Artworks

Han-Chinese

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; pieced; painted details; edged with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; lined with silk, plain weave · 1700

Manchu

Center: silk, slit tapestry weave with eccentric and interlaced outlining wefts; painted; border: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 twill interlacings of secondary binding warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; lined with silk, 3:1 twill damask weave · 1700

Sebastiano Conca

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper · 1700

Francesco Campora

Pen and red brown ink with brush and brown wash and gouache, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on ivory laid paper, partially laid down · 1700

Asante

Copper alloy · 1700

Thomas Gainsborough

Black crayon on ivory laid paper · 1700

Sebastiano Conca

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper · 1700

Manchu

Silk brocade · 1700

Nicolas Vleughels

Black chalk with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper · 1700

Daniel Gran

Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper · 1700

Asante

Copper alloy · 1700

Nicolas Pierre Loir

Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper · 1700

Raphael

Black crayon on tan laid paper · 1700

Asante

Copper alloy · 1700

Sebastiano Conca

Red chalk heightened with lead white (discolored) on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper · 1700

Asante

Copper alloy · 1700

Jean Baptiste Pillement

Black chalk, with brush and black wash, on blue prepared ground on ivory paper, laid down on card · 1700

Giovanni Antonio Burrini

Brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper · 1700

Imitator of Willem van de Velde, II

Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on board · 1700

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper · 1700

Asante

Copper alloy · 1700

Asante

Copper alloy · 1700

J. Stuart Calcott

Pen and black ink, with touches of brush and black ink, on ivory laid paper · 1700

Giulio Romano

Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper · 1700