Thursday, February 13, 2025

my TRUMP CARDS so far ...

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

SPENCER METAL GROUP AT MELKSHAM ... a pattern for a casting, maybe ?

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i rescued this object from a tip next to a junk shop in the old melksham market, probably in the late seventies ... it looks like a pattern ...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

blue courtesans ... KUNISADA made five blue woodcuts of famous courtesans in 1831 ... KUNIYOSHI next made three in a similar format

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THE KUNISADA FIVE ... A Kaomachi of Yagyoku, kamuro Matsuno and Konagawa B The courtesan Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya, kamuro Yoshino and Tatsuta ...
Monday, January 6, 2025

japanese horse tack in a hokusai print

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i was puzzled by a small detail in this picture  so i had a conversation about this subject with ChatGPT  their responses were composed in s...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

william orpen ... changing billets, picardy, 1918 ... exhibited in 1929 and sold recently at christie's

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https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6506481 an original sketch is kept by the imperial war museum ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS is often told as a children's tale, but was intended as a gentle satire on the adult world of the early 1700s ... REX WHISTLER illustrated it rarther beautifully ... most but not all of his illustrations follow ...

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https://archive.org/details/gulliverstravels0000swif_v2u3/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater