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With his extravagant dress, entourage of exotic pets, and morbid fascinations, Count Stenbock is considered one of the greatest exemplars of the Decadent movement. David Tibet on the enigmatic writer’s short and curious life. …more
In 1848, the mineralogist, pioneer of photography, and amateur poet Robert Hunt…more
Five hundred years ago this month, a strange mania seized the city…more
Bernd Brunner on the English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and how his…more
Expensive and laborious to produce, a single woodcut could be recycled to…more
Colour lithographs and photographs from the first book to extensively depict a coral reef using photography.more
Dürer’s extraordinary, grandiose triumphal arch which he designed for Emperor Maximilian —…more
Wonderful series of medieval cosmographic diagrams and schemas sourced from a late…more
In the style of an 18th-century ballad chapbook, a comic look at various professions and there…more
Hamonshū v. 1, by Mori Yūzan; Yamada Geisōdō, Kyōto-shi, Meiji 36 [1903]…more
Colourful compendium of 37 nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of…more
Jean Bernard (1775-1833) was a Dutch art collector and painter specialising in portraits of people and animals drawn mostly with charcoal and colored crayons.Read more
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed “the Raphael of flowers”.Read more
Short educational film on what can be seen in the night sky through a telescope, including…more
Curious and groundbreaking mix of documentary and silent horror cinema, written and…more
Miniaturised dancers give a history of dance from the stone-age to the…more
In this novelty recording by the Norwegian actor Henry Klauser, a mournful refrain gradually gives way…more
First known recording of the popular African American spiritual performed in 1909…more
Early recording of the alma mater of Rutgers, The State University of…more
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