March 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. Workmen washing up at the end of the day at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Painting, calligraphy, tiger, ink on paper, North India, late 19th century
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Drawing, in black ink on paper, ornamental calligraphy in the form of a running elephant, saddled with a double-seated high saddle. The whole embodies the name and titles of a Nawab of Jasra. North India or Pakistan, possibly Lahore, late 19th century.
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Design by C. F. A. Voysey for lettering, alphabets and numbers, London, about 1930
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“Bloody Tower – the bones of the two murdered princes were found within the right hand window”
Woodblock print triptych, 'Interior of a Theatre' by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), Japan
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Magic lantern slide of a tiger with moving eyes
František Kupka (Czech,1871-1957)
Čáry, plochy, prostor, 1913-1922
Glorious linocut of morning sunshine though the apple orchard. Created by Paula Payne who specialises in woodland environments. She trained as a fine artist and school art teacher in North of England at Stockport UK. #linocut #orchard #apples
Wings
Sybil Andrews
linocut in colors, 1979
Hanjiro Sakamoto, "Kōnominato" - Tsukushi gokei (Kōnominato from the series Five Scenes of Tsukushi) is by Hanjiro Sakamoto (1882-1969). Originally published in Taisho 7 (1918). This is a later printing by Kato Hanga Kenkyusho in Showa 45 (1970). Limited edition of 300 prints published. Carver is Kentaro Maeda, Printer is Bunji Yokoyama.
“This image is a digital composite of a good Moon image and surface height data taken from NASA's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission -- and then exaggerated for educational understanding. [...]
The dark areas, called maria, have fewer craters and were once seas of molten lava. Additionally, the image colors, although based on the moon's real composition, are changed and exaggerated. Here, a blue hue indicates a region that is iron rich, while orange indicates a slight excess of aluminum."
“Phases of the planet Saturn.” The beauty of the heavens. 1842.
George Rinhart. Two women on a giant swing at the famous old Mitcham Commons. 1920s
