EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Eighth night: A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Sixteenth night: The daughter-in-law returns from her misadventure, feigning insanity, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialPartridges and their nests. Bestiary. England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. (Whole folio) Above, partridges camouflage their nests and lead enemies away by feigning injury. Below, a female partridge steals the eggs of other birds, intending to bring up the ...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a fox feigning death, in order to attack the birds that gather round. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.99v. Language: Latin, with Fre...
EditorialPartridges. Bestiary. England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. (Top Miniature) Partridges camouflage their nests and lead enemies away by feigning injury. Image taken from Bestiary. Originally published/produced in England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. . Source: ...
Editorial?, ?? (????), ???, ?, Landscape album, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1699, China, Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on paper, Image (each): 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18.7 x 23.2 cm), Paintings, Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) (Chinese, 1626?1705), A scion of a br...