#the walters art museum

[baebeylik]

Finger Ring With Frog. Egyptian. 1550-1295 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty)

The Walters Art Museum.

[tiny-librarian]

This intaglio shows the head of Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra II, in profile to the left.

[arthistoryanimalia]

More #WorldFrogDay accessories: 🐸💍

Two carnelian frog rings from New Kingdom Egypt, with a stylized Hathor head incised on bottom of each. (In later dynasties, Hathor assumed Heqet's role as a goddess of fertility and childbirth.)

1. Finger Ring with Frog Egyptian, c. 1550-1295 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty) gold, carnelian H: 15/16 x W: 13/16 x D: 1/4 in. (2.4 x 2 x 0.6 cm); Bezel H: 1/4 x W: 3/8 x D: 1/4 in. (0.6 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm); Inner Diam: 7/16 in. (1.05 cm) "A tiny carnelian frog with incised details serves as a swiveling bezel for a typical Egyptian seal ring. Carved into the base is a stylized head of a goddess, possibly Hathor." The Walters Art Museum

2. Finger Ring with a Frog Egyptian, 1550-1279 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th-early 19th dynasty) carnelian, gold lining H: 15/16 x W: 13/16 x D: 1/4 in. (2.4 x 2 x 0.7 cm); Bezel W: 1/16 in. (0.17 cm); Inner Diam.: 5/16 in. (0.83 cm); Outer Diam.: 1/2 in. (1.34 cm) "This finger ring displays the small figure of a frog squatting on top of the bezel. The frog is well carved with incised details. The stylized head of Hathor is incised on the bottom of the bezel. The gold lining is probably modern. The image of a frog symbolizes fecundity and fertility, and rings with frog figures were worn by women particularly during the New Kingdom." The Walters Art Museum

[heliosmou]

The Walters Art Museum

Tried to publish photo I took, but WP wouldn’t publish it. They said I had reached my quota for images. Now I don’t know what that means exactly. Does this refer to cumulative data rom the day I joined WP in 2009? Does this mean WP considers me a freeloader? Or because those poor souls, like artists, don’t have the resources to help WP promote its monetization policies are a drag on WP? Is this…

[lionofchaeronea]

Swan, Rush, and Iris (design for a dado wallpaper), Walter Crane, 1875

[pointandshooter]

Hackerman House, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

photo: David Castenson

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Thomas Couture (1815-1879) "Daydreams" (1859) Oil on canvas Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

[classicalcanvas]

Title: The Moat and Bishop's Palace, Wells Cathedral

Artist: Walter Crane

Date: 1893

Style: Neo-Romanticism

Genre: Landscape

[neptunesdesire]

Details: La belle Dame Sans Merci, Walter T. Crane - 1865

[internationalemeteorologie]

Walter Gramatté

Still life with night city view. 1922-23 

[oncanvas]

Fornance Street, Walter Stuempfig, 1956

Oil on linen 26 x 30 ¼ in. (66 x 76.8 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

[baebeylik]

Ciborium Fragment. Langobardic. 8th to 9th Century CE.

The Walters Art Museum.

[lexumpysfunland]

I managed to recover a file about Curator! Though of course it has been tempered with by Walter...

Here it is nonetheless

I'm sure she left and was just denied access to this parable again... Probably for the best.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday:

Walter von Nessen (American, born Germany, 1889-1943)

Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc., Waterbury, CT

Cat Bookends, 1930-5

Copper-plated alloy, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (18.8 x 11.5 x 6.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum 1994.156.4,5:

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2265

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2285

[7pleiades7]

Pandora (1873), (detail), by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889), oil on canvas, 70.2 × 49.2 cm, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

[lionofchaeronea]

Among the Old Poets, Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909)