Two miniatures, on parchment, both fragments of a Book of Hours, depicting events in the Passion of Christ, both in color with gold and burnished gold. The first depicts the Flagellation of Christ within a stylized architectural frame. The second depicts the Carrying of the Cross in a stylized landscape which includes two other crosses erected against a gold diapered background
Description:
Attributed to the workshop of Jacquemart de Hesdin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacquemart, de Hesdin, active 1380-1411. and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN 2003 Folio 88 16: Cropped stamp: Rooke & Cos. From the collection of Paul Mellon., For piano., and Lithograph on t.p. of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the park and City Hall, New York. Signed: J. Brandard.
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 corner, a colonial port scene in the lower left corner, and cherubs holding a British crest and flag at the top. Corn and palm trees form the side borders
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 Treaty of Paris., No linguistic content., Title devised by cataloger., and Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Title supplied by cataloger., An optical box (or boîte d'optique) for viewing peepshows; accompanied by 10 peepshows displaying a variety of scenes., Peepshows possibly engraved and printed by Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg., To use the box, the viewer looked through the magnifying lens and saw, reflected in a mirror placed at a 45-degree angle, a three-dimensional scene formed from a series of six layered images., Each of the 10 accompanying peepshow sets contains six views; all of the views are printed on stiff paper, are hand colored and have been cut out except for the sixth which forms the background and has the number 6 printed at the bottom. In some cases view 5 also has the number printed at the bottom., Each peepshow is housed in an individual packet of paper with a manuscript title in Dutch; the packets have been hand numbered nos. 1-9 and no. 11 and, on the verso of each view, the set number and the view number have been added in ms., and Within the background view of set no. 6, the letter H is printed in the lower left corner.