Artworks

Diné (Navajo)

Cotton and wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; twined selvages and heading, overcast finish terminating in tassels · 1880

Navajo (Diné)

Wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; twined selvages, heading and finish terminating in tassels · 1855

Miles & Edwards, 1847

printed, dyed & painted textiles, fragment with factory stamp — medium: cotton technique: block printed on plain weave foundation. block registration marks are visible. blocks for ten different colors were used. four bands of red weft (now faded) were woven into fabric at heading. · 1830

Manchu

Front and sides of irregular chair cushion. Satin stitch, stem stitch, knots and couching on yellow twill ground. Lined with coarse yellow damask. Cloud design. Front and sides of irregular chair cushion. 5 sided, 2 sides scalloped. Satin stitch, stem stitch, knots and couching on yellow twill ground. Center panel: symmetric design of lotus, bats, peonies, peaches, diamond symbols and scrolls on ground of all over blue swa etika altersating with pink quatrefoil in frame of 4 juiheads. Double gold stripe around central panel. Border and edge which covered thickness of cushion: blue scroll meander with peony, lotus, bats and diamonds. Lined with coarse yellow demask. Cloud design. · 1800

Gaetano Gandolfi

blue pastel (head); random pastel marks · 1780

Gaetano Gandolfi

blue pastel (head); random pastel marks · 1780

Gaetano Gandolfi

blue pastel (head); random pastel marks · 1780

Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian

blue pastel (head); random pastel marks · 1780

Giuseppe Sammartino

Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics · 1750

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

red chalk on blue paper heightened with white chalk; the tow upper cherubs' heads incised for transfer · 1750

Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard

Beechwood unusually richly carved and gilded; previously upholstered with coral colored velvet attached with brass-headed nails, now upholstered in yellow petit point · 1740

Giuseppe Sammartino

Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics · 1700

Abraham Brueghel and Guillaume Courtois

Etching on tan laid paper; verso graphite sketch of Saint's head traced from recto · 1656

Guillaume Courtois

Etching on tan laid paper; verso graphite sketch of Saint's head traced from recto · 1656

Courtois

Etching on tan laid paper; verso graphite sketch of Saint's head traced from recto · 1656

Guillaume Courtois

Etching on tan laid paper; verso graphite sketch of Saint's head traced from recto · 1656

Federico Barocci

Pen and brown ink, with touches of graphite and a later (?) addition of gray wash to head of Christ, on buff laid paper, squared in red chalk, laid down on cream laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper · 1575

Hendrik Goltzius

gray and brown chalk with pen and brown ink (the head, the undergarment, and the right hand are traced with pen and black ink) · 1558

Jean Goujon

bound volume with 1 woodcut headpiece and 11 woodcut illustrations including 2 fold-outs on laid paper · 1549

Jacopo Palma

Pen and brown ink, red chalk for child's head (recto); black chalk (verso) · 1548

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Book with fifteen woodcuts with letterpress in black on cream laid paper, in eighteenth-century full brown sheepskin, sewn on raised bands, with gold tooled decoration on inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, hand-sewn silk headbands, marbled endsheets, and a purple silk page marker · 1548

Albrecht Dürer

Book of letterpress text and woodcut illustations on cream laid paper, extra illustrated with a woodcut in black on ivory laid paper, tipped in after the front flyleaf; in full alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, sewn on raised thongs, blind tooled ‘all-over’ with small tools, with two brass hook-clasp fastenings and hand-sewn headbands · 1525

Albrecht Dürer

Woodcut and letterpress in black, with additions in pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, in modern full red calfskin, sewn on raised bands, with blind fillets around inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, and hand-sewn silk headbands · 1511

Taddeo di Bartolo

Tempera on wood (paint around head scraped away and vacant area gessoed) · 1410