EditorialQuatre Parties du monde, Joseph Gaspard Picart, Medium: silk Technique: damask, Panel of pale yellow silk damask with design of allegorical figures representing the Four Continents. Asia is depicted as a man seated on a camel carrying an open parasol, ...
EditorialCourt of the lion. The Fables of ?sop and others. Translated into hum. W. Kent & Co.: London, 1857. A man is tried at court for the ill treatment of a horse. The horse has a shark for his solicitor, and a fox, ape and vulture for council. The defendan...
EditorialThe Ape Tied in a Courtyard. Jean de Gourmont; French, 1506-1551. Date: 1520-1530. Dimensions: 85 ? 84 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Engraving in black on cream laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialMother Ape, 1595?96, Italian, Pesaro, Bronze, Overall (confirmed): H. 25 1/8 x W. 13 x D. 20 5/8 in., 192lb. (63.8 x 33 x 52.4 cm, 876kg), Sculpture-Bronze, A tailless barbary ape performs a mother?s balancing act. With her long arms she originally clu...
EditorialAn image provided by Chris Chapman of his Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT artwork, which he had listed for sale on OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, setting the price at about $1 million. (via Chris Chapman via The New York Times)
EditorialBarbary ape or macaque, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Simia silvanus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by C.D. Henning after an illustration drawn from nature by C. J. G. Reuss from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Na...
EditorialBarbary ape or macaque, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Simia inuus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Paul Nussbiegel after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Sc...
EditorialBarbary ape or macaque, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Tyroff after an illustration by Bourdachot from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, ...
EditorialBarbary ape or macaque, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by C.D. Henning after an illustration by C.J.G. Reuss from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Er...
EditorialThe Rake's Levee (A Rake's Progress) 1735 A levee is a reception held by a monarch or other high-ranking person on arising from bed. Tom is spending his inheritance on suppliers of expensive (and in particular unnecessary) services who try to en...