Tag Archives: Drawing

1908: Flying Machine

Posted on September 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Harry Grant Dart: Cover illustration for the magazine The All-Story, October 1908

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1906: The Work of Trade-Rats

Posted on September 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

One of the oddest little animals in existence is the Californian wood-rat, better known as the “trade-rat.” It owes the latter name to the fact that though it is a great thief, it never steals anything without putting something else … Continue reading →

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1981: The Innocent Eye

Posted on August 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

Mark Tansey: The Innocent Eye Test (1981) The title of this painting is taken from a book by the artist John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing (1857), where, in a footnote, Ruskin says that to see as an artist requires … Continue reading →

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1999: Under the Gowanus

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Rackstraw Downes: Under the Gowanus with Sanitation Department Towers (1999) Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn. “The Gowanus Expressway, which serves as the southern extension of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, also connects the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel approach, the Prospect Expressway (NY 27), … Continue reading →

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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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1929: The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Hugh Ferriss: Illustration from The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929) (source)

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1850: The Last Hoopoe Starling

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

FREGILUPUS VARIA As long ago as 1674 a note about the “Huppe” exists, by “Le Sieur D.B.,” i.e., Dubois. He says, when describing the birds of Réunion (translated): “Hoopoes or ‘Callendres,’ having a white tuft on the head, the rest … Continue reading →

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1875: Flight

Posted on August 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith’s long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875.” drawn between 1875 and 1880, possibly by Albert Tissandier (source)

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1903: The Hierophant was Petrifying

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Walt MacDougall: Illustration for “MacDougall’s Stories for Good Children,” February 22, 1903 (source)

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1918: It Is Well that No Protection Be Afforded the Bird

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Common Crow (corvus brachyrhynchos); frontispiece of The Crow and Its Relation to Man (E. R. Kalmbach, 1918). When feeding on injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and when dispersing seeds of beneficial plants, the crow is working largely for … Continue reading →

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