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The Twelfth Month (Goku getsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu)

The Twelfth Month (Goku getsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)", c. 1793

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Jealousy, the Rival, 1803. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson

Jealousy, the Rival, 1803. Does not this drawing with its foreground arrangement of profoundly expressive figures become something greater than the subject might suggerst? Perhaps there is a French influence here. With rather a sense of worship, Rowlandson drew well-formed young women that were pleasing of feature, too. He is more serious in this subject than usual, and there is every indication that, when he so desired, he could paint a creditable picture full of the qualities which a conventional world might expect. Everything that an important painting should be is contained in this little drawing'. From "The Watercolour Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library" with commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. [Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., New York, 1947]

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Hat box filled with tools and materials from Mae's Millinery Shop , 1941-1994

Hat box without lid made from a pasteboard bottom printed in cream and gold stripes, and clear plastic sides. Mae Reeves (1912-2016) was a pioneering African-American milliner who was famous for her custom-made hats. Her business, Mae's Millinery Shop in downtown Philadelphia, was one of the first shops in the city to be owned by a woman of African American heritage

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