Antique Poem

Content: Includes his collected poems, often noted as a "Third Edition" because some poems appeared in earlier works like Works in Verse and Prose (1818) and Album Verses.

The cylindrical iron body is cast to resemble a rugged rocky surface and decorated in high relief with a Rakan seated beneath pine branches on one side, with a four-line poem on the ...

Iroha Two six-panel folding screens (byôbu), featuring the famous Iroha poem by Kûkai (Kôbô Daishi, 774–835) written in the cursive Sôsho style.

At this time, Frankenstein was producing landscapes painted on seashells and, in the first several years of the 1880s, devoted considerable time to the authorship of poems, stories, ...

Subject Matter: The image depicts a "foppish" or cartoonish male figure with exaggerated features, often used to mock someone's appearance, intelligence, or social habits. Text: The ...

A finely detailed mezzotint by William Say (1768-1834) after Henry Thomson (1773-1843). A poem is inscribed beneath the image. The original painting was held in the collection of Sir...

The Publication: Launched in 1891 as a weekly illustrated supplement to the daily Gil Blas newspaper, it became immensely famous for combining short stories and poems by major litera...

The piece was sourced in Oxford, and during cleaning and polishing a charming discovery was made: a handwritten love letter, with a poem on the reverse, tucked beneath one of the dra...

The bottom right quadrant contains an old English poem referencing the founding of Oxford and the River Isis.

His collections—including Poèmes saturniens (1866), Fêtes galantes (1869), Romances sans paroles (1874), Sagesse (1880), and Amour (1888)—transformed French verse through their music...

Princeton now holds approximately two dozen Sommer works connected with Erdelac, including landscapes, portraits, animal subjects, and the still life associated with Hart Crane’s poe...

Our canvas depicts one of the legendary deities who inspired creative fervour and who, over the centuries, acquired a specific influence in the fields of art and knowledge: in this c...

Such works drew inspiration from celebrated anthologies including the Hyakunin Isshu ("One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each") and portraits of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, making them ...

This exceptional Royal Vienna cabinet plate presents the celebrated scene of Rinaldo and Armida from Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), one of the...

Quillard’s imagery thus resonates doubly, linking avian song to the luminous upper register of stringed instruments. Elsewhere in the poem, he invokes oboes and harps, extending this...

The work is signed in red the lower right corner, with several Chinese characters written in black that are typically the title of the work, if not a poem or some other inscription r...

In 1917 an edition of Henri Régnier's Poèmes was published with illustrations from Latouche's compositions.

The illustrious lady in question was married to Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio, and the sumptuous wedding, which took place in Parma in 1648, was celebrated in the poe...

This poem, a great work of medieval literature and considered the greatest work of literature composed in Italian, is a philosophical Christian vision of mankind’s eternal fate.

This work depicts the myth of Venus and Adonis, one of the most beloved mythological subjects in art, particularly during the Baroque period: drawn from the poem ‘Metamorphoses’ by t...

The inkwork in cursive calligraphy is a composed four-line poem dedicated to the "Four Gentlemen of Flora".

They have been mentioned in poems and literature since early times such as Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, a collection of myths compiled in 712), Manyōshū, (Collection of Ten Th...

Volume I: La Henriade, poem by Voltaire, including notes and followed by Essai sur la poésie épique.

The volume retains its original green cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration, featuring a striking albatross motif symbolic of the poem’s central narrative. The book was produc...

The poem draws heavily on imagery of the sun, dawn and the stream to represent innocence and transition.

It has appeared in many literary works and poems in the history of Japanese literature, including the classical ones such as Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, compiled in 712) and ...

Her gaze, directed outward, is tender, almost amorous, in keeping with the poetic nature of the figure, as Sappho is known for her celebrated love poems written on the island of Lesb...

His use of embossing reaches the limits of formal and luminous delicacy in his work, as seen in the book "Poem of Parmenides," which features a recurring and structural theme: a pref...

TITLE: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside with Poems and Ballads.

In the meantime he wrote a book of poems entitled Spezzature, with illustrations drawn by him.

A French 18 karat (18K) yellow gold and diamond love charm pendant with a rebus spelling out "Plus qu'hier, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a line tak...

Engravers surrounded their portraits with poems, allegorical elements, and symbols of the man’s greatness, as well as the rich imagery found in mourning art- the obelisk, urn, angels...

These are the most beautiful drawings, poems of light, of fine composition and execution."

The lid has a continuous soft-tone multicoloured hiramaki-e (low-relief lacquer design) depicting several picture books (e-hon), of which two lie open and show flowers accompanied by...

Rossetti wrote to him in 1847 praising one of his poems, the two became close friends and Scott contributed several poems to The Germ.

Utagawa Kunisada Chinese Woman and Butterflies, Surimono, 1820 Sheet size 20.6 x 18.2 cm Poems by Shinrintei Komori. Signed Gototei Kunisada ga Superbly printed metallic (silver and...

A French 18 karat (18K) yellow gold, diamond and ruby love charm pendant with a rebus spelling out "Plus qu'hier, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a li...

A French 18 karat (18K) yellow gold, diamond and ruby love charm pendant with a rebus spelling out "Plus qu'hier, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a li...

A French 18 karat (18K) yellow gold, diamond and ruby love charm pendant with a rebus spelling out "Plus qu'hier, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a li...

Isadora Duncan Drawings In 1927, Isadora Duncan echoed the lines of Walt Whitman in her essay I See America Dancing, writing, "When I read this poem of Whitman’s I Hear America Singi...

Meeker's suggestions included Longfellow's poem "Evangeline," the setting of which was the swamps of southern Louisiana.

In particular, the aki no nanakusa (seven grasses of autumn) theme dates to the eighth century poetry collection Manyōshū (Collection of Myriad Leaves) and has continued to be a favo...

(stamped to reverse) illustrated with a scene from Shakespeare’s 1593 poem ‘Venus and Adonis’. Inspired by Greek mythology, the poem tells the story of Venus, the Goddess of Love, ...

He possessed a refined aesthetic sense, was highly educated, and even left a collection of poems behind. Some of the architectural marvels attributed to his reign include the Temple ...

(stamped to reverse) illustrated with a scene from Shakespeare’s 1593 poem ‘Venus and Adonis’. Inspired by Greek mythology, the poem tells the story of Venus, the Goddess of Love, an...

Masaoka shiki wrote the haiku poem: "Sori-bashi, the wisteria are purple and carp red" Condition: Very good.

Signature and seal read: Sagawa Kakoku. Poem on upper right reads: Sounds of cicadas, in mountain valleys and the aroma of pine needles.

Signature and seal read: Sagawa Kakoku. Poem on upper left reads: Stormy valleys in high mountains with more snow to come.

The Dublin Independent stated "Some of Mr Rackham's pictures are pure poems — they set you dreaming". [Hamilton, James.

This rare depiction was most probably inspired by a painting by Angelika Kauffmann (1741 - 1807), who in turn illustrated the poem 'Love disarmed' by Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721) for ...

However, he was always an eminently rural god; In the cities the figure of him was often used for erotic or humorous representations, as is the case of the Priapeia, a collection of ...

This edition expanded the original collection by adding five new poems and lengthening six others. The book with brown leather spine and corners, marbleized red/pink boards, speckle...

A true Homeric poet in our time; ... Yes, your epic poem is a masterpiece; ... the perfume of your book will not evaporate in a thousand years."

One of the poems ends with the lines “but in the fellowship of death, we separate no more” and is signed “W.

Lampl named the company after the fictional, idyllic island of "Bimini" from a poem by Heinrich Heine, signifying eternal ecstasy and creative freedom.

Below the image appears a quotation from Palmer’s English version of the poem: “Tis gentle Phillis I love best of all, For when I left, some tears began to fall.”

Isadora Duncan Drawings In 1927, Isadora Duncan echoed the lines of Walt Whitman in her essay I See America Dancing, writing, "When I read this poem of Whitman’s I Hear America Singi...

This piece depicts a scene inspired by the poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, showcasing Native American figures in a natural setting.

Diameter: 55.3 cm Provenance: Private UK Collection Inscriptions The inscriptions include a verse from an Arabic poem and the name of the original owner: mimma ‘umila bi-rasm al-m...

Below the image appears a quotation from Palmer’s English version of the poem: “Tis gentle Phillis I love best of all, For when I left, some tears began to fall.”