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    Friday, January 3rd, 2014
    2:46 pm
    Sibyl Drawn by: Anonymous (Upper Rhineland) Date: 1440-1450...


    Sibyl

    Drawn by: Anonymous (Upper Rhineland)

    Date: 1440-1450 (circa)

    The British Museum

    12:55 pm
    Calcite statue of a standing woman Sabaean Date: 1stC-2ndC Made...




    Calcite statue of a standing woman

    Sabaean

    Date: 1stC-2ndC

    Made in: Yemen

    The British Museum

    9:13 am
    Calcite-alabaster statue of a seated woman with braided hair...


    Calcite-alabaster statue of a seated woman with braided hair extending to the small of the back and wearing full length garment; carved from calcite with polished surfaces

    Sabaean

    1stC BC-2ndC (?)

    Made in: Yemen

    The British Museum

    7:23 am
    Sculpted head of a man; calcite; inlaid shell eyes highlighted...


    Sculpted head of a man; calcite; inlaid shell eyes highlighted with blue glass. Pupils separately inlaid but missing their inlays; recessed eyebrows with traces of light turquoise glass coloured with cobalt and set in plain white plaster; moustache originally inlaid.

    Qatabanian

    Date: 1stC BC-1stC

    The British Museum

    Made in: Yemen

    11:04 am
    .David and Bath-sheba. 1784 (circa) Print made by:...


    .David and Bath-sheba.

        • 1784 (circa)
        • Print made by: Anonymous

        • Published by: Carington Bowles

      • After: Carlo Maratti biography
      • .Date1784 (circa)
      • The British Museum
    5:32 am
    Gold fitting in the form of a bull’s head Ancient South...


    Gold fitting in the form of a bull’s head

    Ancient South Arabian

    Made in Yemen

    The British Museum

    3:41 am
    Low-tin bronze statuette of an ass; lost-wax cast; inscription...


    Low-tin bronze statuette of an ass; lost-wax cast; inscription of four lines in South Arabian script on either side; minor blow-holes arising from the casting.

    Ancient South Arabian

    Date: 2ndC

    Made in: Yemen

    The British Museum

    1:51 am
    Rectangular, white limestone stela with a face carved in low...


    Rectangular, white limestone stela with a face carved in low relief within a coarsely, chiselled rectangular recess on one side and a line of South Arabian (Sabaean) inscription above human face, along top edge of same side; degraded chequer pattern in dull red brown paint over the flat face of the stela below the portrait.

    Ancient South Arabian

    The British Museum

    Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
    8:19 pm
    The Large Power of Women Series The Mouth of Truth; a woman...


    The Large Power of Women Series

    The Mouth of Truth; a woman kneels before the Emperor of Rome on his throne at r; her left hand is inside the mouth of a statue of a lion next to the Emperor and her right is raised before her; a band of onlookers watch from behind. c.1514 Woodcut

    Print made by: Lucas van Leyden

    Date: 1514 (circa)

    The British Museum

    10:10 pm
    Head set in plaster Calcite-alabaster, plaster Ancient South...


    Head set in plaster

    Calcite-alabaster, plaster

    Ancient South Arabian

    Possibly 1st century BC - 1st century AD

    The British Museum

    4:37 pm
    Painted Limoges enamel salt-cellar; copper, hexagonal; decorated...




    Painted Limoges enamel salt-cellar; copper, hexagonal; decorated with the Follies of wise men;

    Attributed to: Pierre Reymond.

    Date: 1542

    The British Museum

    6:27 pm
    David and Bath-Sheba Bathsheba reclining at the edge of her bath...


    David and Bath-Sheba

    Bathsheba reclining at the edge of her bath on a palace terrace, while a maid washes her foot, with King David leaning from a balcony in the background to left; after De Troy; in a foliate border; illustration to Rider’s ‘Christian family’s Bible’ (1763-67).

    Etching and engraving

    .Print made by: Charles Grignion

    After: Jean François de Troy.

    Date: 1763-1767 (circa)

    The British Museum

    12:55 pm
    Study of a musician for the painting ‘The Queen of...


    Study of a musician for the painting ‘The Queen of Sheba’s Visit to King Solomon’  heightened with white, on red-brown paper

    Drawn by: Edward John Poynter

    Date: 1891 (circa)

    The British Museum

    2:46 pm
    Edward John Poynter (England 20 Mar 1836 – 26 Jul...


    Edward John Poynter

    (England 20 Mar 1836 – 26 Jul 1919)

    Title

    Study for the Queen of Sheba

    Year

    circa 1889

    The Art Gallery of New South Wales

    11:05 am
    Abelae Mulier Title (series) Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris...


    Abelae Mulier

    Title (series) Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti (The Celebrated Women of the Old Testament)

    Plate 15: The wise woman of Abel Beth-Maachab

    Print made by: Jan Collaert II

    Published by: Philips Galle

    After: After: Maarten de Vos

    Date: 1590-1595 (c.)

    The British Museum

    7:23 am
    Solomon and the Queen of Sheba Published by: Bowles &...


    Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

    Published by: Bowles & Carver

    Hand-coloured mezzotint, 1795

    The British Museum

    9:14 am
    Study of an male attendant related to the painting ‘The...


    Study of an male attendant related to the painting ‘The Queen of Sheba’s Visit to King Solomon’

    Drawn by: Edward John Poynter

    1891 (circa)

    The British Museum

    3:41 am
    Print; “The Queen of Sheba’s Visit to...


    Print; “The Queen of Sheba’s Visit to Solomon”, unsigned undated colour engraving for a ‘Pictorial History of the Bible’, 1896

    The British Museum

    5:32 am
    Photograph (black and white); a woman, Sheba, and her husband...


    Photograph (black and white); a woman, Sheba, and her husband posing for a portrait against a neutral backdrop; she is standing and wears a dress made of patterned cloth; he is sitting and wears a tailored suit jacket and patterned cloth wrap around his waist; Tutuila (?), American Samoa. 
    Gelatin silver print

    Late 19th Century

    The British Museum

    1:51 am
    The Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon; kneeling at the bottom...


    The Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon; kneeling at the bottom of the steps leading to Solomon’s throne at right; her entourage following with gifts at left; from the ‘Icones Biblicae’, published by Merian in Frankfurt before 1630. c.1625-30

    Etching

    Print made by: Matthäus Merian Published by: Matthäus Merian

    .Date: 1625-1630

    The British Museum

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