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1914: Honour Has Come Back, as a King, to Earth

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Harry Clarke: “Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,” illustration for Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Dead” in The Year’s at the Spring; an Anthology of Recent Poetry (1920). The poem was first published in 1914, in the autumn … Continue reading →

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1857: Bodrum

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George Frederic Watts: Bodrum, Asia Minor (1857)

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1918: Mysterious Island

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N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading →

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2.2 mya: Matsya and the Asura Hayagriva

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

In Hindu mythology, there are four historical eras, yugas,  that repeat in a cycle; the first of these is the Satya Yuga, followed by the Treta Yuga, the Dvapara Yuga, and, finally, the Kali Yuga. We are presently in a … Continue reading →

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1937: Black Flag

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Rene Magritte: Le Drapeau Noir [The Black Flag] (1937)

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1864: Bird and Weeds

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Léon Bonvin: Landscape with Bird and Weeds (1864)

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1650: Very Tempting

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Joos van Craesbeeck: The Temptation of St Anthony (c. 1650)

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1862: Billedbog

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Pages from a scrapbook billedbog (Danish: “picture book”) made by Hans Christian Andersen and his friend Adolph L. Drewsen for eight-year-old Jonas Drewsen. Andersen and Drewsen both contributed to the collages and wrote stories and poems around the pictures and in … Continue reading →

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1876: Marsh

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Martin Johnson Heade: Marsh Sunset, Newburyport, Massachusetts (c. 1876–1882)

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1776: The Resurrection of the Universal Friend

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Born in Rhode Island in 1752, Jemima Wilkinson would become, at the age of 25, the first American-born woman to found a religious group—following what she claimed was her death and resurrection. She abandoned her birth name, asked to be … Continue reading →

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