both my parents were born in India. They, along with some of their family members, moved to Pakistan after its creation in 1947 during Partition. In 1973, my father moved to Rome, Italy, from Pakistan because he wanted to start a new life in a new place a…

Vytautas Kasiulis is one of the few Lithuanian artists to earn international recognition. In 1937 to 1941 he studied and later taught at the Kaunas School of Arts. In 1944 he left for Austria and Germany to refine his skills. He taught at the Freiburg Sch…

Franciszek Smuglewicz is one of the most famous Lithuanian Classicism painters, the first professor and the head of the Drawing and Painting Department established in late 18th century in Vilnius University. His artworks and educational activities made si…

Lettering: A royal visit to Drury Lane Theater. Drawn by Weld Taylor from a sketch taken from the prompters box, after the performance of the Christmas pantomime Thursday Jan. 24th 1839

Lettering: Mr Grimaldi & Mr Norman in the Epping hunt from the popular pantomime of the Red Dwarf.

Lettering: Grimaldi & the nondescript in the Red Dwarf. The clown kills the pantaloon and afterwards dresses him in the skin of a lion the head of an ass eagles wings cats feet & a fishes tail. W. Heath del.

Bildunterschrift: Miss Lily (to Three unruly Brothers). "Now, you boys, if you behave like that, I'll turn you all out of the room!" Three unruly Brothers. "Ha! Ha! You can't! For Mamma sent us here to play forfeits - you know she d…

Scène uit de Commedia dell'Arte: een man wiegt een kind in een wieg, Pierrot doet de was. Ontwerp voor een prent.

Lettering: [Shigenobu giga] Bears publisher's mark and censor's seal.

technique: oil on canvas

More than just an artwork, the composition "Pirates" is a painting game played between a father and his daughter, created together. The work exudes childlike innocence and directness while conveying a sense that the young child is painting witho…

Booklet advertising Goodall's Dental Institute's services. Extractions, scaling, fillings and false teeth are advertised. The front has a picture of a glamorous, smiling young woman with perfect teeth which is repeated on the back with several tee…

Eyes shining and eyebrows raised, a man is baring his crooked teeth in a hearty laugh. This is not a portrait, but a character study or ‘tronie’ of a laughing man. Rembrandt painted it while he was living in Leiden and still had a very smooth style. So it…

KU Leuven. Glass slides art history. Université de Louvain, between 1839 and 1939. Photographer unknown. Added information on slide. Style: Realism. Creation/Building: c. 1830-1879. Current location: Die Schweiz (?). EuroPhot. Art History. 19th century. P…

Bildunterschrift: Il parait décidément que mon gaillard est un grand scélérat... tant mieux... si je parviens à le faire acquitter, quel honneur pour moi!...

Bildunterschrift: Encore perdu en Cour Royale... et il se lamente comme s'il ne lui restait pas encore la Cour de Cassation!...

This cheerfully laughing boy with sparkly eyes and dishevelled hair is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a study of a laughing child. Laughing figures are unusual, as laughter is one of the most difficult expressions to capture. The virtuoso Hals painted t…

The water and sand at the seashore, executed with long blue, mauve and turquoise green brush strokes, conform an abstract background for the stylized figures of Clotilde and Maria, wife and daughter of the painter, Joaquín Sorolla. The waiving dresses and…

Greek political cartoon

A clipping from the newspaper "I Kathimerini", dated October 30, 1983.

A little boy with a laugh. Alf. Gustafsson