Friday, January 6, 2023

A few mansions from the SHORPY web pages ... mostly dilapidated ...

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https://www.shorpy.com/node/1338?size=_original#caption https://www.shorpy.com/node/8662?size=_original#caption https://www.shorpy...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Giandomenico Tiepolo, 27 Engravings, The Holy Family’s Flight Into Egypt ...

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Giandomenico Tiepolo, 27 Engravings, The Holy Family’s Flight Into Egypt   https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/book/idee-pitto...
Monday, December 26, 2022

aspirational love and marriage from currier and ives

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https://www.si.edu/object/life-age-man-james-baille:nmah_325223 https://www.si.edu/object/life-age-woman-james-s-baillie:nmah_325225 https:/...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

up early ... we drink two whole glasses of something bubbly ... and then wasted a half hour trying to make a clumsy visual joke about her sybaritic lifestyle ...

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my christmas choice ... i hope to read it before easter

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  i heard him being interviewed for desert island discs a while back ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b096gnqx
Thursday, December 22, 2022

two long quotes about SIGHT from the spencer alley blog .... and a poem ...

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  "Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

the queen's matrimonial ladder ... verses and illustrations ... and some card ready for cutting ... detailing the misfortunes of the much wronged queen caroline ... illustrated by cruickshank ... printed in 1820 ...

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  clicketty-click ! ... https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/object/wessca-1877?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=48f0d210bc2e8234dce5&solr_nav%5Bpage...