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...creating an archive of preparatory drawings for the lithographs before her death was not adequately recognized.

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2021-04-05

🎨🦟🐜🦗🌿Schizodactylus monstrosus, a large cricket found in Asia. "The Naturalist's Miscellany" by George Shaw (1789-1813), V.18.

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2020-05-22

🎨🗺🦗🐋📖From Carlo Collodi's "Le Avventure di Pinocchio", 1942, Beppe Porcheddu, 1898-1947.
Porcheddu's masterpiece is the illustration of Collodi's "Pinocchio" ( 1942 ).

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2020-04-29

🎨🖌🐦✒️🔎 Turkestan Sparrow, from The Birds of Asia, by John Gould 1804-1881. Considered the father of bird study and the Gould League of Australia is named for him.

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2020-04-08

🗡📖🔎👑Who doesn't love a mystery? Gather round boys and girls for the story of Two Princes in the Tower.

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2020-02-20

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Shells & Sea-plants, 1809, Henricus Franciscus Wiertz, 1784-1858. A 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands, he won gold medals for his drawings of nudes.

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2020-01-22

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Night & Sleep, 1878, Evelyn (Pickering) De Morgan, 1855-1919. De Morgan started drawing lessons when she was 15, & on the morning of her seventeenth birthday, she wrote in her diary: "Art is eternal, but life is short…" -- "

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2020-01-08

❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️Ianus or Ianuarius, 1698
Jacobus Harrewyn 1660-1727
January portrays the Roman god Janus seated on a cloud, holding a large key & mirror w/# 365; the zodiacal sign of Aquarius over the shoulder.

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2020-01-07

❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️The Calumny of Apelles is a tempera panel painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Based on the description of an ancient lost painting by Apelles, the work was completed in about 1494–95, and can be viewed at the Uffizi, Florence.

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2020-01-06

❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, A Girl at a Window, after 1799. Louis-Léopold Boilly, 5 July 1761-4 January 1845. At the height of the revolutionary Terror (more...)

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2020-01-03

❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts Jean Béraud, 1849-1935.
Famous for his many scenes of Parisian daily life during the Belle Époque, he received the Legion of Honor in 1894.

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2019-12-30