Tag Archives: Painting

1921: Swans

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

Frank William Brangwyn: The Swans (1921)

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1927: Calm at Sea

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Lyonel Feininger: Calm at Sea II (1927)

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1509: The Most Curious Book in the World

Posted on March 23, 2020 by

The following entry appears in Charles Carroll Bombaugh’s Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and Instructive (1867): THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD The most singular bibliographic curiosity is that which belonged … Continue reading →

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1810: A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom

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A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom (Oudh, India, ca. 1810-30) (source)

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1800: Portrait of an Eye

Posted on February 22, 2020 by

Eye portrait brooches from early 19th century England. All at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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1895: Moon over the Forest

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Charles Warren Eaton: Moon over the Forest (c 1895)

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1894: River

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Peder Mørk Mønsted: A Summer River Landscape (1894)

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