Collections: Items Tagged "ancient Egypt"

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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

 

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Found 40 Items Tagged "ancient Egypt"

Seated Statue of the Superintendent of the Granary IrukaptahSwamp SceneRelief of Montuhotep IIIDetail of a Row of ForeignersElaborately Painted Shroud of Neferhotep, Son of HerrotiouStela of Djefi and Ankh[en]es-itesTemple of Khonsu at KarnakStatuette of the Lady Mi StandingStela of AmenemhatFragmentary Slab, "Riverside Scene"Relief with Dieties and High PriestessCoffin for a ShabtyHeadrest of ShemaiShabty of AmunemhatNubian ComradesBlock Statue of AySarcophagus with Separate CoverShabty of Nesi-ta-nebet-Isheru, Daughter of Pinedjem II
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