Oriental Gallery

Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016/4499

Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony. This lantern slide, by US explorer and survey photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), was obtained for the World's Transportation Commission, a worldwide survey carried out for the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, USA. The lantern slides in this collection were hand-coloured with dyes and paints. Here, the areas at far right and left have not been coloured

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Exotic dancer by Rene Bull

A stylised illustration by Rene Bull (1872-1942) showing a scantily clad exotic dancer in a beautiful garden hanging with fruits. Bull had travelled to the Middle East and the influence of Oriental art and Arabian customs is expressed here

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1872, 1942, Arabian, Art, Beautiful, Bull, C1915, Clad, Customs, Dancer, East, Exotic, Expressed, Fruits, Garden, Hanging, Historical, History, Illustration, Influence, Middle, Oriental, Rene, Scantily, Showing, Stylised, Travelled

Game of Chess, 1555

XAM71632 Game of Chess, 1555 by Anguissola, Sofonisba (c.1532-1625); 72x97 cm; Museum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland; (add.info.: Anguisciola, Sofonisba (1527-1625): the artist's sisters Lucia, Europa and Minerva playing chess;); Italian, out of copyright

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Anguissola, Carpet, Family Group, Oriental, Profile, Renaissance, Sister