Welcome to corvusfugit.com!
Corvus fugit means "the crow flies."-
Join 424 other subscribers
Recent Top Posts
- 1981: The Innocent Eye
- 1898: The Moon
- 1505: The Dog Hidden Under the Hidden Unicorn
- 1649: Descartes's Wooden Daughter
- 2017: Petition
- 1959: Even a Kid Knows it's Wrong to Cross a Picket Line
- 2014: A Moroccan Man (1913)
- 1901: Don't Know What I Want but I Know How to Get It
- 1935: Found Photo
- 1832: The Destructive Sphinx
Blogroll
Tags
- 1860's
- 1870's
- 1880's
- 1890's
- 1900's
- 1910's
- 1920's
- 1930's
- 1940's
- 1950's
- 1960's
- 1970's
- 2000's
- 2010's
- Africa
- African-Americans
- Animals
- Art
- Belgium
- Birds
- Books
- Children
- Christianity
- Drawing
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Italy
- Labor
- Landscapes
- LGBTQ
- Mammals
- Miniatures
- Netherlands
- New York City
- Painting
- Photography
- Poetry
- Portraits
- Printmaking
- Religion
- Science Fiction
- Sculpture
- Seascapes
- Ships & Sailing
- The Sky
- Trees
- Unions
- USA
- Women
Tag Archives: 19th Century
1830: The Boy After this Excited Much Wonder
From John Fanning Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, from the days of the Pilgrim founders (1830): The good people of Caledonia [Scotland] have so long and exclusively … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Art, John Fanning Watson, Oddities, Painting, Peter Vanderlyn, Portraits, USA
Leave a comment
1869: Ayu Dag
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky: View of the Ayu Dag (1869)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Ivan Aivazovsky, Landscapes, Painting, Russia, Seascapes
Leave a comment
1895: Procession
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo: The Procession (1892-1895)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Christianity, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italy, Painting, Religion
Leave a comment
1894: La vitrioleuse
Eugène Samuel Grasset: La vitrioleuse [The Acid Thrower] (1894)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Crime, Eugène Samuel Grasset, France, Printmaking, Women
Leave a comment
1891: February
Joaquim Vancells: February Landscape (1891)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Joaquim Vancells, Landscapes, Painting, Spain, Trees
Leave a comment
1894: The Angels of the Night
William Degouve de Nuncques: The Angels of Night (1894)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Angels, Art, Belgium, Painting, The Moon, Trees, William Degouve de Nuncques
Leave a comment
1894: The Feeling of Dependence
Sascha Schneider: Das Gefühl der Abhängigkeit [The Feeling of Dependence] (1894)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Germany, LGBTQ, Monsters, Painting, Sascha Schneider
Leave a comment
1875: An Absolute Democracy
The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1870's, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Bees, Books, Democracy, France, Insects, John Burroughs, Louis Auzoux, Poltical Science, Sculpture, USA
Leave a comment
1890: Glacier
William Bradford: Muir Glacier (1890)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, USA, William Bradford
Leave a comment
1881: By the Sea
Max Klinger: By the Sea – Plate II from Intermezzos, Opus IV (1881) (source)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Germany, Max Klinger, Printmaking, Seascapes, The Ocean, Women
Leave a comment
corvusfugit.com 