Archive for the ‘art’ Category
pigeon’s egg head
George Catlin, Pigeon’s Egg Head: Going to and Returning from Washington, 1837-9. Oil. Held at Smithsonian American Art Museum, where else – Washington. Teaching resource here.
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skotnes
Cecil Skotnes (1926-2009), Untitled. 1980. Woodcut. More here and here.
Filed under: art, Southern Africa | Closed
council rock
A block print by Joseph Donnelly, photographed recently by Lisa Ann-Ishihara, via Youngstown News.
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bastard
You’re looking at some amazing South African leaders: first, Adam Kok III, the man who led the Griquas from Philippolis across the Drakensberg into Kokstad; Nicholaas Waterboer, the man who held the fort at Griquatown while Free State and colonial administrations (and their lawyers) squabbled over the diamond fields that fell within his inherited jurisdiction; […]
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arrival and possession
From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Catalog.
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table bay, 1652
Charles Bell (1813-82), Jan van Riebeeck arrives in Table Bay in April 1652, via wiki.
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p is for pilgrim
Love this. Buy it for your kids.
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cowboys and aliens
via Newspaper Rock Soon to become a movie, starring Harrison Ford. No joke.
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the colonizability of africa
Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920, Colonizability of Africa, Map from Johnson, A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races, 1899. Also held at the New York Picture Library. via yeah, victorians! my-ear-trumpet ahypertrophiedmemory
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War and pestilence! Two young ladies taken prisoners by the savages, 1833 woodcut, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C.
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