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1944’s “Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt” by cartographer Harold Fisk makes the Mississippi River move.

"Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt" is a series of maps created in 18944 by cartographer and geologist Harold Fisk... Read on > > >

Nature

Man vs. Barkbeetle, enemy of California Forests. 1919-1934.

These photographs & captions are from a hand-colored photo album called “Barkbeetle Enemies of California Forests”. The album was produced... Read on > > >

Nature

Colour plates from “Gems and precious stones of North America” (1890) & “History of the gems found in North Carolina” (1907) by George Frederick Kunz, (1856-1932).

“A popular description of their occurrence, value, history, archaeology, and of the collections in which they exist, also a chapter... Read on > > >

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Sex, science & sumptuous flowers in Dr. Robert John Thornton’s 1807 epic, A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: The Temple of Flora.

Exotic flora from foreign climes, their genitalia turned provocatively, suggestively toward the viewer, Dr. Robert John Thornton’s romantic floral opus, A... Read on > > >

Art & Design Nature

“The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope, devours him. . . Birds of prey have each torn a strip of flesh from the poor animal that is shedding a tear! The sun sets.” Henri Rousseau.

The French poet Apollinaire once described how his friend Rousseau would quite genuinely become frightened by his own creations. He... Read on > > >

Art & Design Nature

The bird whisperer Louis Agassiz Fuertes, who killed the birds he madly loved & the rare fruits of his final bloody jaunt to Abyssinia.

It’s said that the artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes loved birds before he loved painting. He was certainly demonstrably crazy about... Read on > > >

Art & Design Nature Travel

Anna Boberg. Painting icy mountains under the midnight sun.

Anna Boberg (Swedish, 1864-1935) began by designing handicraft and tapestry patterns as well as porcelain in exquisite Art Nouveau style.... Read on > > >

Art & Design Nature

Found. Early photographs of an extraordinary time in a remote place. Leaf through the scrapbook of soviet-era Berdsk, central Russia.

Berdsk sits in the centre of Russia on the left bank of the Berdsk gulf, a wide flooded valley of... Read on > > >

Art & Design Nature

The alien U.S. landscapes of Henry “Yellowstone” Moran.

Irrespective of him being one of the greatest interpreters of the American landscape, England should claim Thomas Moran (1837-1926). He... Read on > > >

Art & Design Nature

Variations on a theme : Vesuvius.

Art & Design Nature

The Siberian art expeditions to the Sel’Kupy tribes in the 1910s & 20s. The sketchbooks & watercolours of Dmitriĭ Innokentʹevich Karatanov.

Dmitriĭ Innokentʹevich Karatanov (1874-1952) studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts but left the Academy in 1896 before... Read on > > >

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The Siberian art expeditions to the Sel’Kupy tribes in the 1910s & 20s. The sketchbooks, watercolours & oils of Andrei Prokof’evich Lekarenko.

Andrei Prokofievich Lekarenko (1895-1974) is one of three well-known Krasnoiarsk artists, (the other 2 being Dmitri Innokent’evich Karatanov & A.... Read on > > >

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“Visions, delirium and nightmares!” The truly epic fails of Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), iconic photographer of the Antarctic and the first and only pioneer of “distortography”.

A Late Middle Ages fashion show. The lost and found ten weepers from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon c. 1475.

Shaffrons.

Tight corsets, outrageous bustles, picnics, hiking & tea. The Real Housewives of Camden, Maine : 1898-1900.

“Visions, delirium and nightmares!” The truly epic fails of Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), iconic photographer of the Antarctic and the first and only pioneer of “distortography”.

Frank Eugene, son of a German baker & a beer hall singer and his signature “unphotographic photography.”

1944’s “Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt” by cartographer Harold Fisk makes the Mississippi River move.

Man vs. Barkbeetle, enemy of California Forests. 1919-1934.

Colour plates from “Gems and precious stones of North America” (1890) & “History of the gems found in North Carolina” (1907) by George Frederick Kunz, (1856-1932).

Dope fiends busted. 1950s narcotics crime photography from the archives of L.A. Enquirer.

John Martin’s sister was murdered by a neighbour, one brother was a “perfectly cracked” eccentric philosopher/inventor & the other an insane religious firestarter. Perhaps it’s no surprise John became the ultimate harbinger of The Apocolypse.

Outraged. The 1896 murder of Helen Thomson. Markinch, Fife, Scotland.

The mystery of The Unidentified Artist Formerly Known As William Etty. Is he actually Quiller Orchardson? Examine their nudes carefully & decide for yourself.

The world’s first abstract painter was a Swedish mystic guided by spirits. Hilda af Klint wanted her work kept secret until 20 years after her death.

Romancing Ruins. Bartholomeous Breenburgh and his strange vision of Rome.

Cutting and rickling reeds, shooting snipe and fishing for Pike, catching eels and quanting the marsh. The Norfolk Broads in the mid-1800s as seen thru’ the gentle lens of naturalist, photographer & ex-physician, Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936).

1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.

“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.

Nature

1944’s “Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt” by cartographer Harold Fisk makes the Mississippi River move.

Man vs. Barkbeetle, enemy of California Forests. 1919-1934.

Colour plates from “Gems and precious stones of North America” (1890) & “History of the gems found in North Carolina” (1907) by George Frederick Kunz, (1856-1932).

Sex, science & sumptuous flowers in Dr. Robert John Thornton’s 1807 epic, A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: The Temple of Flora.

“The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope, devours him. . . Birds of prey have each torn a strip of flesh from the poor animal that is shedding a tear! The sun sets.” Henri Rousseau.

The bird whisperer Louis Agassiz Fuertes, who killed the birds he madly loved & the rare fruits of his final bloody jaunt to Abyssinia.

Anna Boberg. Painting icy mountains under the midnight sun.

Found. Early photographs of an extraordinary time in a remote place. Leaf through the scrapbook of soviet-era Berdsk, central Russia.

The alien U.S. landscapes of Henry “Yellowstone” Moran.

Variations on a theme : Vesuvius.

The Siberian art expeditions to the Sel’Kupy tribes in the 1910s & 20s. The sketchbooks & watercolours of Dmitriĭ Innokentʹevich Karatanov.

The Siberian art expeditions to the Sel’Kupy tribes in the 1910s & 20s. The sketchbooks, watercolours & oils of Andrei Prokof’evich Lekarenko.