Full-length portrait of four little people (two men and two women) in wedding attire. This may be a portrait of the actual "General Tom Thumb" (Charles Sterwood Stratton, 1838-1883), a dwarf who became famous traveling in P.T. Barnum's...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Mixed media; Allusions; Symbols; Fantasy; Communication; Fear; Disgrace; Anxiety; Distress; Loneliness; Despair; Lust; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Body parts; Human body; Genitals; Hands; Fingers; Beaches
"The painting they refused to show in Barcelona." (Caption); "One of the most sexually provocative of the summer's paintings was Dialogue on the Beach, whose much later title, Unsatisfied Desires, clarifies its theme. The hand on the...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Portrait photographs; Portraits
Picture of Commander Henry Walke, who has messy dark hair, curved eyebrows, and a light beard above a straight mouth. Walke wears a double breasted long jacket with the arms too long and one button undone, where he has inserted his right thumb. His...
A winter mill scene painted on a painter's palette. The scene includes a water mill, mill house, bridge, and pine trees. Paintbrushes stick out of the thumb hole of the palette, which stands against a woodgrain background. "Valentine" is...
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...
