The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
Artist
Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy
Physical Description
This carved bone sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary raising her right hand in a gesture of grief while her head is bent in mourning. A similar female figure, holding her hands clasped before her, appears in profile behind the Virgin, and another female figure stands to the left. Behind the mourning women the pointed helmets worn by two soldiers may be discerned.
'Cymbidium Dotterel var. Oyamazaki,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist
Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description
Slightly above center is an arch of four orange and red blooms. Behind the blossoms are leaves which also make a slight curve from lower center to upper right. The background is a light yellow/orange which gradients to white in the lower third.
'Cypripedium Goliath,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist
Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description
Yellow and white flower on a grey background. The bloom is in the upper right hand with a bud situated behind it. The base of the stem and the leaves are located on the bottom portion of the image.
'Dendrobium Victoria Reginae,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist
Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description
In the center are several small purple and white orchids. To the left of them is a stem covered with leaves. Also visible near the bottom of the image are the roots of the plant.
"What's new in the world" - Notat and Koyap listening to transistor radio, Chukotka
Artist
Dmitri Baltermants
Physical Description
A black and white imafe of two women from the Chukot region of northeast Russia listen to a radio. They are dressed in patterned scarves around their heads and thick fur-trimmed coats to keep warm in te Siberian cold.
A collection of abstract landscape and figure with a photographic image. The figure, Christlike in its pose, runs up roughly the middle of the painting, looking also like a road or a path across the bleak landscape. In the upper left is a photographic image of some military trucks and a scaffold tower. Along the left half of the landscape, names of towns are written in the paint.
Pen and ink drawing of nude woman, presumably dead or in the act of dying, stretched between floor and chair, with a man bending over her head and torso. In interior domestic space.
Abstract portrait of an actress, formed by abstract pools of watercolor with only slight detailing laid in after to suggest a bowed head and curved neck.
Gelatin silver print. A man in uniform and heavy coat looks to his right as he stands posed next to a broken sign and broken mannequins in the rubble-filled street of Berlin.
This small watercolor shows the view of an arch by a city waterfront. A wall closes off the left side of the street leading up to the arch, and creates a powerful sense of recession into space leading from the foreground to the monument in the middle distance. Scattered figures inhabit the street. Beyond the arch may be glimpsed the waters of a bay and a hill rising above the far shore.
Artist Life Dates
(1783 - 1852)
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1824-1852
Accession Number
2009/1.511.4
Medium and Support
watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper
An angel, holding a scepter in his left hand and making a gesture of speech with his right, interrupts the Virgin at her reading. She kneels on the floor and rests her left hand on an open book placed atop a lectern. A vase with a flowering lily sits on the floor between the angel and the Virgin and a small white dove encircled by a halo hovers between them. The scene unfolds within an elaborate and richly decorated interior that includes a chair and canopied bed in the background.
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
This watercolor depicts a busy harbor scene in tones of brown with a bit of blue in the sky area and greenish blue for the water. One building on the shore is shown in bright red.
Architectural ceiling boss with four faces, probably from the Church of St. Andrew at Cullompton
Artist
Artist Unknown, England
Physical Description
This ceiling boss features four faces with traces of paint that are arranged in a radial pattern with the crowns of their heads converging on a single, central point. Two of the faces are female, identifiable by the wimples worn on their heads, while the other two, wearing small pointed caps and sporting beards, are male. The symmetrical regularity of the piece is counterbalanced by subtle asymmetries introduced by differences in detail and the sequence of facial types.
Three figures stand in a wooded clearing in the foreground of this small watercolor. A view opens out in the middle ground over a bay with a city descending from the adjacent hills to the water. A volcano smolders in the distance on the opposite side of the bay, a thick plume of smoke rising from its peak.
Artist Life Dates
(1783 - 1852)
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1824-1852
Accession Number
2009/1.511.2
Medium and Support
watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper
This lithograph is printed in black ink on a rose-colored chine collé paper. It depicts a wide Parisian boulevard as though seen from above at a distance. Large trees and buildings line either side of the street. Vehicles and pedestrians, many of whom appear to hold umbrellas, people the scene.
Brassocattleya Empress of Russia var. Oyamazaki, from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist
Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description
Central is a large white blossom with yellow accent. Behind this bloom is another "sketched" blossom that is uncolored. This indicates that this was one of the unfinished images from the collection. Surrounding the lower halves of the blossoms are several green leaves.
This painting, done in thick brushstrokes, shows a group of women gathered on the grass in a wooded area. There are six figures, four seated and two standing, and they fill the foreground of the composition. They are grouped in a semi-circle, however, there is no communication or eye contact between the figures. The women are wearing traditional Breton costumes with brightly colored aprons, caps and sashes. They have bright white collars and caps with purple, burgundy and green ribbons.
Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, with left hand in abhaya mudra
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
Small gilt bronze seated Buddha in style of China’s cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty. It has a full figure, artfully draped robes, and a plump, rounded face with arched eyebrows. Hand is raised in abhaya mudra.
Painting of landscape scene with blue sky and green field. Mountains and three houses in background in the upper-left quadrant. Grove with orange trees in center. Two men fishing along the banks of a stream in the lower right foreground.
A black and white photograph of a train with gates cars filled with wooden sticks. In the foreground a man (possibly a worker) is looking to his left while he points to the train. Another man walks further up the tracks in the background.
Ceramic figure of a horse standing on a thin ceramic base, which a high-arched neck and a vertical head; large saddle with tassels; traces of orange-ochre, pink red and white pigments
Capital from the palace-city of Medinat al-Zahara with stylized acanthus leaves, vine rinceau and fleurons
Artist
Artist Unknown, Cordova, Spain
Physical Description
This capital, based upon the Roman composite order, features stylized acanthus leaves and rinceau on the bell of the capital, which terminates in a band of bead-and-reel motif on the astragal. This, in turn, is capped by an echinus decorated with three fleurons and vine rinceau on each face as well as four projecting volutes also decorated with rinceau and fleurons. Originally the bell of the capital had two tiers of acanthus leaves, but the capital has been cropped below the top of the first tier and the tips of the leaves, which once curved outward from the surface of the capital, have been sheared off.
Three women sit just inside the doorway of a building shown frontally to the viewer. The doorway is framed by windows on either side within an archietctural framework that connects the windows and door with a dado under the windows. The women have a large piece of fabric laid over their laps on which they are working. The woman at the left is angled so that she is looking into the room; the other two look out at the viewer. The profile of a fourth woman is visible in the central window on the left side of the door.
Artist Life Dates
1834 - 1903
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1897-1898
Accession Number
1954/1.408
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint, printed in warm black ink on laid paper, trimmed to plate
