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Tag Archives: Animals
1909: The Seven Ravens
The good little sister took a knife and cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the keyhole, and succeeded in opening the lock. When she had entered, she met a Dwarf, who said: “My child, what are you … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 1900's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Arthur Rackham, Birds, Books, Brothers Grimm, Fairy Tales, Germany, Great Britain, Illustration, Ravens
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19th Century: Provenance Unknown
Portrait of a child holding a lizard. Nineteenth or twentieth century, maybe American.
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Children, Lizards, Portraits, Reptiles, USA
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1889: Artist-in-Residence
The celebrated 19th century French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur was known for wearing men’s pants, shirts, and ties, as well as participating in traditionally masculine activities such as hunting and smoking. She lived with her lifelong partner, Nathalie Micas … Continue reading
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Tagged "Buffalo Bill" Cody, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, France, Horses, LGBTQ, Mammals, Nathalie Micas, Native Americans, Painting, Photography, Portraits, Printmaking, Rosa Bonheur, Sheep, USA, Women
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1965: The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys
The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys Now we take it up. (audience)Ye——s indeed. There were villagers at the Middle Place and a girl had her home there at Wind Place where she kept a flock of turkeys. At … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Dance, Dennis Tedlock, Native Americans, Poetry, Turkeys, USA, Walter Sanchez, Zuni
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1808: Portrait of a Horse’s Ass
Henry Raeburn: Portrait of George Harley Drummond (ca. 1808–9); “It is curious…that the animal’s hindquarters should be so prominently displayed” says the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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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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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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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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