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The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment
1789–96
Gazette du bon ton: arts, modes et frivolities
1912–15 and 1920–25
Wendingen
March 1919 (Dance Issue); copy 2 of no. 3
1919
Berlin, Rom, Tokio
1939
VVV
New York: VVV, 1942–1944
Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944)
Surrealist intrusion in the enchanters' domain
D'Arcy Galleries
1960
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly
1810
Marble female figure
Bastis Master
2600–2400 BCE
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
1330s
View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph
Paul Cézanne
late 1880s
The Adoration of the Magi
Justus of Ghent (Joos van Wassenhove)
1472–74
The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
1610
Le pitture e sculture di Brescia che sono esposte al pubblico con un' appendice di alcune private gallerie
Luigi Chizzola
1760
Edwin Davis French, A Memorial: His Life, His Art
Ira Hutchinson Brainerd
1908
Academie de l'espee; ou se domonstrent par reigles mathématiques sur le fondement d'un cercle mystérieux, la théorie et pratique des vrais . . .
Girard Thibault
1628
Guide to Chinese Painting, Second Series (Kanga shinan nihen)
Kawamura Bunpō
1811
Statuette of an Official Who is a Dwarf
ca. 1961–1917 BC
Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey showing the Progress of the Survey during the Year 1854
James McNeill Whistler
1854–55
Public School
Thomas Rowlandson
May 10, 1802
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam
Domenico Fetti
ca. 1619
The Tale of Genji Chapter Books: Chapters 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, 40, 41, and 54
Isome Tsuna
late 17th century
A Stallion
Habiballah of Sava
ca. 1601–6
Relief Depicting Personified Estates from the Tomb of Akhtihotep
ca. 2575–2551 B.C.
Tale of Genji Chapter Books: Chapter 36, “The Oak Tree” (Kashiwagi)
Tosa Mitsuyoshi
early 17th century
Tale of Genji Chapter Books: Chapter 10, “A Branch of Sacred Evergreen” (Sakaki)
Tosa Mitsuyoshi
early 17th century
The Lovers
Riza-yi 'Abbasi
dated 1039 AH/1630 CE
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava
ca. 1600
How to Live in a Flat
Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne
[1936]
How to Make a Garden Grow
Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne
[1938]
How to Run a Communal Home
Cecil Hunt
[1943]
How to be a Perfect Husband
Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne
[1937]
Let's Laugh!: A Book of Humorous Inventions
Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne
[1939]
How To Be A Motorist
Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne
[1939]
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun
ca. 1660
Scenes Illustrating Poems from The Tale of Genji (Hakubyō Genji monogatari emaki), Scrolls 3 and 4
Kaoku Gyokuei
1554
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
Claude Monet
1899
Power Figure (Nkisi)
Songue peoples (Eki or Ilande group)
19th - early 20th century (before 1926)
“The Safflower” (Suetsumuhana), from the Phantom Genji Scrolls (Maboroshi no Genji monogatari emaki), Scroll 3
Japan
mid-17th century
“Broom Cypress” (Hahakigi), from the Phantom Genji Scrolls (Maboroshi no Genji monogatari emaki)
Japan
mid-17th century
"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Maulana Azhar
ca. 1430