May 26, 2024
A. Touchet, ''Sakountalâ, d'après l'oeuvre indienne de Kalidasa'' by Franz Toussaint, 1922 Source
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A. Touchet, ''Sakountalâ, d'après l'oeuvre indienne de Kalidasa'' by Franz Toussaint, 1922 Source
Stefano della Bella – Scientist of the Day
Stefano della Bella, an Italian artist and engraver, was born May 18, 1610.
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Dedication page, The Golem, book by Gustav Meyrink, illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag, 1916. “Dedicated to my wife”
Happy Frontispiece Friday! We’re sending you off into the weekend with this striking image that introduces Jan Muys’s Praxis Medico-Chirurgica Rationalis, a work that contains observations on medicine and surgery. You can spy a few medical procedures in this crowded scene - the gentlemen in the foreground looks as if he’s lancing a blister or a boil, much to the patient’s dismay, while in the background, a lady is having blood let.
‘The Procession of the Queen of the Morning’, ''Story of A Dewdrop'' by John Ross Macduff, 1881 Source
George Wolfe Plank (1883-1965), ''-and Other Poets'' by Louis Untermeyer, 1916 Source
''Sea-fairies, and Other Poems'' by Alfred Tennyson, 1890 Source
Frederick Sandys (1832-1904), ''The Shaving of Shagpat'' by George Meredith, 1898 Source