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A Dance of Shepherdesses

The drawing reproduced as an engraving shows three women, barefoot and in ankle-length short-sleeved dresses. One is seated, playing divided pipes; she’s sitting on the steps of a circular neo-Classical temple with fluted columns. The othr two women have wreathes in their hair, one of daisies and the other of laurel leaves. They dance together left [...] [more...] [$]

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

This engraving of the moon with a man’s bearded face in it appeared as a small detail on a decorated initial letter attributed to the French painter François Emile Ehrmann (1833 – 1910). [more...] [$]

Border with mathematical instruments

This chapter head is made of two parts: to the left and top, an L-shaped steel ruler or square, perhaps, with a weight hanging by a string (a pumb-line probably; it may have been a roofing square); under the top part of the ruler, a collection of protractors, a telescope, dividers, [...] [more...] [$]

Friebs with cherubs and grotesque fountain

A gargoyle or grotesque head for a stone fountain with winged barefoot and naked boys (putti, or cherubs) being mischievous and getting into fights. Although the grotesque head here looks like a fountain spout, what actually comes out are festoons, not [...] [more...] [$]

Statue of Mirabeau

A well-dressed man in a suit has one arm outstretched to point the way forward, a French sculpture that could have been used as a directional signpost. The statue was exhibited at the Paris exhibition (salon) of [...] [more...] [$]