Landscapes of the Western Front, 1914–1918
Photographs for official army panoramas that offer, a century after their strategic function has passed, an unusual and haunting portrait of WW1….more
Photographs for official army panoramas that offer, a century after their strategic function has passed, an unusual and haunting portrait of WW1….more
Wonderful examples of “fore-edge painting”, where an illustration or design appears on the “fore-edge” of a book….more
Highlights from the fantastic collection of Hiroshige prints held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam….more
Images depicting ferruginous variation from a 19th-century geological paper, at times like some kind of geological precursor to the 50s experiments of Abstract Expr…more
A compendium of anthropomorphic landscapes, in which natural vistas are given the form of human heads….more
An Austrian painter’s beautiful presentation of various atmospheric conditions including will-o’-the-wisp, a moonbow, and the Northern Lights….more
One of the most impressive attempts to render Dante’s Divine Comedy visually, the illuminations found in an Italian manuscript produced only 125 years or so after D…more
Series of fifty-three prints created by a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige, each illustration depicting a Tōkaidō station in the form of…more
A selection of pages from a remarkable book produced sometime in the 1890s, an album of full-page colour illustrations (what look to be chromolithographs) of landma…more
A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program….more
Selected illustrations from the German architect and engineer Georg Andreas Böckler’s Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664)….more
A selection from a collection of early 20th century lantern slides held at the Fylkesarkivet of Sogn og Fjordane, a county in the west of Norway….more
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