Tag Archives: Great Britain

1891: After the Deluge

Posted on August 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Frederic Watts: After the Deluge (The Forty-First Day) (1886–1891)

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1930: The High-Speed Vehicle of the Future

Posted on August 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Dynasphere was a monowheel vehicle patented in 1930 by J. A. Purves, who called it “the high-speed vehicle of the future”; one source, however, reports that “while the [vehicle] could move along just fine, it was almost impossible to … Continue reading →

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1937: Underground

Posted on August 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Emil Otto Hoppé: British Museum Underground Station, London, 1937

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1914: The Rothschilds’ Fleas

Posted on August 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Although he may not have paid £1,000 for a flea in 1914 (about $135,000 today), the banker Charles Rothschild was in fact a respected entomologist and an avid collector of fleas. He acquired some 260,000 specimens, including about 500 new … Continue reading →

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1884: Joseph Arch’s Hands

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Born the son of a farmworker, Joseph Arch started work at the age of nine—first as a crow-scarer, then as a plough-boy. Eventually, he mastered a range of skills that allowed him to move around the Midlands and South Wales, … Continue reading →

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1953: Painter / Spy

Posted on August 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Tomás Harris: Mallorca Series No.9 (1953) Tomás Harris trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and the British Academy in Rome before deciding to follow in his wealthy father’s footsteps and become an art dealer in London. Early in … 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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1831: Bristol Burns

Posted on August 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

W. J. Müller: Bristol Burns (1831) Arising from the House of Lords’s rejection of a bill that would have increased representation in the House of Commons, the 1831 Bristol Riots were part of the long struggle for democracy in the … Continue reading →

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1875: Passing Days

Posted on August 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Melhuish Strudwick: Passing Days (1875)

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1932: from the “Penaglis M. Hadoulis”

Posted on August 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Everett: Seascape from the “Penaglis M. Hadoulis” (1931-32)

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