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Winold Reiss, Portrait of Langston Hughes, 1926. ⭐

This portrait of the Harlem Renaissance poet, executed against a stunning Jazz Age backdrop, served as the cover for our May/June 2021 issue.


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2021-08-06

Pages from the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary, c. 1500. This manuscript, created in Suffolk, England, provides unique testimony to the natural knowledge and mythical imagination of the Tudor era. 🦌

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2020-12-14

Happy Valentine’s Day! Brooch, c. 1770, is set with garnets – stone associated with love. Appears in portrait of textile importer William Duguid by Prince Demah Barnes, African-American portraitist who was active in Boston. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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2020-02-14

Jean-François Vilain, “Théâtre de la Porte St. Martin: Le Monstre,” ca. 1826, color lithograph. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Included in “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200”

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2018-10-25