Half of a Prayer Bead with Jesus Carrying the Cross

Henri-Edmond Cross was born on May 20, 1856 in Douai, a small town close to the Belgian border in northern France. He spent his youth in Lille and there, at the age of ten, took dr...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...

Breechcloth; probably Yanktonai; 1860-1870Wool, porcupine quills, sinew, metal, horsehair, pigments; 117.5 x 28.5 cm.\RMV 710-9; Herman F.C. ten Kate collection; purchased from tra...

Pipe bag; Lakota; ca. 1870-1880 \nHide, glass beads, porcupine quills, pigments; l. 40 cm. (incl. fringe); w. 13 cm.\nRMV 3158-9; purchased from art dealer Leendert Van Lier, Amste...

Watercolour of a 'mani' or Tibetan prayer-wheel, at Bodnath Temple in Nepal, by Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-1871), dated November 1854. The Bodnath stupa is one of the largest in ...