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Tag Archives: Animals
1932: New Art Saves Strange Beasts
A headline from this article in Popular Science Monthly, January 1932:
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Mammals, Museums, Rhinoceroses, Science, USA, Zebras
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1832: The Destructive Sphinx
Illustrations from The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature; in three volumes (Thomas Brown, 1832-4)
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Animals, Books, Butterflies, Great Britain, Illustration, Insects, Moths, Thomas Brown
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1639: Thoughts
From a letter written by James Howell, 17 March 1639: Having got into a close field, I cast my face upward, and…began to contemplate as I was in this posture the vast magnitude of the universe and what proportion this … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1820's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Great Britain, James Howell, John Constable, Letters, Nature, Painting, Philosophy, The Sky, Trees
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1802: The Eagle
William Blake: Headpiece to “The Eagle,” an illustration for William Hayley’s Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1802).
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Babies, Birds, Books, Eagles, Great Britain, Illustration, Printmaking, William Blake
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1953: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur
Leonora Carrington: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Animals, Children, Dogs, Leonora Carrington, Mammals, Mexico, Mythology, Painting, Women
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1794: The Game of the Snake
Robert Laurie and James Whittle: The Royal Pastime of Cupid, or Entertaining Game of the Snake (London, 1794) The rules: Haveing a pare of dice, it must be first agreed upon, what to play for, which is to be layd … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Animals, Games, Great Britain, Reptiles, Snakes
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1921: Swans
Frank William Brangwyn: The Swans (1921)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Frank William Brangwyn, Great Britain, Painting, Swans, Wales
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1810: A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom
A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom (Oudh, India, ca. 1810-30) (source)
370 BC: Numberless Democrituses Like Himself
The pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) believed in an infinite universe, and therefore in an infinite number of worlds. Some might be bigger or smaller than earth, he concluded; some might have more moons or suns, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, 3rd Century, 4th Century BC, Animals, Art, Astronomy, Birds, Crows, Democritus, Great Britain, Greece, Hippolytus, Leonora Carrington, Mexico, Philosophy, Printmaking, Pseudo-Hippocrates, Women
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1655: Remedies
Selections from Thomas Lupton’s book A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects: Disclosed from the Secrets of Nature and Art, Practicable, Profitable, and of Great Advantage: Set Down from Long and Curious Study and Experience (1655): The Soles of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Animals, Art, Books, Eels, Fish, Frogs, Great Britain, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Printmaking, Snakes, Thomas Lupton, Wasps, Weasels
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