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You have my heart... 26 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
'You have my Heart Tho wee must Part' I*W Nat.(born) 6th Sept 1759. Token left by a mother forced by poverty to give up her child. The Foundling Hospital Collection Foundling Museum, UK via ...
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960) 26 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
'The Waterfall Fairy' link 'The Waterfall Fairy' From: 'The Enchanted Forest', 1921 link
Seaweed, sirens and two fish... 26 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
Seaweed sirens, early 1900s link Design for a belt buckle with two fish and seaweed by Eugène Samuel Grasset (1841-1917) link
The Orkney Finfolk 26 Aug 2013 | 10:19 am
In Orkney folklore, Finfolk are sorcerous shapeshifters of the sea, the dark mysterious race who regularly make an amphibious journey from the depths of the Finfolk ocean home to the Orkney Island.....
The Orkney chair 26 Aug 2013 | 10:19 am
I'm smitten with these Orkney chairs made from oat straw, drift wood or hardwoods such as Oak and Walnut. The creation of each Orkney chair by hand is two-and-a-half weeks of solid work for a skilled ...
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (1877-1959) 25 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
The Comet, 1938 link Cataclysm, 1906 Distemper and body colour on sturdy wove paper link
Clarence Hudson White (1871-1925) 25 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
A gum platinum print photograph of a semi-nude figure, 1910 The Royal Photographic Society National Media Museum, UK Clarence H. White and Alfred Stieglitz Experiment 27, Photogravure from Camera....
Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) 25 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
After the Concert. The artist's wife Nadezhda Zabiela-Vrubely by the Fireplace, in a dress designed by the Mikhail Vrubel, 1905 link
'Young Girl in dark Dress', 1905 25 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
Photo by Harold Mortimer-Lamb Library and Archives Canada
I just like the colours... 25 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
'Mother and Child', 1906 by Tibor Boromisza (1880-1960) link Two skeins handspun Alpaca blend yarn. The first is organically hand dyed and the second is all natural shades and left as the fleece i....
