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Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

In the Deep Woods

1918-56

watercolor on joined paper

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Charles E. Burchfield American, 1893-1967

Hemlock in November, 1947-66

Watercolor and charcoal on joined paper mounted on board

(thanks, Brian)

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Thursday, Walter Dendy Sadler. 1880.

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The American Velocipede, 1868, a wood engraving from Harper's Weekly

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Adolph Menzel — Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci

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Arthur Dove (American, 1880-1946)

oil on canvas, Framed: 90.17 x 116.84 x 5.72 cm (35 1/2 x 46 x 2 1/4 inches); Unframed: 76.40 x 101.60 cm (30 1/16 x 40 inches). Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1992.128

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An illustration from a fable in which Tortoise carries Scorpion on its back across a river, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.599, fol.40b From the Kalilah and Dimna, otherwise known as The Anwar-I-Suhaili (Lights of Canopus) or Fables of Bidpai.

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Cover illustration from Mee-a-ow! or, Good advice to cats and kittens by R.M. Ballantyne (London: T. Nelson, 1876)

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Däumling; Darstellung von Alexander Zick (1845–1907)

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Because of his propensity to lead travelers astray and abduct children, which he shares with Chort, or "The Black One," the Leshy is believed by some to be evil. Others view him as more of a temperamental being like a fairy.

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The Dictionnaire Infernal (English: Infernal Dictionary) is a book on demonology, describing demons organised in hierarchies. It was written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818. There were several editions of the book; perhaps the most famous is the 1863 edition, which included sixty-nine illustrations by Louis Le Breton depicting the appearances of several of the demons. Many but not all of these images were later used in S. L. MacGregor Mathers's edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon.

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Behemoth and Leviathan, watercolour by William Blake from his Illustrations of the Book of Job.

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A. Avelin after Mondon le Fils. Chinese God. An engraving from the ouvrage «Quatrieme livre des formes, orneė des rocailles, carteles, figures oyseaux et dragon»1736, via Wikipedia.

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Genex Tower. See also.

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You see, I think it's quite possible that the nineteen-sixties represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished. And that this is the beginning of the rest of the future now, and that from now on there'll simply be all these robots walking around, feeling nothing, thinking nothing. And there'll be nobody left almost to remind them that there once was a species called a human being, with feelings and thoughts. And that history and memory are right now being erased, and soon nobody will really remember that life existed on the planet.

Andre Gregory, My Dinner with Andre, 1981

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Etching depicting some of the most significant plants of the Carboniferous.