Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865. Buy as a print here:
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Under a dark Arctic sky, polar explorer Isaac Israel Hayes's ship, the SS *United States*, lies frozen in the pack ice at the base of a looming cli...
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Over 150 yrs ago, George Perkins Marsh urged his readers to consider the disastrous environmental effects of deforestation, over-mining, and other human actions. Read more about this remarkable thinker and his extraordinary book, Man and Nature (1864)
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George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)
Groundbreaking study of humanity’s affect on physical geography by the American statesman, philologist, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.
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From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road. ⠀⁠ Available as a print from our online shop —
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This is the first of tryptich of works known as "Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō", a spoof of the popular Japanese print subject depictng...
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To raise money for the project we sell beautiful prints through our online shop. Superb archival quality. Unframed or framed ready to hang. Explore our collection of 900+ images here:
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Premium prints using pigment-based archival inks (Giclee process) on high grade heavyweight art paper. Available as unframed or framed and ready to...
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Plate from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), a delightful series of colour lithographs of mushrooms, divided into those that are edible, poisonous and “suspect” — https://publicdomainreview.org/coll.../atlas-des-champignons image
Triptych by Kawanabe Kyōsai depicting a battle of frogs, 1864. ⠀ Kyōsai is considered both Japan’s first political caricaturist and one of the first authors of a manga magazine (Eshunbun Nipponchi). ⠀ Prints to buy here: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/kawanabe-kyosai
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One of the first books to be banned and burnt in the New World was by an ancestor of the author Thomas Pynchon. More in our essay by Daniel Crown “The Price of Suffering”:
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The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon and The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption
William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote ...
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Illustration by Ivan Bilibin for an 1899 edition of the Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful. One of two Bilibin illustrations from the tale available to buy as prints from our online shop — https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/ivan-bilibin image
Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel #Proust (who died #onthisday in 1922) would time and again turn to the visual arts. Explore here the artworks he mentions including paintings by Giotto, Botticelli and Poussin:
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Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)
As a celebration of the centennial of the publication of Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, we have pu...
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