deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, bit of right thigh, and left thigh, knee, and part of left calf of male to right; part of calf of a second figure?
Gordijnen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1860 – 1899
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: hangings and drapery
Livre des Arts
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1750 – 1778
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: 'astronomia', 'cosmografia'; 'cosmografia' (ripa), globe, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Allegorie van de astronomie. Twee putti met telescopen en een globe. Uitgeversnummer 190.
Portret van Pierre Riel de Beurnonville
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a
Portret van Michel Anguier
Object type: print
Date: 1733 – 1733
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Subjects: paris, sculptor, michel anguier, portrait, self-portrait of sculptor, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Vervaardigd voor zijn toetreden tot de Académie Royale op 31 december 1733, evenals het portret van Sébastien Bourdon naar Hyacinthe Rigaud (RP-P-OB-42.432).
Manuscript Memorandum of George Washington Describing Work to be Done on His Swords
Object type: memorandum
Date: 1779 – 1779
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: george washington
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1732 – 1799
Subjects: manuscripts,george washington

The text on this document reads: "Memm. The white Scabbard and the blade in it to be put to the steel hilted sword.––with steel mounting done in the neatest manner.––The shank which goes through the hilt to be reddened with sealing wax to give a lustre of that cast to the steel.–– The blade and scabbard to the steel hilted sword to be shifted to the other-and the mounting on the white scabbard, also made to fix thereon.–– Col. Hay will be so obliging as to induce Mr. Bayley to do this small job as soon as possible.–– 16th Nov. 1779. G. Washington"
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1735 – 1735
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: flowers,leaves,trees
Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)
Object type: painting
Date: 1891 – 1891
Materials: canvas, oil, paint
Techniques: painting
Location: france
Artist: paul gauguin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1848 – 1903
Subjects: landscapes, animals, building, buildings, bushes, clouds, dog, figure, figures, foliage, french, man, men, roof, sky, trees, woman, woman with children, women

“Everything in the landscape blinded and dazzled me,” wrote Paul Gauguin of his first months in Tahiti. Here, he showcased the island’s variety of bountiful fruit trees, including a thick-trunked, violet hotu at left; spindly mango and coconut trees; and three short banana plants with lush, splayed leaves. In the foreground, a man uses a stick to crack a coconut and a family rests in the grass with a sleeping dog beside them. The painting’s coarsely woven canvas, made of a fibrous plant matter (jute), is visible through the paint layer. Cheaper and more readily available than traditional canvas, this support material lends the work a rugged, organic texture.
Eigendliche Bildnuß deß Ehrwürdigen Wolgelehzten Herzn
Object type: print
Date: 1615 – 1615
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress printing
Location: ulm
Subjects: historical persons, book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van een vrouw met witte klederdrachtmuts
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1867 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: simon van caspel
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1843 – 1880
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, head-gear: cap, folk costume, regional costume
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘PHOTOGRAPHISCH ETABLISSEMENT/ van/ S. van CASPEL/ Wolvenstraat K K. 19./ AMSTERDAM’
Zaal met schutters in verschillende monteringen
Object type: costume print
Date: 1787 – 1787
Materials: paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: christiaan van waardt
Artist role: painter
Artist dates: 1761 – 1820
Subjects: (military) uniforms (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia), patriots (1780-1795)
Inscriptions: signature: ‘C. van Waardt Fecit’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Zaal met 35 schutters in de verschillende monteringen (uniformen) van schutterijen en burgerkorpsen in Nederland in 1787. Op een tafel liggen kaarten die worden bestudeerd. Tegen de achterwand schilderingen van staande Vrijheid, links een kop met trofee van wapens, rechts een kop met een trofee van muziekinstrumenten.
Moses with the Tables of the Law
Object type: print
Date: 1590 – 1600
Techniques: engraving
Artist: jacques de gheyn (ii)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1565 – 1629
's-Hertogenbosch. Emmaplein
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1907 – 1907
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: den bosch
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., den bosch
Inscriptions: date
Iseyama temple grounds, Yokohama
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1898
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: temple, shrine ~ non-christian religions, public gardens, park
Rotsachtig landschap met wegen en een rivier
Object type: print
Date: 1964 – 1964
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: charles james wright
Artist role: artist
Subjects: river, rocks
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘heavy pressure - final state in led-black oil/ink.’, annotation: ‘This proof is after Hercules Seghers'print in the Rijksmuseum Print Cabinet.’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, signature: ‘Charles James Wright, Amsterdam - 1964’, annotation: ‘heavy pressure - final state in led-black oil/ink’

In de collectie bevinden zich vier proeven in de techniek van Hercules Segers van de hand van Wright.
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary
Object type: antiphonary
Date: 1401 – 1500
Materials: ink, metal leaf, parchment, paint
Culture: italian
Liggende naakte vrouw met gespreide benen
Object type: print
Date: 1948 – 1948
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude

Prent uit: Lucianus van Samosata. Dialogues des Courtisanes. [Vertaald uit het Grieks door] Charles Astruc. Parijs: s.n., 1948, p. 24.
Coupe # 853
Object type: drawing
Date: 1865 – 1865
Materials: gouache, gum arabic, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

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
Eracles
Object type: print
Date: 1494 – 1498
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: nuremberg
Artist: albrecht dürer
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1471 – 1528
Subjects: hercules' fight with the molionides, the siamese twins
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Hercules verslaat met zijn knots de zogenoemde Molioniden: de tweeling Eurytus en Kteatus, die hun oom Augias bijstonden in zijn strijd tegen Hercules. Twee vrouwen staan bij Heracles en de twee neven: een mooie jongedame met lang krullend haar en een naakte oude vrouw met een kaakbeen in de hand.
Granieten beeldje te Kaïro. Derde dynastie
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1925 – 1935
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: autotype
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: sculpture, kneeling figure
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Fifteen black glazed fragments from kylikes
Case (Inrō) with Design of Nanban Flowers
Object type: inrō
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: gold, ivory, lacquer, silver, wood
Techniques: maki-e
Culture: japanese
Subjects: flowers
Man op wit paard aan zee
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, intaglio
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, sea
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Annie Toorop-Hall’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: linen, metal thread, silk
Stirrup Spout Bottle with Stacked Containers
Object type: bottle
Date: 101 – 600
Materials: ceramic, pigment
Culture: moche
Location: peru
Portret van Hiëronymus van Praag
Object type: print
Date: 1597 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress printing
Location: france
Subjects: historical persons, book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portretten van Allaert Claesz en Barend Dircksz
Object type: print
Date: 1764 – 1764
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jan l admiral
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1699 – 1773
Subjects: painter, barend dircksz
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent opgenomen in: Mander, Karel van; Jongh, Jacobus de (vert.). Het leven der doorluchtige Nederlandsche en eenige Hoogduitsche schilders. Amsterdam: Steven van Esveldt, 1764.
Snuff Bottle
Object type: snuff bottle
Date: 1736 – 1795
Materials: stone, coral
Culture: chinese
Subjects: human figures
Vita D. ioannis Baptistae
Object type: print
Date: 1617 – 1617
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: florence
Subjects: salome is given the head of john the baptist by the executioner, the beheading of john the baptist
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Onderdeel van een serie van dertien prenten en een titelprent.
Standbeeld van Willem van Oranje op het Plein in Den Haag
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1870
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: plein
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: delft, william i (prince of orange), monument, statue, square, place, circus, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Onderdeel van Album met foto's en litho's van bezienswaardigheden in Noord- en Zuid-Hollandse steden, schilderijen en klederdrachten.
Koeien aan het water
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1916
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: jacobus gerardus veldheer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1954
Subjects: cow, pond, pool
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Hoofd van verrijzende Christus
Object type: drawing
Date: 1683 – 1733
Materials: chalk, paper, pencil
Artist: bernard picart
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1673 – 1733
Subjects: christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Date: 1904 – 1904
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: milan
Artist: vittorio pica
Artist role: criticus
Artist dates: 1864 – 1930
Subjects: liège, painter, print maker, draughtsman, armand rassenfosse, carel nicolaas storm van 's-gravesande, etienne bosch, albrecht felix reicher, the hague, philip zilcken, photography, cinematography, the graphic arts, printed matter
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Portret van een vrouw met een baby op schoot
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1880 – 1940
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, infant, baby ~ the ages of man
Portrait of a Woman
Object type: painting, miniature
Date: 1818 – 1818
Materials: ivory, watercolor
Location: united states
Artist: anna claypoole peale
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1791 – 1878
Inscriptions: Signed, lower left: "Anna C / Peale / 1818"
Explorers Column, Cañon de Chelle, Arizona. This shaft is the work of nature, and is about 900 feet in height; base about 70 by 110 feet. It stands near the center of the Cañon, and it is almost impossible to believe that it is not the work of human hands, No. 23 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
Object type: photograph
Date: 1873 – 1873
Techniques: albumen print
Location: united states
Artist: timothy h. o'sullivan
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american, born ireland
Artist dates: 1840 – 1882
Subjects: collected by hugh edwards, geographical explorations and surveys
Roma. Porta S. Paolo e Piramide di Caio Cestio
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1906 – 1920
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: rome
Subjects: pyramid (historical grave form), city-gate, square, place, circus, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Portret van William Camden
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1650
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: jean jacques boissard
Artist dates: 1528 – 1598
Subjects: historical persons

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: Boissard, Jean Jacques. Bibliotheca chalcographica. 8 dln. Frankfurt am Main: Johannes Ammon, 1650. Ook gebruikt in latere edities. Eerdere staat van prent verschenen in: Boissard, Jean Jacques. Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina & eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae. 4 dln. Frankfurt am Main: s.n., 1597-1599. Mogelijk ook gebruikt in latere edities.
De ingressu Ierosolymam die Palmarum
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1590 – 1622
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: entry into jerusalem: people spreading their clothes before christ on the ass, and waving palm branches (matthew 21:1-11, 21:14-16; mark 11:1-11; luke 19:28-40; john 12:12-19)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Prent uit: Joannes Bourgois, Vitae passionis et mortis Jesu Christi Somini nostri mysteria, Antwerpen Hendrick Aertssens, 1622, afb. 45
Schetsboek met 34 bladen
Object type: sketchbook
Date: 1881 – 1927
Materials: chalk, leather, linen, paper, pencil, watercolor
Location: south holland
Artist: johan antonie de jonge
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1864 – 1927
Subjects: dune coast, factories and mills in landscape, sheep, coast, farm or solitary house in landscape, water-birds: duck
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, retailer's mark: ‘W.M. Stam/ Schilder- en/ Teekenbehoeften/ Papestraat 15/ Den Haag’

Schetsboek bestaande uit 34 bladen met duinlandschappen, figuurstudies en dierstudies.
Ruinarum varii prospectus
Object type: print
Date: 1585 – 1585
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: bonfire, fire-works, city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, number: ‘137’

Gezicht op de Engelenburcht. Het is nacht en er wordt vuurwerk afgestoken. Op de voorgrond de straat met toeschouwers. De prent is deel van een serie die verschillende plaatsen in het Middellandse Zeegebied afbeeldt.
Lezende mannen rond een tafel
Object type: print
Date: 1847 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: paris
Subjects: reading, chess, pipe ~ tobacco, oil-lamp, newspaper, news-sheet, political caricatures and satires
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 4779, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Interieur met zeven mannen rond een tafel, lezend in dagbladen. Boven de tafel hangt een olielamp. Een van de mannen rookt een lange pijp. In de achtergrond een doorkijk naar een ander vertrek waar mannen zitten te schaken.
Frame (Fronton)
Object type: frame
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: gilt, wood
Techniques: carving
Subjects: grapes,flowers,leaves,insignia
Vier seizoenen mode
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1898
Materials: paper, watercolor
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: france
Artist: auguste thomas marie blanchard
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1819 – 1898
Subjects: head-gear (+ women's clothes), summer ~ human activities (the four seasons of the year), fashion plates, dress, gown (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Een man en een vrouw zittend aan een tafel met ijscoupes. Onderdeel van een serie van vier prenten van de mode van ca. 1813 per seizoen. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: De Kleeding, Modeplaten.
Portret van Berthold Carl Seemann
Object type: photograph
Date: 1856 – 1866
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: ernest edwards
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1837 – 1903
Subjects: adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: name: ‘Photographed by Ernest Edwards, 20, Baker Street. W.’
Brief aan Jan Veth
Object type: letter
Date: 1905 – 1905
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: hendrick peter godfried quack
Artist role: econoom, geschiedschrijver, hoogleraar, jurist
Artist dates: 1834 – 1917
Subjects: the hague, jozef israëls, painter, léon bonnat, dordrecht, designer, jan veth, carel lodewijk dake, leiden, amsterdam, print maker, draughtsman, rembrandt van rijn, alphons diepenbrock
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Man in een bos
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1860 – 1866
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: dornach
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: forest, wood
Inscriptions: number: ‘No. 192’
Carte des Environs de Lille et Courtray, Pour l'Intelligence des Batailles de Tourcoin et de Pont a Chin, en 1794
Object type: history print
Date: 1800 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: maps of separate countries or regions, lille
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Kaart van het gebied tussen Lille, Tournai en Courtrai, waar op 16 en 22 mei 1794 veldslagen plaatsvonden tussen het Franse Revolutionaire leger en de Geallieerden. Op de kaart zijn de posities van de troepen in kleuren aangegeven. Genummerd rechtsboven: Pl. VIII.
Rit bien qui rit le dernier / Loontje komt om zijn boontje
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph, letterpress printing
Location: turnhout
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: fruit-tree culture; fruit harvest, hunter, tales and fairy tales
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 12 voorstellingen over twee mannen, Mr. Vos en Mr. Wijsneus, die elkaar voor de gek houden. Onder elke afbeelding een onderschrift in het Nederlands en in het Frans. Genummerd midden boven: N. 269.
Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, ou, Description des maisons royales, châteaux & autres lieux de plaisance, situés à quinze lieues aux environs de cette ville
Date: 1762 – 1762
Location: france
Artist: antoine nicolas dézallier d'argenville
Artist role: author
Artist dates: 1723 – 1794
At a County Fair
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Location: england
Artist: philipp william may
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1864 – 1903
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij van een gezicht op Meiringen
Object type: page
Date: 1863 – 1873
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: street, mountains
Inscriptions: number: ‘15.’
Wine glass
Object type: wine glass
Date: 1850 – 1860
Materials: diamond, glass
Techniques: pressed
Culture: american
Location: united states

With the development of new formulas and techniques, glass-pressing technology had improved markedly by the late 1840s. By this time, pressed tablewares were being produced in large matching sets and innumerable forms. During the mid-1850s, colorless glass and simple geometric patterns dominated. Catering to the demand for moderately-priced dining wares, the glass industry in the United States expanded widely, and numerous factories supplied less expensive pressed glassware to the growing market. At the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations at New York’s Crystal Palace in 1853, for example, the New England Glass Company exhibited 130 pieces of one design, "consisting of bowls, tumblers, champagnes, wines, and jelly glasses." This object belongs to one such service. Although the glass manufactory is not known, the glassware is very typical of the large services that were very popular with America’s middle class in the nineteenth century.
Pair of elephant-head vases (vases à tête d'éléphant)
Object type: vase pair
Date: 1758 – 1758
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Artist: sèvres manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1740 – 9999
Subjects: elephants

Relatively few elephant head vases were produced at Sèvres, perhaps due to the sculptural complexity of the model and thus the cost in making it. Of the twenty-one examples known to have survived, this Museum is fortunate in possessing six (see also 1976.155.61; 58.75.90a, b; 58.75.91a, b; and 1983.185.9).
Fall at Shurger's, East shore Cayuga Lake, near Ithaca, N.Y.
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1865
Techniques: albumen print
Location: ithaca
Artist: j. c. burritt
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1860 – 1869
Shinagawa Susaki (Shinagawa Susaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
Object type: print
Date: 1856 – 1856
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Head of a child
Object type: bust
Date: 1467 – 1500
Materials: marble
Subjects: heads

The donor, George Blumenthal, views this bust as by an artist between Benedetto da Maiano and Matteo Civitali.
Roundel with Amazons and a Cross
Object type: roundel
Date: 601 – 900
Materials: silk
Techniques: weave
Culture: byzantine
Location: egypt or syria
Subjects: bow and arrow,amazons,horses,lions

This silk fragment features two bare-breasted Amazons, or female warriors, who aim arrows at the rampant lions beneath their horses’ hooves. It is possible to trace the long popularity of this ancient iconography thanks to the large surviving numbers of similar silks in various colors and quality of weave. This example features a tiny cross at the top and bottom of the circular frame filled with heart shapes and vegetal patterns.
Francis Rawle
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1869 – 1869
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Location: boston
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult man