Red Letter Days
Manuscripts where red ink leads — scarlet capitals, ruled lines and fiery flourishes.
Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco · ca. 1610
Saint Andrew
Simone Martini · ca. 1326
Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Saint Matthew and the Angel
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo
Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · ca. 1490–94
Portrait of a Man
Moretto da Brescia · ca. 1520–25
Isabella Wolff
Thomas Lawrence · 1803–15
Saints Bartholomew and Simon
Master of Saint Francis · 1266–75
Madonna and Child with Saints
Ludovico Carracci · 1607
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Jan Sanders van Hemessen
Allegory of Vigilance
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1772
A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study
Charles James Fox · Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford · The Right Honorable Edmund Burke · George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · William Humphrey · Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784
The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris
Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt · Thomas Rowlandson · Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · December 4, 1813
Saint Matthias
Simone Martini · ca. 1317–19
Untitled
Sharaku · 1794
The thundering skeleton of the modern bells
José Guadalupe Posada · 1905
97% in your colours
Broadside (recto) the legitimate verses of Lino Zamora brought from Real de Zacatecas (image of toreador and bull by Manilla) and a funeral scene on verso possibly by Posada
José Guadalupe Posada · Manuel Manilla · Antonio Vanegas Arroyo · 1902 (published)
見立多以尽 - 洋行がしたい · Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai zukushi-yōkō ga shitai)
Yoshitoshi · January, 1878
The Political Death and Last Will and Testament of Johnny Mac-Cree
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville · Thomas Trotter · Thomas Rowlandson · William Pitt · April 28, 1805
Grand Course au Clocher Académique, Pl. 2
J. J. Grandville · Aubert et Cie · 1844
David
Lorenzo Monaco · ca. 1408–10
Moses
Lorenzo Monaco · ca. 1408–10
Noah
Lorenzo Monaco · ca. 1408–10
The Cumaean Sibyl (after Michelangelo)
Michelangelo Buonarroti · Jean Robert Ango · 1767
Paul Before Felix
William Hogarth · c. 1751
Untitled
Nainsukh · ca. 1745–50
This is the House in Gloucester Place, Plate 2
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet · Thomas Rowlandson · Thomas Tegg · May 26, 1809
Cover and Text from "The Pencil of Nature," London, 1844
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1844
Study for a Composition
Piet Mondrian · 1940–41
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted
William Morris · 1896
Spread Three from Volume One of People of Japan in Light Verse (Kyōka)
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857
Spread Two from Volume Two of People of Japan in Light Verse (Kyōka)
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857
A Hard Passage, or Boney Playing Base on the Continent
Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · G. Sauley [Farnham] · Napoléon Bonaparte · September 24, 1808
Little Dance
Kurt Schwitters · 1920
Pachuquenian Calavera
José Guadalupe Posada · 1894
77% in your colours
Calaveras of Artisans
José Guadalupe Posada · n.d.
『妙法蓮華経』 「観世音菩薩普門品」 · “Universal Gateway,” Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra
Sugawara Mitsushige · dated 1257
Untitled
Kubo Shunman · 19th century
The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād · c. 1560
The Military Tales of Han and Chu: Fan Kuai of the Han
Utagawa Toyokuni III · c. late 1820s
The Young Eastern Woman
Friedrich von Amerling · 1838
Choir Stalls in a Spanish Cathedral
Henri Regnault · c. 1868
The Four Evangelists, within a Border of Flowers, Birds, and Insects
Giulio Clovio · 1572
Verses to the Pilot of Tonga
Charles Méryon · 1856
Solar Law
Charles Méryon · 1855
Untitled
Unidentified artist · late 17th–18th century
Untitled
Stipple Master · Jai Ram · ca. 1712
Untitled
Mahavihara Master · early 12th century
The Monks
François Marius Granet · c. 1802–30
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