Author Archives: corvusfugit

1974: Junker

Mark Jay Hook: Scale model of a 1974 Plymouth (2017) (source)

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1930: Atlas

Boris Ignatovich: At the Hermitage, 1930

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1918: Bursting Shell

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: Bursting Shell (1915)

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1897: Evening

Wilhelm Jaensson: Evening by the Shore. Motif from Oxelösund (1897)

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1647: The Rich Man Being Led to Hell

David Teniers the Younger: The Rich Man Being Led to Hell (c 1647) There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, … Continue reading

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1918: Steel Works

Charles John Holmes: A Two-Year-Old Steel Works: Erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech & Tozer, Ltd, Phoenix Works, Rotherham (c. 1918)

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1893: British Gas Works

Adolf von Meckel: British Gas Works on the River Spree (before 1893)

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1896: Cardiff

Lionel Walden: Cardiff Docks (1896)

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2004: Hope

Dren Maliqi: Hope (2004)

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1670: A Very Strange and Prodigious Wonder

A letter from John Winthrop, Jr. to Lord Brereton, October 11, 1670: Boston Oct. 11, 1670. My Lord: The relation which I am now presenting to your Lordship is of a very strange and prodigious wonder this last Summer in … Continue reading

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