Old Houses, Greenock

On arriving in Boston in 1828, the English artist Robert Salmon became the most prestigious sea painter and exerted considerable influence on the American Luminists, particularly F...

This image has been taken from scan 000066 from "History of the Town of Greenock. [With plates.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created ...

Though born in Paris, Paul Gauguin spent his formative years in Peru. His father having died while the family was en route, Paul and his sister Marie lived with their mother in t...

This figure belonged to the ceremonial house of the Gaikorobi village, in the region of the Sepik River to the east of the Chambri lakes, on the island of New Guinea. The ceremonia...

Etching of village houses in West Bengal by John Edmund Elliot (1788-1862) dated sometime between 1807 and 1825. Much of India's populace is rural and the simple vernacular buildin...