Mansplaining in art
Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018, the word mansplaining refers to condescending and chauvinistic behaviour, often directed by men towards women, but the idea has been around for ages. We take a light-hearted look through the archives.
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Rotterdam artist Nicolaes Muys portrayed his brother Robert, an engraver, with his wife Maria in the year they were married. Maria plies needle and thread with a silver thimble. Robert is showing one of his own prints of a scene from a play performed in t…
Portret van een dame en een heer in een interieur. Met de linkerarm leunt zij op een tafeltje waarop een portefeuille ligt en houdt een getekend portret van een man in haar hand. De man staat achter haar, leunend op de stoel.
Men's dress Reform Party have reception in Regent's Park.x000D Clad in 'reformed' masculine costume guests attended a reception of the Men's Dress Reform at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London.x000D Photo shows, Mr Freder…
The portrait shows the iron-foundry proprietor and businessman John Jennings, his brother and sister-in-law. John Jennings is shown sitting at the front of the painting, proudly showing off his relations with a sweeping gesture. This group portrait invite…
Lettering: Turpe senilis amor. Cornelus Schut inventor. Lucas Vorstermans junior sculpsit.
Lettering: Co.5. Extravagancias de 1834. No.1. Pienclones en el teatro. Imposible es que veamos con estas pantallas. - Por eso es mejor que yo me duerma. Lith. de C.H. Bacle.
Lettering: Balloon making: Mr Coxwell's manufactory at Seaford. W.I.P.S. WBM.
Lettering: G.B.I. ; Vierge.
Lettering: Hands off priest! ... ; Tom Merry del. et lith.; A political cartoon showing a Roman Catholic priest who has tied a young woman called Erin (representing Ireland) with a rope and is admonishing her. "Hands Off Priest!"
Lettering: Tom Jones. Walker sculp. ; Stothard del.
Alexander Roslin had an outstanding international career as a portrait painter and is one of the most successful Swedish born artists ever. Roslin came to Paris in a time of transition between rococo and neo-classicism, and manoeuvred skilfully between th…
The world ' s largest frame aerial is the highest in England_x000D_ This frame aerial on Bush House , London , is not only believed to be the largest in the world but it is the highest in England . It enables enormous ranges to be accomplshed , a wire…
Watch me holding one!.x000D 2 1/2 year old body Guidahl is mascot of American Ryder Cup team. He's a golfer himself!.x000D Buddy Guldahl, 2 1/2-year-old son of Ralph Guldahl, American open champion, is the mascot of the American Ryder Cup golf team wh…
Lettering: Gunhilda, Empress of Germany, daughter of Canute, King of England, having been accused of adultery ... Eques. Andes. Cazali pinxt. S.F. Ravenet sculpt.
Roslin was active in Paris and came to hold a unique position on the international art scene of the 18th century. It was in the French capital that he met his future wife, the portraitist Marie Suzanne Giroust, and it was there he made the acquaintance of…
Lettering: The woman taken in adultery. St. John Chap. 8. Ver. 5. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned: but what sayst thou? Howbrake del. R. Pranker sculp.
Lettering: A medical opinion. Maurier.