Illustration Patrimoine

Illustration Patrimoine

FRANCE. YVELINES (78). VERSAILLES. CASTLE OF VERSAILLES. QUEEN'S APARTMENT. THE QUEEN'S ROOM. BUST OF QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE (BY FELIX LECOMTE, 1783) Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

Museum finds Yosa Buson painting missing since 1922

Museum finds Yosa Buson painting missing since 1922

OTSU, Japan - A museum in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, shows a long-missing painting by Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson (1716-1783) to the press on Sept. 24, 2014. The whereabouts of the painting, currently owned by a company in Singapore, had been unknown for 92 years.

Portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck

Portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck

Undated head and shoulders mezzoprint portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck by Isaac Whood. Pinchbeck (c.1670 - November 18, 1732) was a London clockmaker and maker of musical Automata. He was born in Clerkenwell but worked in Fleet Street. Probably his name was derived from Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. In the 1700s he invented the alloy Pinchbeck a cheap substitute for gold. He made an exquisite musical clock, worth about 500, for Louis XIV, and a fine organ for the Great Mogul, valued at 300. His eldest son, also named Christopher (1710 - 1783) became King's Clockmaker by appointment to George III: among his timepieces is an important astronomical clock made for the King, now in Buckingham Palace. HPG/8/1/1 (ix) Date: late 18th century

Georgiana, 6th Countess of Carlisle

Georgiana, 6th Countess of Carlisle

Portrait of Georgiana, 6th Countess of Carlisle (1783 - 1858). Painting by Robert Thorburn Date: circa 1850

Mt. Asama from Nakasendo Karuisawa

Mt. Asama from Nakasendo Karuisawa

A view of the Mt. Asama from Karuizawa coming down west from Sakamoto juku on the Nakasendo over the Usui Range. Karuizawa prospered with its restaurants, but it was devastated in the explosion of Mt. Asama in 1783. As the new Usui Range road opens in the Meiji era, the village declines.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagano, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number38‐52‐0]

Museum finds Yosa Buson painting missing since 1922

Museum finds Yosa Buson painting missing since 1922

OTSU, Japan - A museum in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, shows a long-missing painting by Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson (1716-1783) to the press on Sept. 24, 2014. The whereabouts of the painting, currently owned by a company in Singapore, had been unknown for 92 years. (Kyodo)