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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Dainagon Tsunenobu,1016-1097:Autumn;wind over the rice-paddies;a Buddhist pilgrim with drum and drumstick holds his hat;men carry rice in baskets;the rice is washed in its basket in the river.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Dainagon Tsunenobu,1016-...

"The Sun,the Moon and a Basilisk", around 1512. The sun, the moon and the basilisk (half eagle, half serpent,hatched from a cock's egg by a serpent), together represent Eternity. This small drawing is a fragment from a translation of the "Hieroglyphica" by Horapollo, translated by Willibald Pirkheimer, a foremost humanist and close friend of Duerer. PD 1932-7-9-2
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"The Sun,the Moon and a Basilisk", around 1512. The sun, the moon and the basili...

The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, 1859. This image was the design for an imperial cameo. In 1859 Napoleon III commissioned the sculptor Adolphe David to carve a companion cameo to the largest surviving cameo from the classical world, the Grand Camee de la Chapelle Royale. Ingres made this design for David in the shape of the Grande Camee, based on a design for a ceiling in the Hotel de Ville in Paris. The ceiling, executed by Ingres in 1853 (but destroyed by fire in 1871) showed the same subject. Although David worked on this commission for thirteen years, no large enough stone was ever found and the final cameo showed only the central group of figures. The date (1821) inscribed by Ingres next to his name at the lower left of the drawing is the date of Napoleon's death. PD, 1949-2-12-6
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The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, 1859. This image was the design for an imperial ca...

Charlotte-Madeleine Taurel, daughter of the engraver, 1825. Pencil on paper, 16,9 x 12,8 cm RF 4624
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Charlotte-Madeleine Taurel, daughter of the engraver, 1825. Pencil on paper,...

Romulus,vainqueur d'Acron - Romulus' victory over Acron. One of several sketches for a painting of 1812 for the apartments of Empress Marie-Luise at the Palazzo Montecavallo in Rome. Pen and pencil, black ink, grey wash, hightened in white. 33,5 x 53 cm. RF 4623
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Romulus,vainqueur d'Acron - Romulus' victory over Acron. One of several sketche...

Apotheosis of Napoleon I. Inscription, in gold, underneath: "In nepote redivivus erit" - he shall live in his nephew. Tondo, 14.5 cm across. RF 3608
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Apotheosis of Napoleon I. Inscription, in gold, underneath: "In nepote redivivu...

The Flight to Egypt, 1557-1559. Angels are shown pulling down the branches of a tree for the infant Jesus to take the fruit and eat. The Virgin Mary and the Christchild are riding on a donkey, led by the aged Saint Joseph.
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The Flight to Egypt, 1557-1559. Angels are shown pulling down the branches of a...

'A Horse Affrighted by a Lion', 1777. The picture is intended to express the terror of the horse and to invite the spectator to identify with the innocent and beautiful victim. The sublime emotional intensity is reinforced by the stormy weather and the wild landscape. Stubbs has transferred a formula for expressing human terror - staring eyes, stretched nostrils, bared teeth - to his animal subject. The design exploits the increasing sympathy felt in the late eighteenth century for animals in distress and for victims of cruelty in general. PD, 1865-1-14-909
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'A Horse Affrighted by a Lion', 1777. The picture is intended to express the ter...

Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat, 1869. Dante Gabriel Rossetti loved exotic animals and began to collect them with a passion after the tragic death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal in 1862. He had moved to 16 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, a house with a large garden that soon became a miniature zoo. The wombats had a special place in Rossetti's heart. In a letter to his brother he described the arrival of the first one as 'a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness'. This drawing commemorates the short-lived second wombat. Instead of being laid to rest in the tomb depicted in the background, the marsupial was stuffed and placed in Rossetti's entrance hall. PD, 1939-5-13-6
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Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat, 1869. Dante Gabriel Rossetti loved e...

"Linda maestra" - "Gentle mistress",etching No.68 from the "Caprichos",around 1798
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"Linda maestra" - "Gentle mistress",etching No.68 from the "Caprichos",aro...

"Alla va eso",("This way"),etching No.66 from the "Caprichos",around 1798.
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"Alla va eso",("This way"),etching No.66 from the "Caprichos",around 1798.

A demon flies from the Thunder God, Edo period, 17th-early 18th century. A winged demon has been surprised by Raijin, the Thunder God. Raijin can be identified by the ring of drums which he beats to sound like thunder. A wild boar and an owl watch from the right. These scenes are from a handscroll with comic pictures which may have been intended as a model for other artists to copy. JA,JP 657 (1902.6-6.012)
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A demon flies from the Thunder God, Edo period, 17th-early 18th century. A winge...