Tag Archives: Animals

1890: Pig Disturber

Posted on May 11, 2019 by

William Weekes: Pigs Disturbed by a Hen; I made up the date.

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1828: Sala Dante

Posted on May 5, 2019 by

Joseph Anton Koch’s frescos of Dante’s Inferno (1825-28) decorate the Sala Dante in the Casino Massimo, a Roman Villa. Several scenes from the poem are illustrated here, including Dante and Virgil’s ride on the monster Geryon (upper right) and Count … Continue reading →

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2013: Landscape

Posted on April 21, 2019 by

Yan Cong: Landscape #6 (2013)

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1871: Wasp in a Wig

Posted on March 13, 2019 by

In 1870, illustrator John Tenniel wrote to Lewis Carroll suggesting that he delete an episode from Through the Looking-Glass: Don’t think me brutal, but I am bound to say that the ‘wasp’ chapter doesn’t interest me in the least, & … Continue reading →

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1894: Swans

Posted on March 12, 2019 by

Józef Pankiewicz: Nocturne: Swans in the Saxon Garden in Warsaw by Night (1894)

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1773: An Extraordinary Animal

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell famously recounts his travels with Samuel Johnson in the highlands and western islands of Scotland. The year was 1773; Johnson was in his mid-sixties. In an 1885 edition of … Continue reading →

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1357: Fruit

Posted on November 23, 2018 by

In passynge be the lond of CATHAYE toward the higℏ ynde & toward BACHARYE, men passen be a kyngdom þat men clepen CALDILHE, þat is a fuƚƚ fair contre. And þere growetℏ a maner of fruyt as þougℏ it weren … Continue reading →

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