Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts

Monday, February 10, 2020

The Birds Were Asleep, Except for Old Solomon Caw (1912)

“Peter Pan,” illustrated by Frederick Richardson. Harriet Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, Second Reader, Adapted and Graded (Chicago: Row, Peterson, and Co., 1912),  173.

Monday, December 3, 2018

The Kiln at Dale Was Situated Just Outside the Abbey Gate-House (1890)

John Ward. “Notes on Encaustic Tiles, Dell Abbey and Morely, Derbyshire.” The Reliquary Quarterly 4 (Jan.–Oct. 1890): 220.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Thursday, June 30, 2016

This Is the Rook / Reading His Book (1862)

“The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin,” Routledge’s Nursery Picture Book (London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862), 28.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Pupils of Fawcett School, Panel with Swans (1921)

Keramic Studio: A Magazine for the Student of Design, China Painter and Potter 23 (April 1922): 214.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

In Decorative Design, Birds Are Favorite Motives (1900)

John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter S. Perry,  Teacher’s Manual Part IV for the Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Books 11–12, Eighth Year (Boston: The Prang Educational Company, 1900), 198.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Every Single One a Prehistoric Nightmare (1913)

Hamilton Mack Laing, Out with the Birds (New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1913), 187

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Head and Tail Pieces: No. 2904, $1.25 (1888)

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1888): cut 2094.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Cuts Are Sent by Mail Pre-Paid on Receipt of List Price (1888)

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1888): cuts 1649, 1842, and 1843.


Thursday, June 2, 2016

Both Start like Lightning from the Fist (1886)

E.B. Michell, “Modern Falconry,” Illustrated by George E. Lodge, The English Illustrated Magazine 3 (July 1886): 661.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

When Lighthouses, on Rocks and Headlands, Showed Solitary and Watchful; And Benighted Sea-Birds Breasted on against Their Ponderous Lanterns and Fell Dead (1891)

Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time, Illustration by C. Stanfield, R.A. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891), 14.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

The Swan Was Seized by the Pike and Both Were Found Dead (1899)

R.B. Marston, “Big Pike Stories,” Illustrated by C. Whymper and A. Barraud, The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 2 (February to July 1899): 223.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Winter (1877)

G.H. Boughton, Winter, “Contemporary Art in England,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 54 (January 1877): 161.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Caught (1871)

Cassell's Illustrated Almanac for 1871. (London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1871).