Welcome to corvusfugit.com!
Corvus fugit means "the crow flies."Recent Top Posts
Blogroll
Tags
- 1870's
- 1880's
- 1890's
- 1900's
- 1910's
- 1920's
- 1930's
- 1940'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
- LGBT
- Mammals
- Miniatures
- Music
- Mythology
- Netherlands
- New York City
- Painting
- Photography
- Poetry
- Portraits
- Printmaking
- Religion
- Russia
- Sculpture
- Seascapes
- Ships & Sailing
- The Sky
- Trees
- Unions
- USA
- Women
Tag Archives: Animals
1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!
From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Century, 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, David Hindley, Germany, Great Britain, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Music
Leave a comment
1936: Then It Will Be Over
Here we are, alone again. It’s all so slow, so heavy, so sad … I’ll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They’ve talked. They haven’t said much. They’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adam Stennett, Animals, Art, Books, Death, France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Novels, Painting, USA, Writing
Leave a comment
2010: Runaway
Aubrey Longley-Cook: Runaway (2010); Longley-Cook’s blog is here.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Animals, Animation, Art, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Dogs, Mammals, Textiles, USA
Leave a comment
1890: Seagulls
Max Jensen: Seagulls over the Waves; I made up the date.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Germany, Max Jensen, Painting, Seagulls, Seascapes, The Ocean
Leave a comment
1910: Definition
Eervar; the last pig in a litter. This bonnive [sucking-pig] being usually very small and hard to keep alive is often given to one of the children for a pet; and it is reared in great comfort in a warm … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Animals, Ireland, Language, Mammals, P. W. Joyce, Pigs, Postcards
Leave a comment
1821: In Life the Firmest Friend
From a letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, August 1821: Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom…at twelve. After breakfast, we sit talking till six. From six till … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1820's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Clifton Tomson, Dogs, George Gordon Byron, Great Britain, Mammals, Painting, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetry, Portraits, Thomas Love Peacock, Writing
Leave a comment
1973: Literature
Nick Cardy: From Beyond the Unknown Vol. 1 #23 (August, 1973)
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Animals, Apes, Art, Books, Comics, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Libraries, Mammals, Nick Cardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, USA
Leave a comment
