Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Author: sarahbguestperry
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
Ceratodictyon spongiosum Zanard. Plate LI from Icones of Japanese algae. Kintaro Okamura, author. Published in 1911. Collections of and digitalizing sponsor the Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1251055#page/12/mode/1upMartensia elegans Hering. Plate LIII from Icones of Japanese algae. Kintaro Okamura, author. Published in 1911. Collections of and digitalizing sponsor the Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1251055#page/20/mode/1upHerpopteros Zonaricola Okam. Plate LV from Icones of Japanese algae. Kintaro Okamura, author. Published in 1911. Collections of and digitalizing sponsor the Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1251055#page/32/mode/1up
Pale green wallpaper with gold motifs. 1874. Image 23 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadowsWallpaper. 1874. Image 31 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadowsWallpaper. 1874. Image 35 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadowsWallpaper design with pink and white flowers. Wallpaper. 1874. Image 37 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadowsWallpaper with white flowers and mauve leaves.Wallpaper. 1874. Image 59 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadowsStar design wallpaper in red and green. Wallpaper with white flowers and mauve leaves.Wallpaper. 1874. Image 111 of R. C. Kedzie’s, Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers which was published in Lansing, Michigan by the State Board of Health. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
The album was in the collections of Winifred Bois. Winifred Bois was the daughter of Frederic William Bois, (1848-1921). Frederic was an amateur photographer who exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and whose family had held a prominent place in the mercantile life of Ceylon since the 1860s. Winifred traveled extensively in the Far East. She collected Chinese school watercolors.
The trellis window, Trentham Hall gardens; The seat of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland. Page 5 of Edward Adveno Brooke’s The Gardens of England which was published in 1858. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gardensEngland00Broo/page/n5/mode/1upThe lake Trentham Hall gardens; The seat of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland. Page 22 of Edward Adveno Brooke’s The Gardens of England which was published in 1858. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gardensEngland00Broo/page/n22/mode/1upThe terrace Trentham Hall gardens; The seat of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland. Page 24 of Edward Adveno Brooke’s The Gardens of England which was published in 1858. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gardensEngland00Broo/page/n24/mode/1upThe parterre Trentham Hall gardens; The seat of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland. Page 24 of Edward Adveno Brooke’s The Gardens of England which was published in 1858. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gardensEngland00Broo/page/5/mode/1up
Trentham Hall is an estate in Stoke-On-Trent in Staffordshire, England. It was one of the estates of the Duke of Sutherland. It was abandoned in 1905 after sewage and effluent from nearby potteries polluted the Trent River which fed the lake in the early 20th century, making life at the hall unpleasant. Most of it was demolished in 1912 but the gardens remain, probably not looking exactly like this.
Edward Adveno Brooke (1821–1910) appears to primarily have been a landscape painter who strayed into the realm of painting gardens.
Aneract Portatura of the Castle and Citty Batavia, lying on the great Ilant Java Anno 1669. Image 9310 from Arnoldus Montanus and John Ogilbie’s 1670 work Atlas Japannensis . . . Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p264101coll7/id/9310The Lodge before Nangasaki on the ? (name of island is not legible). Image 9329 from Arnoldus Montanus and John Ogilbie’s 1670 work Atlas Japannensis . . . Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p264101coll7/id/9329The city of Osacco. Image 9339 from Arnoldus Montanus and John Ogilbie’s 1670 work Atlas Japannensis . . . Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p264101coll7/id/9339Miako, (Honshu, Japan). Image 9346 from Arnoldus Montanus and John Ogilbie’s 1670 work Atlas Japannensis . . . Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p264101coll7/id/9346Tempel met Duysend Beelden. Image 9372 from Arnoldus Montanus and John Ogilbie’s 1670 work Atlas Japannensis . . . Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p264101coll7/id/9372Jedo. Image 9378 from Arnoldus Montanus and John Ogilbie’s 1670 work Atlas Japannensis . . . Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p264101coll7/id/9378
Title page. Page 2, Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. Anton Seder, author. Published in 1896 in Vienna by Gerlach and Schenk. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125013920190/page/n2/mode/1upPage 6, Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. Anton Seder, author. Published in 1896 in Vienna by Gerlach and Schenk. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125013920190/page/n6/mode/1upPage 8, Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. Anton Seder, author. Published in 1896 in Vienna by Gerlach and Schenk. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125013920190/page/n8/mode/1upPage 10, Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. Anton Seder, author. Published in 1896 in Vienna by Gerlach and Schenk. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125013920190/page/n10/mode/1up