Depiction of hypothesis — orbits of stars “all moving the same way”."
“The satellite Systems, proportionable to one another.”
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection”.
Amalia van Solms, wife of Frederick Henry, from Nine Portraits
Albumen silver print of ornamental lathe turning
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)
Girl's Head; Peasant Girl at Window; Anders Zorn
Willow mallow seed (Vol. 3)
"Coloured rings", mezzotint with watercolour by René Henri Digeon, after an image by J. Silberman; plate VII in Le monde physique (1882).
Cupid Shooting Arrows at the World Globe
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Ex-libris
Lilac
Crystallized Oxide of Zinc (Zincum oxygenizatum)
Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge Yorkshire
“A representation of a solar System.” (Wright makes no mention in his text of the orouboros encircling the diagram.)
“- I would have bet on it… instead of taking him to see Séraphin you take him to a drama.... it's bad enough for adults already, poor little thing!... - Don't worry Madame, this is the way children are enjoying themselves,” plate 34 from Moeurs Conjugales
Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
Illustration from Agnes Giberne's The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
Blackboard sketch by Whitney
Depiction of hypothesis — orbits of stars “all moving the same way”."
“The satellite Systems, proportionable to one another.”
“The Sun and Moon in the just Proportion of their mean Diameters, with two of the Comets A and B, and the five erratick Planets, as they are observed at the Earth, in a middle State of their Distances from it.”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
Ruins of a Castle
Plowing
Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection”.
Lake of Uri and Brunnen, from Picturesque Selections
Verbena
watercolor geometrical illustration
Amalia van Solms, wife of Frederick Henry, from Nine Portraits
A chart from 1746 by Jacques-Fabien Gautier illustrating his theory that the primary colours are black and white, with red, yellow, and blue being secondary. Colours were thought to be drawn out of the shadows by the presence of light - Source.
Albumen silver print of ornamental lathe turning
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Max Brückner’s Collection of Polyhedral Models (1900)
Girl's Head; Peasant Girl at Window; Anders Zorn
Vignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita
Specimens of stone and volcanic matter found on Mount Vesuvius, including lava enclosed in marble
Imaginary Section of an “artificial Horizon of a Globe”, with “all the stars scattered promiscuously”.
Willow mallow seed (Vol. 3)
“A centeral Section of the same [the intire Creation], with the Eye of Providence seated in the Center, as in the virtual Agent of Creation.”
"Coloured rings", mezzotint with watercolour by René Henri Digeon, after an image by J. Silberman; plate VII in Le monde physique (1882).
Watercolour blob
Cupid Shooting Arrows at the World Globe
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Nebuleuse de la Lyre
Depiction of hypothesis — “local Motion of the Sun, the Earth in her proper secondary Orbit”.
Ex-libris
Hold Fast
Lilac
Crystallized Oxide of Zinc (Zincum oxygenizatum)
Plate 60, Volume 3 – Source
“The Pleides , a well known Knot of Stars in the Sign Taurus , as they appeared to me thro’ a one Foot reflecting Telescope.”
Pandy Mill, Church Pool, and one other subject, from Picturesque Selections
Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge Yorkshire
“A representation of a solar System.” (Wright makes no mention in his text of the orouboros encircling the diagram.)
“- I would have bet on it… instead of taking him to see Séraphin you take him to a drama.... it's bad enough for adults already, poor little thing!... - Don't worry Madame, this is the way children are enjoying themselves,” plate 34 from Moeurs Conjugales
At the Moor
Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
Return Walk, plate four from Suite de Divers Habillements de Peuples du Nord
The climax of Hubert Airy's image of his scintillating scotomata, reproduced in P. W. Latham's On Nervous or Sick-Headache (1873) — Source
Illustration from Agnes Giberne's The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
Blackboard sketch by Whitney
“The Sun and Moon in the just Proportion of their mean Diameters, with two of the Comets A and B, and the five erratick Planets, as they are observed at the Earth, in a middle State of their Distances from it.”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Ruins of a Castle
Plowing
Lake of Uri and Brunnen, from Picturesque Selections
Verbena
watercolor geometrical illustration
A chart from 1746 by Jacques-Fabien Gautier illustrating his theory that the primary colours are black and white, with red, yellow, and blue being secondary. Colours were thought to be drawn out of the shadows by the presence of light - Source.
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Vignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita
Specimens of stone and volcanic matter found on Mount Vesuvius, including lava enclosed in marble
Imaginary Section of an “artificial Horizon of a Globe”, with “all the stars scattered promiscuously”.
“A centeral Section of the same [the intire Creation], with the Eye of Providence seated in the Center, as in the virtual Agent of Creation.”
Watercolour blob
Nebuleuse de la Lyre
Depiction of hypothesis — “local Motion of the Sun, the Earth in her proper secondary Orbit”.
Hold Fast
Plate 60, Volume 3 – Source
“The Pleides , a well known Knot of Stars in the Sign Taurus , as they appeared to me thro’ a one Foot reflecting Telescope.”
Pandy Mill, Church Pool, and one other subject, from Picturesque Selections
At the Moor
Return Walk, plate four from Suite de Divers Habillements de Peuples du Nord
The climax of Hubert Airy's image of his scintillating scotomata, reproduced in P. W. Latham's On Nervous or Sick-Headache (1873) — Source
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