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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Hugh Thomson - One by one they steal nearer to the pot until they are squatted round it, with their hands out to the blaze.
Hugh Thomson, from The admirable Crichton, by J. M. Barrie, London, New York, 1914
Hugh Thomson - Father, see page 81. “It was a tiger-cat,” says Mr Wolley, “of the largest size. Death stared Lord Loam in the eye, but he never flinch
Hugh Thomson, from The admirable Crichton, by J. M. Barrie, London, New York, 1914
Monday, November 28, 2011
Edwin Austin Abbey - Miss Hardcastle
Edwin Austin Abbey, illustration to Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, from Edwin Austin Abbey, royal academician; the record of his life and work, vol. 1, by Edward Verrall Lucas, New York, 1921
Edwin Austin Abbey - Tony Lumpkin is his own man again
Edwin Austin Abbey, illustration to Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, from Edwin Austin Abbey, royal academician; the record of his life and work, vol. 1, by Edward Verrall Lucas, New York, 1921
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Thomas Landseer - Ae dreary ...
Thomas Landseer, from Tam o’Shanter and Souter Jonny, a poem, by Robert Burns, London, 1830
Ae dreary, windy, winter night,
The stars shot down wi’ slenting light,
Wi’ you, mysel, I gat a fright….
Thomas Landseer - Even Satan glowr’d, and fidg’d fu fain / And hotch’d and blew wi’ might and main
Thomas Landseer, from Tam o’Shanter and Souter Jonny, a poem, by Robert Burns, London, 1830
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Percy Tarrant - A Friendly Word
A London painter of figurative and genre subjects. He exhibited 22 works at the Royal Academy, including Home from the Fields, Making a Gentleman of Him and A Pair of Grandfathers. He also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Institute of oil Painters, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and elsewhere in the provinces. His daughter, Margaret Winifred Tarrant, was a watercolour painter and illustrator.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Gustave Dore - Before she had time to exclaim “Oh, my gracious!” / She was bolted entire by the monster voracious
Gustave Doré, from Fairy realm, told in verse by Tom Hood, London, 1866
Gustave Dore - Huntsmen bold returned from sport / Snoring, horns to lips!
Gustave Doré, from Fairy realm, told in verse by Tom Hood, London, 1866
Gustave Dore - Every step he nearer set / Oped the eyes of violet
Gustave Doré, from Fairy realm, told in verse by Tom Hood, London, 1866
Gustave Dore - Without any ado / It slipt into the shoe!
Gustave Doré, from Fairy realm, told in verse by Tom Hood, London, 1866
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Kelileh va Demneh
Kelileh va Demneh. This 15th century Persian mauscript is kept at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
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