tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84263173765196400952024-03-05T18:23:14.744-08:00The Best PicturesKairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.comBlogger507125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-22108912180731202112012-04-04T16:36:00.004-07:002012-04-04T16:47:28.208-07:00I loveI love the dark more than I love the light, because every dark night has a dawn, and for me, from darkness to light leads to the end. So yes, I am fascinated by the darkness. Everything is dark must have a good side to it is too bright and everything has a dark side to it. It makes me think of all possibilities in a given scenario. It stimulates my imagination and quench my curiosity to look Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-73122224740016465152012-04-02T08:54:00.000-07:002012-04-04T16:53:48.011-07:00The Whaling Naturalist"American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the course of feminine fashion by putting the hoop in hooped skirts and giving form to stomach-tightening and chest-crushing corsets. Spermaceti, the Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-11573598906631284712012-03-27T07:39:00.000-07:002012-04-04T16:53:48.035-07:00The Crimean WarThese lithographic scenes from the Crimean War, based on sketches by William Simpson, were published in London in a couple of series by Colnaghi & co. in the second half of the 1850s.The illustrations here are all derived from .tif downloads and the images themselves are cropped back to the edges of the mounted borders. The scene keys or legends were cut from the sides of their corresponding Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-78700107240879308452012-03-17T16:40:00.004-07:002012-03-17T16:47:09.483-07:00Kim Kardashian Hot Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-7028011816460754302012-03-16T14:51:00.001-07:002012-03-16T14:54:47.776-07:00car Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-48187156645659269862012-03-14T15:47:00.001-07:002012-03-14T15:57:57.668-07:00tattoos Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-68357230332284154362012-03-12T12:42:00.000-07:002012-04-04T16:53:48.054-07:00Love GamesThe 17th century engravings below come from a book of love emblems that is variously categorised around the traps as erotic and pornographic - it will help if you are trilingual and have a (very) good imagination. (I've omitted the French poetry pages to tone down the salaciousness)'Le Centre de l'Amour, Decouvert Soubs Divers Emblesmes Galans et Facetieux' (sic) was first published (by Chez Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-22026834495743844892012-03-09T03:00:00.004-08:002012-03-14T15:43:53.618-07:00Quotes About Life Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-60602748324557069672012-03-06T10:10:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.086-07:00Geometric PerspectiveThe images below (background spot-cleaned) come from a rather obscure 16th century anonymous paper manuscript containing sketches of geometric solids. The illustrations have been cropped from the slightly larger full-page layouts.The album of geometric and perspective drawings (Codex Guelf 74. 1. Aug. fol.) from the 1500s is available online from Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-49410902127663339662012-03-02T05:44:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.113-07:00Waterlife and PeacockThe images below come from 'Waterlife' (by Rambharos Jha, 2012) AND'I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail' (illustrated by Ramsingh Urveti, 2012)All illustrations are © Tara Books and the respective authors/illustrators.The images in this post appear with permission.The Octopus at Home (this is a detail; the full image is down below)"Here is the octopus in its habitat, the ocean. I have tried to Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-85360526034137082152012-02-18T04:06:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.140-07:00Paper Lanterns'Papierlaternen-Fabrik Riethmüller' [maker's catalog] Anonymous, c. 1880 - happy chromolithographs - from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. {six prints are it}Previously related? Not really, but still.. Paper Gods + Day of the Dead - Papercuts + Watch-Paper Prints.Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-53363122526972509762012-02-17T07:30:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.164-07:00Series Imaginum'Series Imaginum Augustae Domus Boicae, ad Genuina Ectypa Aliaque Monum Fide Digna delin. et Aaeri Incidit, Monachium' 1773 by Joseph Anton Zimmerman, is online at the Bavarian State Library in Munich - 'Miniaturansicht' for thumbnail pages.The book is (fairly obviously) a genealogical portrait record of Bavarian nobility (or royal lineage) from about the 10th century onwards. Bavarian Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-19495523909343064362012-02-13T03:07:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.188-07:00Sprague's Natural HistoryThe images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.They have all been background spot-cleaned to varying extents.Kingfisher"A single kingfisher is depicted perched on a bare branch"Connecticut Warbler"The single bird is depicted perched on a flowering branch of witch hazel"Chipmunk"The chipmunk is perched on an ear of corn. The date is written in graphite below the Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-67941352273000636652012-02-10T04:39:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.209-07:00East Asian DesignsI'm afraid I don't recall where these stylised organic line drawings came from. They were scanned a couple of years ago from a library book but I didn't keep the details. Such is life.Previous line drawing designs: Ancient Designs - Mexico + Peru ::: Native North American Designs.At delicious bookmarks: Japan.See you on Twitter.Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-13437799152086414922012-02-09T00:25:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.252-07:00Map OrnamentationThe images below come from a Harvard Library exhibition from last year called: 'Going for Baroque - The Iconography of the Ornamental Map' [LINK]"The ornamental features that may now seem little more than decorative embellishments once acted as richly nuanced symbols, analogies, and coded commentaries. This exhibit explores how decorative cartographic devices - cartouches, vignettes, figural Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-91153656665784004612012-02-05T09:40:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.346-07:00Tractatus de HerbisCodex Sloane 4016 is a 15th century Italian parchment manuscript belonging to a class of books known as herbals. These medicinal treatises recorded knowledge accumulated in the oral tradition about plants believed to possess therapeutic properties. See: one, two, three.Miniature of plants and a demon - the herb Ypericon, supposed to repel demonsMiniature of a plant and boys standing in the Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-43918829496328405742012-01-29T09:25:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.373-07:00Calligraphy Letterform Album'Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen' (calligraphic writing styles) was produced in the 1620s in Germany by the scribe, Johann Hering.Johann Hering (?1580-1647) compiled his album of elaborate calligraphic letterforms, innovative type arrangements and traditional alphabets over a ten year period in the 1620s and 1630s in the Kulmbach region of Bavaria. (Or it was produced sometime during this time Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-55059019093227057782012-01-28T04:50:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.543-07:00Gods of the Ancients'Images Depicting the Gods of the Ancients' by Vincenzo Cartari was first published in 1556. The engravings below are from a 1624 edition (in Italian).'Le Imagini De gli Dei de gli Antichi' by Vincenzo Cartari (with illustrations based on designs by Bolognino Zaltieri) was recently made available online via Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek. [this is the 1664 edition, in the original Italian, Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-83527190094034139642012-01-26T01:20:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.648-07:00Stripping TurtlesThe very rare, 2-volume series, 'Anatome Testudinis Europaeae', by LH Bojanus was published in 1819-1821 (in Latin), and includes 39 stipple engravings by F Lehmann after drawings by the author.[The images below have been cropped and background cleaned]Following completion of his medical training in Germany, Ludwig Heinrich (Louis Henri) Bojanus (1776-1827) somehow obtained a position at the Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-12670338709368701152012-01-20T04:20:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.749-07:00The Yuko Shimizu BookAll images below © Yuko Shimizu (posted with permission)Blow Up 3 © Yuko Shimizu (2010) [book]DJ Slip Mat (A Nice Set) © Yuko Shimizu (2006) [book]When I Opened My Eyes © Yuko Shimizu (2009) [book]Heinrich Popow^ © Yuko Shimizu (2008) [book]Fear © Yuko Shimizu (2007) [book]The Snow Machine © Yuko Shimizu (2002/3) [book]Now Hear This 2 © Yuko Shimizu (2007) [book]Isis the Cat © Yuko Shimizu (2007)Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-52602229122718109272012-01-17T02:53:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.858-07:00Beechey's Voyage'The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage / compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey^, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey ... in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28, by J. Richardson ... [et al.] ; illustrated with upwards of fifty Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-54082440197435743312012-01-06T05:55:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:48.960-07:00The Rocket Book"The upward progress of a rocket,lit in the basement by the janitor's son,causes some strange situations as itpasses through 20 floors of apartments!"American artist and author, Peter Newell (1862-1924), established his credentials providing humorous illustrations for famous magazines and newspapers in the last two decades of the 19th century.Newell also illustrated popular books by other authorsKairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-40289423773938592502011-12-31T04:20:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:49.058-07:00Satyr TaxisFantasy ornament designs (1550s) by Cornelis Bos- image captions below are translated/edited. A bit.Chariot of grotesques and scrollwork drawn by two fantasy animals and pushed by a satyr, whose head is trapped in a large shell. A satyr is in the car with a lighted lamp. [I]n print series of eight chariots of grotesques and scrollwork with satyrs, animals and various other creatures; decorated Kairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-69662174344692279722011-12-26T04:15:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:49.169-07:00Oscar Sanmartin VargasAll images below © Oscar Sanmartin{posted here with permission}El Planeta HermeticoEl Hotel MaelstronNadal BaronioEl Efecto Lupa El Niño Gusano 1995FuneralRitual de FecundidadEl Faro de AlesiaComposicion Digital 3Mercado Medievál 2012Leyendario CubiertaPreview of book, 'Leyendario: Criaturas de Agua' 2007{*Legendary Creatures of the Water*}Text: Óscar Sipán :: Illustrations: Oscar Sanmartin[StudyKairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8426317376519640095.post-18474647953372125532011-12-24T03:50:00.000-08:002012-04-04T16:53:49.290-07:00On The Nile“After getting astride of the saddle, comes motion No. 1, which is caused by the animal raising his hind quarters from the ground; this throws you forward, and you lose both your hat and your balance : then comes motion No. 2, which corresponds to motion No. 1, but with the front quarters; this motion throws the traveller as far backward as he was thrown forward before.These two motions leave theKairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175794946465918438noreply@blogger.com0