Art Resource | Fine Art Stock Licensing Details A silk, wool and linen embroidered panel of a man and woman in a garden surrounded by symbols, peacock, for pride, and cockatrice symbolising lust. Between the couple is the fountain of spirituality. Location: Museum of London, London, Great Britain Photo Credit: Museum of London / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY Image Reference: Image size: 4200 X 3235 px Keywords An adorned print: Print culture, female leisure and the dissemination of fashion in France and England, around 1660-1779 Alice Dolan RCA/V&A MA in History of Design Abstract Marie-Thérèse Perdou de Subligny (1666-1735) was one of the first opera dancers, with a career that began in around 1688. Her presentation in an adorned engraved print (fig.1) provides an ideal platform for the discussion of cultural life between 1660 and 1779, bringing together diverse issues such as the production and consumption of French prints, opera, celebrity, the dissemination of fashion and female domestic craft. This paper sets the Subligny print in its cultural contexts, and rejects the notion that decorated engravings such as this one, disseminated contemporary fashions. An adorned print of Marie-Thérèse Perdou de Subligny (1666-1735) Figure 1 - Engraving, Mademoiselle Subligny dansant a l’Opera, Jean Mariette (publisher), about 1688-1709, hand coloured with applied silks and bobbin lace. Figure 2 - Engraving, Mademoiselle Subligny Dansant a l’Opera, Jean Mariette (publisher), Paris, about 1688-1709.
PHOTOMUSE Casket Object Type Caskets like this were used by girls in the 17th century for storing small personal possessions. The caskets were fitted inside with a variety of compartments, suitable for keeping jewellery, cosmetics, writing equipment and letters, needlework tools, tiny toys or keepsakes. They often had mirrors set into the lids, for dressing, and sometimes had secret drawers for particularly precious possessions. This casket has 11 secret drawers. Ownership & Use The panels would have been worked by a young girl, aged about 11 or 12. A girl's needlework education began with embroidered samplers and the decoration of smaller objects like pin cushions. Materials & Making This casket has the extremely rare feature of sheets of mica, a shiny transparent mineral that can be easily split. Physical description Wooden needlework casket covered with embroidered silk panels. Place of Origin England, Britain (made) Date 1650-1680 (made) Artist/maker unknown (production) Materials and Techniques Dimensions
Cesare Ripa's Iconologia Word and Image In recent years, scholars in many disciplines have recognized that the literally thousands of engravings, wood blocks, and etchings in emblem books constitute an unparalleled source not only for the study of daily life of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries but also for extraordinary insights into what the intellectuals of the times viewed as a necessary adjunct to heraldry, social life, politics, philosophy, and moral behavior. The English emblem books scanned for this project are cultural artifacts frequently used in the analysis of reading practices, printing history, Elizabethan popular culture, the use of allegory, and the relationship of word to image. An emblem combines a picture and text for the striking presentation of a message.
Stock Photography Agency, Travel Stock Photos, Editorial Photographs, Odyssey Photo Image Library British Printed Images to 1700: Home Search object details Registration numbers The most common type of Museum number begins with the year of acquisition. The database standardises these numbers in the form, for example: 1887,0708.2427 (year: comma: block of four numbers - usually representing a month and day: full-stop and final number). In some of these cases a prefix has been added before a number (e.g. If the number you are entering has come from an old catalogue it could appear in the form 1887-7-8-2427. In the case of some two-dimensional works from Asia and the Middle East a full stop may need to be inserted into the final number. The second most common type of Museum number takes the form of one or two letters followed by two numbers. There are also some special cases including, for example, S.2534 (Sheepshanks collection, in which case the number will fall between 1 and 8000). BM or 'Big' numbers These are used in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan and the Department of the Middle East and are just a sequence of numbers.
epa european pressphoto agency | global photo coverage from breaking news, politics, sports, and business, to arts, culture and entertainment Casket Sewing was an important skill for a woman in the 17th century and was taught to girls of all classes from an early age. Plain sewing - hemming and seaming - was of particular value for the production of underclothes and basic household linens. Only a privileged few, however, were able to afford the time and materials for embroidery. There appear to have been a number of accepted markers in the development of a competent needlewoman. First a band sampler was completed, illustrating the range of stitches and techniques that the girl had mastered. Then these skills were developed by sewing a more complex and demanding cut-work sampler. It is probable that each individual figure or element was sewn independently and then applied to the delicate white satin background. Different scenes, almost certainly derived from contemporary prints, adorn each of the five visible surfaces of the casket. Physical description Place of Origin England, Britain (made) Date 1678 (made) Artist/maker Dimensions
Search object details Registration numbers The most common type of Museum number begins with the year of acquisition. The database standardises these numbers in the form, for example: 1887,0708.2427 (year: comma: block of four numbers - usually representing a month and day: full-stop and final number). The final number can be of any length and may be followed by another full-stop and a sub-number. In some of these cases a prefix has been added before a number (e.g. If the number you are entering has come from an old catalogue it could appear in the form 1887-7-8-2427. In the case of some two-dimensional works from Asia and the Middle East a full stop may need to be inserted into the final number. The second most common type of Museum number takes the form of one or two letters followed by two numbers. There are also some special cases including, for example, S.2534 (Sheepshanks collection, in which case the number will fall between 1 and 8000). BM or 'Big' numbers Other numbering systems