Collections: Items Tagged "colonial"

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On View: Head from a Female Sphinx

This head depicts an ancient Egyptian princess, daughter of King Amenemhat II, and originally had a lion’s body. Over the centuries, i...

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.

    On View: Hairpin

    Ivory’s value results from its scarcity, as well as its association with the elephant, a symbol of power and strength. Ivory bracelets...

     

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    Found 39 Items Tagged "colonial"


    Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez CervantesDon José María Gómez de Cervantes y Altamirano de Velasco, Count of Santiago de CalimayaMrs. Sylvester (Abigail Pickman) GardinerDon Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-VillamilOur Lady of Cocharcas Under the BaldachinDon Juan Xavier Joachín Gutiérrez Altamirano Velasco, Count of Santiago de CalimayaDeborah HallMrs. John Haskins (née Hannah Upham)Portrait of a Woman (possibly Mrs. James [Hester Stanton Plaisted] Gooch)George WashingtonSamuel Joness SonPlatter (James Blaine & John Logan)Saint John of GodDoña Josefa de la Cotera y Calvo de la PuertaKoh-i-noorPortrait of Doña María Josefa Romero de Terreros y Gómez de ParadaMrs. Elizabeth Smith (née Elizabeth Chew)Our Lady of Pomata
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    Jan Martense Schenck House, 1676 (long-term installation).
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