A drawing of the Holbein Chamber at Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. An arched passageway is seen near the center of the image, thorough which a canopy bed and a chair are visible. On either side of the passageway are pierced arch...
Alternative Title:
Holbien Chamber
Description:
Titled in ink below image: Holbien chamber.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Interiors, Chimneypieces, Furniture, Vases, and Rugs
A young girl begs for change as she holds out a hat to a couple heading toward the crowd around the tents at Epsom Derby. Her father (?) half kneels while playing a violin, and a woman (her mother?) clutches a baby to her breast
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Epsom Derby, England (Horse race), Beggars, Crowds, and Families
Two watercolor drawings, one depicting three butterflies/moths and a beetle, and the other depicting three insects (a moth on a leaf, a butterfly, and a crane fly).
Drawing in red chalk on hand-ruled paper by an unidentified artist, of the decorative cartouche for John Mitchell's Map of the British and French dominions in North America. Represented in the drawing are two Native American figures in the lower right...
Description:
John Mitchell (1711-1768), was a British botanist, physician, and cartographer. He created A Map of the British and French dominions in North America (London: Andrew Millar, 1755), also known as the Mitchell Map, later used in negotiating the 1783 Tre...
Two watercolor drawings made in and around the Central Utah Relocation Center, an American concentration camp near Delta, Utah. The first is an untitled landscape view of the Topaz Valley, the site of the camp; it measures 28 x 39 cm and is signed at ...
Description:
Charles Erabu "Suiko" Mikami was born in Hiroshima, Japan, on January 30, 1902. He studied sumi-e brush painting before immigrating to the Seattle, Washington, in 1919, where he worked as a produce broker while continuing to paint and write poetry in ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, and Sevier Desert (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Mikami, Charles Erabu, 1902-1998. and Central Utah Relocation Center
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Concentration camps, Japanese Americans, and Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
