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Amulet with a Lamashtu demon
Object type: necklace, bead
Date: 1000 – 668
Materials: obsidian
Location: mesopotamia or iran
Subjects: arrows,boars,dogs,demons

This plaque is made of obsidian, a naturally-occurring glass produced by volcanic activity, and finely carved in intaglio, in which a design is carved into a flat surface, creating a negative image. The top edge of the rectangular plaque is damaged, but enough remains to indicate that it originally had a projecting element at top center, probably drilled horizontally in order to allow the amulet to be strung and worn on the body or otherwise suspended. The image and text both relate to Lamashtu, daughter of the sky god Anu. This powerful demon was cast out of the heavens, in some accounts because she requested to dine on the flesh of human babies. Restless and angry, she roamed the earth violently attacking vulnerable creatures, especially pregnant mothers and newborns. Lamashtu is shown with a tall, sinewy human body, with stringy muscles emphasized by the parallel striations in the carving. Her head is that of a lion-griffin, with pointed ears and open, roaring mouth from which the tongue protrudes. She holds her arms symmetrically, bent at the elbows, with clawed lion’s paws held upright in an aggressive posture; her feet take the shape of the talons of a bird of prey. In other images of Lamashtu, a puppy and a piglet are shown suckling at her pendulous breasts; here, the adult animals simply flank her, facing towards her. The objects surrounding her are meant to be gifts, offered to placate her: a comb, spindle, and pin, whose pointed end is visible beneath the broken area at top left, are domestic attributes associated with women, while the animal limb at upper right may be a food offering. The arrow-shaped object pointing to her lower back is not well understood but could be intended as a weapon used against the demon. An inscription in Akkadian, written in cuneiform script, runs around the central panel, serving to imprison this fearsome creature. The text, which continues across the entire back of the amulet, is similar to that found on other Lamashtu amulets, addressing her as "exalted lady" and calling upon multiple gods to exorcise her. Over sixty Lamashtu amulets have survived, most dating to the early first millennium B.C. They vary widely in material and carving style, and many also include Pazuzu, king of the evil wind demons, shown driving Lamashtu back to the netherworld. On view in the museum is a pendant in the form of Pazuzu’s head (1993.181). Images of both demons were used for personal protection by people in the ancient Near East against the destructive, chaotic power of Lamashtu.
Women’s Suffrage Party
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: cyanotype
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: 'suffragette', scabrous scenes, pornography, voting ballot, penis, phallus

Pastiche op een stembiljet van de Women’s Suffrage Party.
Mary, Queen of Scots set in an ornamental frame
Object type: print
Date: 1834 – 1866
Techniques: etching, engraving
Location: france
Artist: mangeon
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1835 – 1878
Subjects: queens,women,mary queen of scots
La Toilette de Venus
Object type: print
Date: 1783 – 1783
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: aquatint, printmaking, etching
Location: france
Artist: jean-françois janinet
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1752 – 1814

One of Jean François Janinet's most ambitious productions, this carefully wrought print reproduces at one-third size a painting by François Boucher made in 1751 for his most important patron, the Marquise de Pompadour. The painting hung in the bathroom of the marquise's château at Bellevue and was sold after her death in 1764, probably to Jean François Chereau, the publisher of this elaborate print.
Reisverslag
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Materials: pencil
Location: novaya zemlya
Artist: louis apol
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1850 – 1936
Subjects: nova zembla expedities 1880

Blad 92 recto uit een schetsboek met 110 bladen betekend tijdens de expeditie naar Nova Zembla in 1880.
Rekenpenning uit Middelburg op de verwachte hulp van Koningin Elisabeth van Engeland 1586
Object type: history medal
Date: 1586 – 1586
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking

Koperen penning, op de voorzijde acht wapenschilden rond het gekroonde wapenschild van Zeeland, met omschrift, op de keerzijde het gekroonde wapenschild van Zeeland in een hartvormige cartouche, met omschrift.
Sleigh, no. 3413
Object type: drawing
Date: 1878 – 1878
Materials: gouache, gum arabic, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: sleighs

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Lady Audley
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Artist: francesco bartolozzi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1728 – 1815
Petit almanach de la cour de France : 1819. treizième année
Date: 1818 – 1818
Location: france

Red morocco binding, stamped in gold.
The Sliver Age
Object type: print
Techniques: mezzotint
Artist: john raphael smith
Artist role: engraver
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1751 – 1812

Based on a painting by Henry Walton, this print was published as a companion to Benjamin West’s "The Golden Age" (47.100.487). The two titles evoke early periods of human society described by ancient authors such as Hesiod and Ovid. Peace had prevailed in the preceding Golden Age when humans needed to do little work and mingled freely with the Olympian gods. But, in the following Silver Age, strife dominated society and labor became necessary for survival. As translated into eighteenth-century England, that decline is embodied by a weary market girl who has set down her heavy basket of chickens. Smith’s title alerts us to the underlying moral message that criticizes child labor.
Boer leunend op onderdeur
Object type: print
Date: 1651 – 1655
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, galvanization
Location: haarlem
Subjects: divided door, upper part opened, male sex; man
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘B’, collector's mark: ‘RIJKS / MUSM’

De prent maakt deel uit van een portefeuille en is met een andere prent op één albumblad gedrukt.
Cupido en een stervende maagd
Object type: print
Date: 1637 – 1637
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress printing
Location: the hague
Subjects: cupid shooting a dart, physician, doctor, death as skeleton - ff - death as female
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Cupido heeft een pijl in het hart van een jonge vrouw geschoten en kijkt geschrokken toe hoe zij sterft. Een dokter voelt haar pols en houdt een fles met vloeistof in zijn hand. Op de achtergrond een tafelend liefdespaar, waarvan de man een pijl, die de dood op hem afvuurde, in zijn rug heeft. De Dood krabt verbaast op zijn schedel omdat de geraakte man niet dood neervalt maar verliefd is. Uit de tekst bij de prent blijkt dat de pijlenbundels van Cupido en de Dood verwisseld zijn waardoor de jonge vrouw sterft en de oude man verliefd is.
The Strange Pines of Mount Tiantai
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1687 – 1687
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: chinese
Artist: dai benxiao
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Artist dates: 1621 – 1693
Subjects: mountains

A refuge since its discovery in the fourth century, Mount Tiantai is a legendary dwelling place of Buddhist holy men; its natural stone bridge is a fabled point of connection between this world and the paradise of the immortals. Dai Benxiao, whose Ming-loyalist father committed suicide after being injured in a battle against Qing forces, focuses here on the mountain's pines. Symbolic of survival in times of adversity, the pines, having been suddenly threatened, reflect the artist's uncertainty about his ability to find spiritual sanctuary in a world from which he feels alienated: The strangely shaped pine trees of Mount Tiantai have been depicted by artists of previous periods. . . . I have decided to portray this theme, drawing upon my own imagination. I have heard recently that most of these strange pines have met the sad fate of extinction. It seems that once the natural wonders of the sky, earth, mountains, and rivers are exposed to the intimate scrutiny of the dusty world, they do not last long. This is indeed cause for lamentation. Dawn Ho Delbanco, trans.,
Mary Magdalene in Wilderness
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: belgium
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: flemish
Artist dates: 1600 – 1699
Glass jar
Object type: jar
Date: 7000 – 330
Materials: glass

Translucent pale green; applied blobs in same color. Outsplayed, horizontal rim, with rounded outer lip; concave cylindrical neck; broad, sloping shoulder; convex side to body tapering downwards; integral base ring; uneven bottom with central kick covered by pad from pontil. On body, three roughly horizontal rows of applied but flattened blobs in relief, all of differing sizes and shapes, some with trailing ends: top row comprises ten large blobs, middle row ten smaller blobs, and bottom row eleven blobs. Intact; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and large areas of thick enamel-like creamy weathering.
Freer Glen at Watkins View of Upper Glen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1865
Techniques: albumen print
Location: united states
Artist: j. c. burritt
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1860 – 1869
Glass krater (mixing bowl)
Object type: bowl
Date: 200 – 1
Materials: glass
Culture: greek

Translucent deep honey yellow. Outsplayed horizontal rim with slightly rounded edge; hemispherical body with convex curving sides; small, slightly convex bottom on interior; applied tall, outsplayed base with a solid, cylindrical stem with slightly concave profile, a deep concave bottom, and a thick vertical outer edge. On upper edge of rim, two broad concentric grooves; on interior, a single broad horizontal groove below rim; on exterior, three concentric grooves around bottom and applied base; on base, a single broad horizontal groove below stem, another around top of outer edge, and a third groove in vertical edge. Broken and repaired, with many small areas missing, especially in body; a few pinprick and larger bubbles; patches of thick creamy weathering and elsewhere some dulling and iridescence. Rotary grinding marks on interior and exterior of both body and base. One small jagged piece of same-colored glass is attached to the bottom of the base. This large footed bowl, possibly used for mixing wine, belongs to a small group of luxury glass vessels that remains problematic, for neither their date nor their place of manufacture have yet been precisely ascertained.
Coin Portraying Emperor Quintillus
Object type: coin
Date: 270 – 270
Materials: bronze, copper alloy, metal
Culture: roman
Location: roman empire
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C H AUR CL QUINTILLVS  AVG
Reverse: SECVRIT AVG

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the emperor Quintillus, facing right and wearing a crown.

On the back (reverse), the goddess of security stands facing left, holding what appears to be a sceptre.
Orvieto. Interno del Duomo
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1906 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: orvieto
Subjects: church (exterior)
Cabinet
Object type: cabinet
Date: 1879 – 1882
Materials: brass, silk
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: herter brothers
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1864 – 1906

William H. Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, inherited a vast fortune and a lucrative transport business, which he expanded exponentially, becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. In 1879, to mark his elevated social and economic status, he built a mansion that spanned an entire city block on Fifth Avenue, between Fifty-First and Fifty-Second Streets. He commissioned Herter Brothers, one of the premier cabinetmaking firms in New York City, to decorate and furnish his home. In devising distinct decorative schemes for each room of the mansion, Herter Brothers drew inspiration from a wide range of historical styles and utilized expensive, exotic materials. Adjacent to the drawing room was the Japanese parlor. Evocative of Asian designs, the ceiling was sheathed in golden bamboo set between red lacquer beams. As summarized in “Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection” (1883–84), “Japan has lent its ideas and its esthetic stamp, even where the workmanship is American.” The walls were virtually obscured by the cabinetry, a repository for a collector’s treasury, consisting of étagères with elaborate asymmetrical shelving. The bottom doors of this cabinet, stained in subtle tones of gold and red, feature low-relief carvings of stylized blossoms, leaves, and pomegranates in the manner of carved laquerwork. At the center, the three irregular metal rectangular panels depict relief scenes that echo Japanese landscape painting and are also colored red and gold.
Portrait of a Man
Object type: painting, miniature
Date: 1765 – 1775
Materials: ivory
Artist: british painter
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Subjects: men,portraits
Bladzijden uit Architectura over de Reguliersgracht
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, line block
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', canal, building-site, bridge in city across river, canal, etc., street
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘11.112’ Lugt 1641b, inscription: ‘Adr. Moen./ De Reguliersgracht / Architectura. 30-01-09 / 5’

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Raadhuisstraat, Raamgracht, Raamplein, Rapenburgerstraat, Reguliersgracht, Reguliersbreestraat. Zeven bladzijden uit meerdere uitgaven van Architectura, allen over de Reguliersgracht.
The Lovers
Object type: print
Date: 1601 – 1700
Techniques: etching
Artist: anonymous, italian, 17th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1600 – 1700
Subjects: men,lovers,women
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1590 – 1590
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, ornament ~ cartouche, (map of) america

Hoekornament met een ronde kaart van Noord- en Zuid-Amerika in een omlijsting van rol- en beslagwerk. Midden onder een langwerpig cartouche met de tekst: En Spectator ... Het ornament is een fragment van een kaart van de Oude Wereld. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Dansen van Sfessania
Object type: print
Date: 1621 – 1622
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: nancy
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635
Subjects: types in 'commedia dell'arte'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Twee artiesten met gevederde hoofddeksels op en zwaarden in de hand staan tegenover elkaar. Onder de figuren staan hun namen genoteerd. Deze prent is onderdeel van een serie van 23 prenten (24 incl. titelprent) met telkens op de voorgrond twee straatartiesten verkleed als figuren uit de Italiaanse commedia dell'arte, en op de achtergrond toeschouwers die in de buitenlucht een (dans)voorstelling van straatartiesten gadeslaan.
Portret van Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries
Object type: print
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Artist: jan veth
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1925
Subjects: amsterdam, auctioneer, publisher, reinier willem petrus de vries (1841-1919), historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Stereofoto van een gezicht op de Gorges de la Bourne in negatief
Object type: page
Date: 1882 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: france
Artist: adolphe louis donnadieu
Artist role: wetenschapper
Artist dates: 1840 – 1911
Subjects: ravine, chasm, abyss, canyon, france
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Pl. V’, inscription: ‘Juillet 1890’
Portret van David Flud van Giffen, predikant te Dordrecht
Object type: print
Date: 1682 – 1682
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: dordrecht
Subjects: parts of church exterior and annexes: tower
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Plate 25 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'These too' (Tambien estos)
Object type: print
Date: 1810 – 1810
Techniques: engraving, drypoint, etching
Artist: goya (francisco de goya y lucientes)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: suffering,men
Terracotta fragment of a stemless kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 467 – 435
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, lower body and legs of a draped male to left, holding a knobby stick with his left hand, and his right arm, which is behind his back, over a laver; in front of him, a block seat; Exterior, profiled unglazed ring foot; the resting surface is also unglazed, and has a graffito; the inner wall of the foot is glazed, although most of it is worn; the underside of the floor is in reserve and has a thin black glaze circle in the center, inside of which there is a smaller circle with a dot in the middle
Heerensocieteit - Groote Markt - Groningen
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: zwolle
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., façade (of house or building)
Flower Piece at Kate Bemis' Funeral
Object type: photograph
Techniques: albumen print
Location: saint johnsbury
Artist: d. a. clifford
Schmied am Ambos
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1889 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Location: germany
Subjects: smith, blacksmith, forging (industrial process)
Village on a River
Object type: print
Date: 1601 – 1700
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Artist: jan ruischer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Subjects: houses,villages,rivers,trees
Twee tafels
Object type: print
Date: 1878 – 1904
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: table

Twee tafels met opklapbaar blad. Prent uit 65e Livraison.
Alexander Bennett "Ben" Sanders, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes

The "Old Judge" series of baseball cards (N172) was issued by Goodwin & Company from 1887 to 1890 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes.
Shaklin Chine
Object type: print
Date: 1794 – 1794
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint
Location: england
Artist: p. roberts
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates:  – 19
Landschappen
Object type: print
Date: 1614 – 1616
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: haarlem
Subjects: farm or solitary house in landscape, haarlem
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Op de tweede uitgave van de prentserie Landschappen voegde Hendrik Hondius een plaatsaanduiding toe. Dit landschap met een boerderij ligt volgens het opschrift Buyten Haerlem.
Christus voorspelt zijn lijden
Object type: print
Date: 1629 – 1629
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: christ's arrest, trial, and torture, christ foretelling his passion (at various occasions) (matthew 16:21, 17:22-23; mark 8:32, 9:31; luke 9:22, 9:44)

De prent is afkomstig uit een van de uitgaven van P.J. Paets uit Amsterdam. Ze wordt voor het eerst gebruikt in: Der Zielen Lust-hof. Leuven, I.Jacbosz voor P.J. Paets [= Amsterdam, P.J. Paets], 1629.
De voorstelling is gekopieerd naar een prent van Antonie II Wierix voor: Nadal, Jerónimo. Evangelicae Historiae Imagines. Antwerpen, M. Nutius, 1593.
Slippers
Object type: slipper
Date: 1840 – 1859
Materials: silk
Culture: european
Fragment van een tafellaken met de inname van Rijssel door Eugenius van Savoye
Object type: tablecloth
Materials: linen
Techniques: damask
Location: kortrijk
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: vienna, eugenius van savoye

Fragment van een tafellaken van linnendamast met de inname van Rijssel door Eugenius van Savoye. Twee ruiters met het bijschrift: EGENIUS. In drie kransen de tekst: SISTE SOL IN GIBEON, ET LUNA IN VALLE...IA-ALON (Blijf staan, zon, te Gibeon en gij, maan, in het dal van Ajalon, Josua 9:13), de zon en de maan en het bijschrift: RIS-SEL. Staande randen: Doorlopende ranken.
A Dictionary of Painters, from the revival of the art to the present period, by the rev. M. Pilkington, A.M. A New Edition, with considerable alterations, additions, an appendix, and an index, by Henry Fuseli, R.A.
Object type: titelblad, titelpagina
Date: 1805 – 1805
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: london
Artist: john p. crowder
Artist role: printer, publisher
Artist dates: 1787 – 1830
Subjects: title-page
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘GF/ 7/ H/ 1’

Titelpagina voor: Pilkington, Matthew en Johann Heinrich Füssli. A dictionary of painters, from the revival of the art to the present period. 4 dln. Londen: John Crowder, 1805.
Christmas Academics Playing a Rubber at Whist
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: satire,men,women,playing cards,dogs,games
Half Model of a 3-Gun Gunboat
Object type: half model
Date: 1798 – 1798
Materials: wood
Techniques: polychromy
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription, top centre, on an oval black label: ‘10 / CANONNEER / BOOT. 3 St: / GB: 1798.’

Gepolychromeerd mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een eenmast platbodem. Eén geschutpoort in de boeg. Rond achterschip, breed roer met helmstok over dek; roerkop versierd met bloemmotief. De zeeg loopt naar voren en achter op, één barkhout.
Yashima, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1903
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: tsukioka kogyo
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1869 – 1927