TITLE OF WORK: Poster for the revue "Black Birds" by Lew Leslie at the Moulin Rouge music-hall, Paris
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
DATE: 1929
COMMENTS: "Black birds 28", directed by Lew Leslie; music by Jimmy Mac Hugh, texts by Dorothy Fields. Cast: The Berry Brothers, A?da Ward, Adela?de Hall, Ruth Johnson, Marjorie Hubbard, The Jazz Plantation Orch
TITLE OF WORK: Book cover with painted illustrations on both sides. Outside illustration. A man is shown embracing a woman on a cushion surrounded by attendants, musicians and dancers.
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, lacquered papier mâché, cardboard
DATE: 1815
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Outside. Book cover with painted illustrations on both sides. Outside illustration depicts a nighttime scene in a Zenana, or harem. A man is shown embracing a woman on a cushion surrounded by attendan
TITLE OF WORK: Column krater, 470-460 BC, red-figure terracotta vase
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured column krater vase
DATE: -465
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 39.3 cm height
COMMENTS: This vessel was for mixing wine with water. The huge lettering IMONO on the back is a "graffito" which may be an owner's name or may have had something to do with the merchandising of the pot. Side A:
TITLE OF WORK: The Italians' dance. - It's always the same ballet… - Yes, but it is another's cup of tea… (La danse aux Italiens. - C'est toujours le même ballet… - Oui, mais c'est une autre paire de manches…)
TITLE OF WORK: Entertainement at the marriage of Fatima Sultaneh, daughter of Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, with Ali Pasha Rholib the son Reschid Pasha to Baltaliman on August 10
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1854
DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul
TITLE OF WORK: Five linked sword dancers and a drummer
TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
DATE: 1540
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: A tapestru honouring Joao de Castro for his victory in Goa, 1538. Supposedly made by weavers in Brussels, on the order of the king of Portugal.
