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Tag Archives: Painting
1915: Sugar Factory
Daniel Putnam Brinley: Hudson River View (Sugar Factory at Yonkers) (1915)
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1874: Lost Beauties
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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1889: Clouds
Marie Triepcke Kroyer: Clouds (1889)
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1666: Too Stars Fighting
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
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1876: Versions
Gustave Caillebotte: The Floor Scrapers (1875) Gustave Caillebotte: The Floor Scrapers (1876)
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1866: Waterspout
Gustave Courbet: The Waterspout (1866)
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1950: Maine
Rockwell Kent: Maine Headland, Evening (c. 1950)
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1759: Rocky Bay
Alexander Cozens: Rocky Bay Scene (c.1759–65)
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1957: Jaguar
Leslie Carr: D-Type Jaguar at Le Mans 1957 (1957)
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1958: Industrial Landscape
Harry Epworth Allen: Industrial Landscape, Hope Valley, Derbyshire (c. 1958)
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