Excavated by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 1912. Acquired by Lord Carnarvon in the division of finds. Carnarvon Collection, 1912-1926. Carnarvon Collection purchased by the Museum from Lady Carnarvon, 1926
She also has one arm bent and holds a lotus bud in her raised hand, a gesture not
While most landscapists of the day traveled extensively in search of picturesque or sublime scenery, Constable never left England.
wet-in-wet, Constable used short strokes and a restricted color palette to train his hand
Late Cypriot II Date: ca. 1450–1200 BCE Culture: Cypriot Medium: Terracotta; hand-made
charioteer stands in his quadriga, holding a victory wreath in his outstretched right hand
long tunic, indicating his position in the church as a deacon, and in his right hand
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in gathering China mid-18th century Bowl with acrobatic performance China Hand
Acquired in Angola by Count Admiral Francisco Antonio Gonçalves Cardoso (1800–1875), Governor of Portuguese Angola (1866–1869); by descent to his family until before 1981; (Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, June 24, 1981, no
Instrument in hand, the chief is cast as a repository and guardian of historical
She holds a pomegranate in her left hand and is nude except for a necklace and a
Thracian dress, identifies the setting, while the woman who holds a sickle in her left hand
in the same ink used to retouch the drawing, in what may be a sixteenth-century hand
