Tag Archives: Children

1882: Jumbo

Posted on July 12, 2021 by corvusfugit

An anecdote from Matthew Scott’s biography of Jumbo the Elephant (1885): Once when I was riding him around in the Zoological Gardens, in London, sitting on his neck, with about a dozen children on a panier-saddle across his broad back, … Continue reading →

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19th Century: Provenance Unknown

Posted on February 21, 2021 by corvusfugit

Portrait of a child holding a lizard. Nineteenth or twentieth century, maybe American.

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1953: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur

Posted on April 13, 2020 by corvusfugit

Leonora Carrington: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953)

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1915: Children of Eve

Posted on April 6, 2020 by corvusfugit

Capitalist Henry Clay Madison is unmoved by the specter of a child laborer in John H. Collins’s Children of Eve (1915).

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1972: Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free

Posted on October 6, 2019 by corvusfugit

Carolyn Lawrence: Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free (1972)

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1920: Mother and Father Had Turned Into Cabbages

Posted on September 29, 2019 by corvusfugit

A selection from Charles William Kimmins’s book Children’s Dreams (1920): A lady was sitting on my bed, and the King and Queen were under the bed eating bread and butter, and a lot of ladies with them. The sun and … Continue reading →

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1919: At the Back of the North Wind

Posted on May 6, 2019 by corvusfugit

Jessie Willcox Smith: illustration for George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind (1919)

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1964: Oh, My Mangled Head!

Posted on April 14, 2019 by corvusfugit

In his book Alice in Many Tongues (1964), Warren Weaver spends the last chapter using a curious method to evaluate various translations of Alice in Wonderland. He takes the same passage from each translation—a portion of the Mad Tea-Party—and asks … Continue reading →

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100 AD: Leucippus

Posted on April 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

Galatea, daughter of Eurytius, who was son of Sparton, married at Phaestus in Crete Pandion’s son, Lamprus, a man of good family but without means. When Galatea became pregnant, Lamprus prayed to have a son and said plainly to his … Continue reading →

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2017: Mural

Posted on February 18, 2018 by corvusfugit

Sam Rodriguez: Here & There (2017) “Recently, I completed the first of what I hope will be many projects here in my hometown of San Jose, California on 8th & Empire Streets….On this wall, there is a portrait of my … Continue reading →

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