Mont Saint-Michel

“Le Mont par temps d’equinoxe”

Photograph by Yvon

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George Edwards, Three Bats

This is one of sixteen copper plates added, by way of appendix, to A Natural History of Birds (1751).

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(After) A. Coppola, Paestum – Sunset

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Michelangelo, DAVID

Photograph: Edizioni Brogi From the Collection of the Blogger

Martha Argerich’s Hands

Photograph by Marco Anelli (Rome)

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Ornithology

Garrulax perspicillatus

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Heterornis sericea

Published in Volume II of:

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore [Matthew Calbraith] Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States (1856)

Plates from the Collection of the Blogger

Tchaikovsky

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"Descent of the Matterhorn….The Tragical Result."

Published in Demorest’s Monthly Magazine (ca. 1867)

Ben Stahl, Untitled and Undated

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Lulu und Fidor

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