Tag Archives: Great Britain

1874: Lost Beauties

Posted on January 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

A few entries from Charles Mackay’s Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen and Public Speakers (1874): Airt, the quarter from which the wind blows. “Helter skelter from a’ airts, In swarms the country drives.” … Continue reading →

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1666: Too Stars Fighting

Posted on January 24, 2018 by corvusfugit

In the same moneth [September, 1666] was seen a strange prodigy near us, Grace Butler my near neighbour that saw it told me of it, togather with several of James Brookesbankes family, it was too stars fighting, they struck violently … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 17th Century, 2010's, 21st Century, Art, Astronomy, Ben Bromley, Books, Great Britain, Oddities, Oliver Heywood, Painting | Leave a comment

1759: Rocky Bay

Posted on January 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

Alexander Cozens: Rocky Bay Scene (c.1759–65)

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1957: Jaguar

Posted on January 18, 2018 by corvusfugit

Leslie Carr: D-Type Jaguar at Le Mans 1957 (1957)

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1958: Industrial Landscape

Posted on January 16, 2018 by corvusfugit

Harry Epworth Allen: Industrial Landscape, Hope Valley, Derbyshire (c. 1958)

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1987: Not Like a River

Posted on January 16, 2018 by corvusfugit

The river-of-time metaphor symbolises the flow of time as the steady movement of a current along with all the flotsam it carries—and the events we experience are depicted by the particular pieces of flotsam being carried along past us by … Continue reading →

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1871: Channel

Posted on December 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Brett: The British Channel Seen from the Dorsetshire Cliffs (1871)

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1822: Clouds

Posted on December 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Constable: Cloud Study (1822) Twenty of Constable’s studies of skies made during this season are in my possession, and there is but one among them in which a vestige of landscape is introduced. They are painted in oil, on … Continue reading →

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1908: Work or Riot

Posted on December 16, 2017 by corvusfugit

On October 15, 1908, an Irish clerk and ex-soldier named Wallace Brandford Collins ordered a throng of unemployed men and women in Hyde Park to riot at the British Museum. Collins was described as a man of powerful physique who … Continue reading →

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1944: Factory

Posted on December 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Frederick William Elwell: A Munitions Factory (1944)

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