Antwerp by James McBey https://www.nga.gov/artworks/71054-antwerp
lower right in brown ink: McBey Antwerp 22 May 1926; lower left verso by later hand
lower right in brown ink: McBey Antwerp 22 May 1926; lower left verso by later hand
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
She holds her left hand up to cup her opposite ear, with her elbow lifted as she
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Departure , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset . The lord of a great castle and his company leave for a quest in the bright light of an early spring morning.
He holds up one hand, palm out, toward the knights as he looks in their direction
to our right, and she looks down at a pale green-covered book held in her right hand
A print by Frank Hartley Anderson reminds chef Adrienne Cheatham of the church meals she grew up with—and of a recipe for buttered rolls.
(For hand mixing instructions, see step 4.)
skin and long brown hair looks at us as she braces a tall, wooden hoop with one hand
wall covering, seems the height of gentility. [1] A debonair young man, hat in hand
Sitting before a table in the recesses of his prison cell, Saint Paul has brought his hand
Shown from the thighs up, a woman faces our left in profile as she lifts up one hand
His right hand, closer to us, is planted palm out against his hip, and he holds a