Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the...
"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...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left (all images signed "Hartwell" unless otherwise noted): Sardanapalus (Assyrian king) seated on throne holding a goblet aloft, with men and women in attendance; scene in city square;...
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between 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...
“The Panathenaic procession passing through the Propylaea, the gate of the Acropolis. The ceremonial boat, on which the new tunic (peplos) for Athena may have been hoisted as a sail, would probably have been parked alongside the Clepsydra...
Fresco: "A young employee carding a tunic, and a second worker with a cage made of reeds on which fabric was stretched to be bleached with sulfur steam." (Caption, p. 137); "One of the liveliest shop fronts excavated in the early...
Portrait of writer Cordia Greer-Petrie of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing an elaborately decorated hat, tunic top, skirt and holding a carpet bag. The photograph is discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Photo by Cusick. Stamped on back:...
Sallie Aley (Mrs. Alvin T.) Hert of Louisville, Kentucky using a telephone, wearing a hat and tunic dress. The photograph has been cut so that only she is visible. Handwritten on back of image: Mrs. A.T. Hert, GOP leader. Stamped on back: June 10,...
Boy in a tunic top standing on a rock and blowing a long, narrow horn. Above the image is the phrase "Ex Libris." Below the image is the name "Edward Wilson Hewett." Edward Wilson Hewett, an artist and writer, is the eldest son...
Men; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival
A young man wearing a velvet tunic, pantaloons, and cape with high socks, buckled shoes, and feathered cap, stands outdoors. He is likely in costume for a role in the annual American Folk Song Festival.
Men; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival
A young man wearing a velvet tunic, pantaloons, and cape with high socks, buckled shoes, and feathered cap, stands outdoors. He is likely in costume for a role in the annual American Folk Song Festival.
Full-length character portrait of stage and screen actor Alphonse (sometimes spelled Alphonz) Ethier in costume as Ben Hur, a role he performed at Macauley's Theatre in March 1905. He wears a helmet, chain metal vest, short tunic, and Roman...
Portrait of actress and director Ethel Barrymore with her dark hair piled atop her head, wearing a white tunic with arm bands. Barrymore was born August 15, 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents (Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew),...
Full-length character portrait of actor Louis James in costume as dastardly villain. He wears a hat with plume; tunic with cape and tights; a sword at his side; and a mustache, small pointy beard, and devilish expression on his face, perhaps...
Full-length character portrait of actors Alphonse (sometimes spelled Alphonz) Ethier and Mae Burgess in costume for their roles as Ben Hur and Iras, respectively, which they performed at Macauley's Theatre in the March 1905 production of "Ben...
Full-length character portrait of actor Malcolm Bradley in costume for role as a monk. He wears a brown tunic, and looks upward, with arms outstretched. He may have worn this costume in the miracle play "The Proud Prince," starring E. H....
Full-length character portrait of stage and screen star Melbourne MacDowell wearing a tunic, leggings, boots with spurs, and carrying a sword. MacDowell was born in 1857 in South River, New Jersey. He married fellow performer Fanny Davenport...
Character portrait of Fernando Michelena in three-quarter profile, wearing a mustache and velvet tunic. He is likely in costume for the title role in the opera "Ernani," which he performed with the Emma Abbott Grand English Opera Company...
