Flâneur

Sangi Takamura, from the series "One Hundred Poems as Explained by the Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎, 1835/36

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, with an attendant in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718

Torii Kiyonobu I, 1718

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

Viola Surviving the Shipwreck off the Coast of Illyria, from “Twelfth Night”

George Romney, c. 1776

Black chalk and charcoal on ivory laid paper, edge mounted on ivory laid paper

George Romney’s reputation as a portraitist rivaled that of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, the leading figures of 18th-century British painting. Romney’s true ambition to be a history painter, however, was not fully realized until the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery was opened in 1786. This drawing is one of hundreds by Romney, most of which are in pen and wash, illustrating...