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Issachar Ber Ryback illustrations. Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance. Most of the lithographs done in 1917. He was truly at the fore of the Yiddish avant-garde.
Morphing.
From “On Growth and Form” by D’Arcy Wentworh Thompson, 1917.
9 May 1917. At 16.50hrs, German ace Werner Voss of Jasta 2, flying an Albatros D-III, destroyed a Sopwith Pup over Lesdain. Art by Iain Wyllie.
I finished it 😔
The reference is the cover of La Vie Parisienne, 1917.
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#OTD in 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.
1,198 people were killed, including 128 American citizens.
The sinking of the Lusitania turned political, press and public opinion in the USA against Germany.
The USA eventually declared war on Germany in April 1917.
Painting by Charles Bryant, AWM ART12418, depicts 1st Royal Australian Navy vessel, HMAS Sydney, to be attacked from the air #OTD May 4 1917. Imperial German Naval Zeppelin L-43 (LZ 92) duelled for 2 hrs with the squad until it ran out of bombs to drop. https://t.co/Xnb5jlNHyk
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917. The ship is named 'Endurance'. My previous set of Babelised images from their voyage proved popular, so I offer you 4 more, taken on that expedition by Frank Hurley 106 years ago. They are not colourised.
Charles Jay Strong's "Book of designs"; a masterpiece of modern ornamental art from 1917.
❛ People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
Happy birthday to the Surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington, born #OTD in 1917.
The Kremlin in the March sunlight, 1917. A moment, captured by Leonid Pasternak whose day is today.
Mar 26 1917 #OTD saw an Ottoman victory at the First Battle of Gaza. This Regimental Standard was presented to the defenders of Gaza, who repulsed the first British attack, 1917.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13709-00116 (digital file from original on page 33, no.115)
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'The Mad Mulrannies' / Harry Clarke.
1917.
Illustration to J. M. Synge’s 'The Playboy of the Western World'.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Reproduced in Crampton Walker’s 'Irish Life and Landscape' (1927) with facsimile of Harry's autograph.
The Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey by painter Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946), Sweden, 1917.
Zinaida Serebryakova - Bleaching Cloth, 1917. Oil on canvas, 142 х 175.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Hunting Party - Bristol F2B, Lieutenant Keith Park leading, 1917. Art by Lee Lacey.