Seated Collection (page 20)

Gypsies, 1862. Creator: Karl Fiale
Gypsies, 1862. Sheet 21 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1. Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie

Portrait of three high school students, 1900. Creator: PA Milevskii
Portrait of three high school students, 1900. This collection contains 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Wife of a Court Official. Irkutsk, 1904. Creator: Boris Vasilievich Smirnov
Wife of a Court Official. Irkutsk, 1904. Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881-1954) was a Russian artist who in 1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across Siberia

Great-grandfather, grandfather, grandson and great-grandchildren, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Great-grandfather, grandfather, grandson and great-grandchildren, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Cossack Village Girls. Kokchetavskii Uezd, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossack Village Girls. Kokchetavskii Uezd, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Cossack Women of Presnogor'kovsk Village, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossack Women of Presnogor'kovsk Village, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Good Stab, 1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Good Stab, 1910. Photograph shows Good Stab, with braided hair, wearing traditional clothing, sitting in grassy area

Students of Koturkul'sk School, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Students of Koturkul'sk School, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Cossacks - Women, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossacks - Women, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

Dusty Dress, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Dusty Dress, c1910. Kalispel Indian woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated, wrapped braids, white stripes painted on hair, shell disk earrings

Stanitsa court, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Stanitsa court, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

Explorer's Camp in the Taiga, 1909. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Explorer's Camp in the Taiga, 1909. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Cossack Girls, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossack Girls, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

Bull Shoe's children, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Bull Shoe's children, c1910. Two girls, full-length, seated, facing front, with loose hair, one wearing buckskin dress decorated with elks teeth, one wearing beaded cloth dress

Old Cossacks, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Old Cossacks, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

On Service, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
On Service, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

On a Break, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
On a Break, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

At Work, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
At Work, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories, culture

Old Man, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Old Man, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories, culture

Orchestra, Created in 1903, of the Volunteer Fire Association, early 20th century. Creator: Unknown
Orchestra, Created in 1903, of the Volunteer Fire Association, early 20th century. Relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth

Fire Chief A. F. Domishkevich Sitting at a Table Set for a Holiday Together with... early 20th cent Creator: Unknown
Fire Chief A. F. Domishkevich Sitting at a Table Set for a Holiday Together with Five Women and Two Men, early 20th century

Young People, Presumably the Sons of Fire Chief A.F. Domishkevich, early 20th century. Creator: Unknown
Young People, Presumably the Sons of Fire Chief A.F. Domishkevich, early 20th century. Relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth

Chinese merchants in Maimachen, 1900. Creator: Nikolai Nikolaevich Petrov
Chinese merchants in Maimachen, 1900. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist

Road Surveying Party in the Tomsk Region, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
Road Surveying Party in the Tomsk Region, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Two Asian men, 1900. Creator: Nikolai Nikolaevich Petrov
Two Asian men, 1900. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist and social

Ossur. A Todzhin Man, 32 Years Old. Ii River, 1897. Creator: Unknown
Ossur. A Todzhin Man, 32 Years Old. Ii River, 1897. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P. E)

Chukchi, Violinist, 1899. Creator: Unknown
Chukchi, , Violinist, 1899. This collection consists of diverse materials belonging to Grigorii Nikolaevich Potanin (1835-1920) and Nikolai Mikhailovich Iadrintsev (1842-94)

The Kachins Young Foreigner with a Musical Instrument Called a "Komuz", 1894. Creator: Unknown
The Kachins Young Foreigner with a Musical Instrument Called a "Komuz", 1894. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P. E)

Interior of a clochan hut (Sitka island, north coast of America), 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of

Deer Tungus from the Eastern Shore of Central Sakhalin, 1880-1899. Creator: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
Deer Tungus from the Eastern Shore of Central Sakhalin, 1880-1899. From an album created on Sakhalin Island in the 1890s. Sakhalin was used by imperial Russia as a penal colony

Russian Traders in Uriankhai Territory. Twelve-Year-Old Son of the Cossack Sadovskii... 1897. Creator: Unknown
Russian Traders in Uriankhai Territory. Twelve-Year-Old Son of the Cossack Sadovskii and a Worker/Peasant, 1897. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye

Exiled Convicts Having Lunch near Their Huts during Work in the Taiga, 1880-1899. From an album created on Sakhalin Island in the 1890s

Russian Traders in Uriankhai Territory. The Cossack S. F. Skobeev with Family (Son and Wife), 1897. Creator: Unknown
Russian Traders in Uriankhai Territory. The Cossack S. F. Skobeev with Family (Son and Wife), 1897. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P)

A Kachin Individual (over 30 Years Old). Tanzybaev with Children. Village of Ust'-Abakan, 1894. Creator: Unknown
A Kachin Individual (over 30 Years Old). Tanzybaev with Children. Village of Ust'-Abakan, 1894. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P)

View Taken in the Woods, Bonin Islands, 19th century. Creators: Alexander Postels, Godefroy Engelmann
View Taken in the Woods, Bonin Islands, 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned

Two young women pose in folk costumes, with dotted headdresses, 1886-1890. Creator: Helene Edlund
Two young women pose in folk costumes, with dotted headdresses, 1886-1890

Two Sami men, 1890-1900. Creator: Helene Edlund
Two Sami men, 1890-1900. Studio portrait, hand-coloured

Portrait of the composer Elfrida Andrée at the age of 22, 1863. Creator: Salomon August Andree
Portrait of the composer Elfrida Andree at the age of 22, 1863

Boy sits and reads in a book, 1860-1890. Creator: Carl Gustaf Hellqvist
Boy sits and reads in a book, 1860-1890

Crown Prince Karl, later King Karl XV, 1849. Creator: Fritz von Dardel
Crown Prince Karl, later King Karl XV, 1849

"Forward march, go on. By Robson". (c1850s). Creator: Fritz von Dardel. "Forward march, go
"Forward march, go on. By Robson". (c1850s)

The Dardel family in Saint-Blaise, Switzerland, July 1843. Creator: Fritz von Dardel
The Dardel family in Saint-Blaise, Switzerland, July 1843

Punishment Cell, 1891. Creator: Aleksei Kuznetsov
Punishment Cell, 1891. One of 74 views taken in July 1891 and contained in the albumTipy i vidy Nerchinskoi katorgi (Views and inhabitants of Nerchinsk hard labor camps)

Ossur. A Todzhin Man, 32 Years Old. Ii River, 1897. Creator: Unknown
Ossur. A Todzhin Man, 32 Years Old. Ii River, 1897. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P. E)

A young woman poses in a folk costume, 1890-1920. Creator: Helene Edlund
A young woman poses in a folk costume, 1890-1920

Woman wearing Sami folk costume, Inga Åren, Frostviken, Lapland, 1890-1900. Creator: Helene Edlund
Woman wearing Sami folk costume, Inga...ren, Frostviken, Lapland, 1890-1900. Studio portrait

Kachin Adolescents Domozhakov District, 1894. Creator: Unknown
Kachin Adolescents Domozhakov District, 1894. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P. E)

The caloches inhabitants of Sitka Island (northwest coast of America), 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of

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"Seated: A Captivating Collection of Moments" In the enchanting world of art, Gypsy Splendour by Laura Knight transports us to a vibrant scene where dancers are gracefully seated, their movements frozen in time. Meanwhile, Charles Dickens Dream, an unfinished masterpiece by Robert William Buss, invites us into the imaginative realm of one of England's greatest novelists. From the silver screen comes Laurel and Hardy, their comedic genius captured even when they are simply seated. In John William Waterhouse's I am half sick of shadows, we witness a contemplative moment as a woman sits amidst ethereal surroundings. History unfolds before our eyes with the powerful image of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc committing self-immolation in protest against injustice. Malcolm Browne's photograph captures his stoic determination while seated at an intersection in Saigon. George Orwell takes center stage as he broadcasts over the BBC during World War II - his words resonating from his seat behind a microphone. And who could forget Eleanor Rigby immortalized in Tommy Steele's statue inspired by The Beatles' haunting song? Roy Rogers epitomizes American cowboy culture as he is photographed alongside his loyal horse Trigger - both comfortably seated together. Rosa Parks makes her indelible mark on civil rights history by defiantly occupying a bus seat reserved for whites only. Traveling back centuries to Lalibela's St. Marys Church frescoes, we marvel at early 12th-century artwork depicting religious figures serenely seated amid intricate designs. Stanhope A Forbes' Christmas Eve painting evokes nostalgia and warmth as families gather around tables adorned with festive decorations. Finally, J. C Leyendecker's Arrow Shirt Collar ad from 1914 showcases elegance and sophistication through its depiction of a well-dressed gentleman confidently seated while wearing this fashionable accessory. Each image tells its own story - capturing moments that range from profound to whimsical; reminding us that sometimes it is in the act of being seated that we find the most captivating narratives.