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Tag Archives: Printmaking
1791: Picking Clams
Utagawa Toyokuni: Picking Clams (ca. 1791)
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Food and Drink, Japan, Printmaking, Utagawa Toyokuni, Women
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1943: Workers and Paintings
Honoré Sharrer: Workers and Paintings (1943) I can’t identify all the paintings in this painting. Leave a comment if you can fill in the blanks: Hugo Gellert : Free Man’s Duties (No 4) … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, 1850's, 18th Century, 1930's, 1940's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Dance, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, France, Grant Wood, Honoré Daumier, Honoré Sharrer, Hugo Gellert, Jean-François Millet, Labor, Madame de Pompadour, Mirrors, Netherlands, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Portraits, Printmaking, Spain, USA, Women
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1682: A Black Cloud of Strange Appearance
At Lynn, Mass., one evening in 1682, after the sun had set, and darkness had begun to throw its pall over the land, a man by the name of Handford went out of doors to ascertain if the new moon … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, Meteorology, Oddities, Printmaking, Ships & Sailing, The Sky, USA, Willem van de Velde
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1863: Dictionary of Hell
Entries from the 1863 edition of Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal: Amduscias: Grand-duc aux enfers. Il a la forme d’une licorne; mais lors-qu’il est évoqué, il se montre sous une figure humaine. Il donne des concerts, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Books, Demons, Dictionaries, Drawing, France, Hell, Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, Louis Breton, M. Jarrault, Printmaking
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1617: Atalanta Fugiens
Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens is an alchemical “emblem book” consisting of 50 illustrations by Matthias Merian, each of which is accompanied by a epigrammatic verse, a philosophical discourse, and a musical fugue. This first emblem shows Boreas, the North Wind, … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Alchemy, Books, Germany, Matthias Merian, Michael Maier, Printmaking
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1929: From a Paris Plane
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: From a Paris Plane (1929)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Aviation, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, France, Great Britain, Paris, Printmaking
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1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird
In 1921, the Istituto nazionale dantesco in Milan commissioned a lavish edition of the Divine Comedy to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death; the edition was to include an original color plate for each of the 100 canti of … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, 1930's, 20th Century, Amos Nattini, Art, Books, Cryptids, Dante, Italy, Poetry, Printmaking
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