Turkish Woman of the Middle Class at Home
Unidentified Artist
Peyk, or Messenger from the Persian Nation
Unidentified Artist
Peyk, or Messenger from the Persian Nation
Louis Daret
Sketches after Hokusai
Japanese
Coin of Constantine X, r. 1059-1067
Constantine X
Coin of Constantine IX, r. 1042 - 1055
Constantine IX
Coin of Romanos IV, r. 1068 - 1071
Romanos IV
Coin of Justinian II, r. 685-695; co-r. 705-711
Justinian II
Coin of Justinian II, r. 685-695; co-r. 705-711
Justinian II
Indra Pays Homage to Krishna (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), in business 1769-1780
Wedgwood & Bentley
Burrhus Kneeling before Peron
Anonymous France 1840
Illustrated Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse (Kokin wakashū) in Five Volumes
Japanese
Printed Preface to Lotus Sutra (Hokke gengijo)
Japanese
Poems Compiled by Yoshida Kenkō, 1283-1350 (Kenkō kashū)
Japanese
Landscapes of Taiping Prefecture ('Taiping shanshui tu'), 1596 - 1674
Xiao Yuncong 蕭雲從
Ishiyama-gire Page: Poems of Lady Ise, 1088 - 1156?
Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara Sadanobu
Young Man Watching Woman Writing, detatched frontispiece from the Cuckoo's Verse Picturebook (Ehon haikai yabukodori), 1726 - 1792
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章
Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
Guanyin Chapter from an Illustrated Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin)
Chinese