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.
January in Bavaria. The drafts so bad all the hot tea in the world barely warms anyone up.
But home. Years in Africa bouncing around country to country wherever the foreign office says. The Pacific after with the same effect. A treat. One’s home country and own language. Funny. So many dialects heard but the other never forgotten.
Husband napping and the children coming later. Daughter to make the sauerbraten. English, her family is, with the others still in Italy. One country they all were once but spread out all over now like bees swarming out of a hive. The wars and everything rearranged. Places needing to be gotten out of and going wherever they will give you a visa even if it’s hotter than a Finnish sauna in mid-winter or so cold only a polar bear could smile.
But journals at the end of the bookcase shelf to help remember it all with. Photo after photo with the best at the end. First husband and honeymooning at his grandfather’s estate in Poland. Being a bride and a walk down the lane . . .umbrellas but no rain that day. . . no . . .sun and country air and a joy in being together . . . mind gone in the first war and it never came back but no way to know that then . . . a blessing . .
Pigeon. February 3, 1907. Danish. oil on canvas. Niels Peter Rasmussen, painter (1847-1918). Date and monogram Søndag (Sunday) 3. Febr. 1907 “NPR” on the upper left. Image source bruun-rasmussen.dk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niels_Peter_Rasmussen_-Due-_1907.png
Gravand liggende i græsset.. July 12, 1906. Danish. Oil on cardboard. Niels Peter Rasmussen, painter (1847-1918). Inscribed with a monogram, location and date NPR” Viborg 12 Juli 1906 on the lower right. Image source bruun-rasmussen.dk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niels_Peter_Rasmussen_-Gravand_liggende_i_gr%C3%A6sset-_1906.pngSkægmejse siddende på en kvist. May 20m 1916. Danish. Oil on cardboard. Niels Peter Rasmussen, painter (1847-1918). Inscribed with a monogram and the date on the bottom left: “NPR” 20 Mai 1916. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niels_Peter_Rasmussen_-_Sk%C3%A6gmejse_siddende_p%C3%A5_en_kvist.pngTre gråspurve venter på edderkoppen. December, 1902. Oil on canvas. . Niels Peter Rasmussen, painter (1847-1918). Monogram and date bottom right: “NPR” Decb 1902. Image source bruun-rasmussen.dk. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niels_Peter_Rasmussen_-Tre_gr%C3%A5spurve_venter_p%C3%A5_edderkoppen-_1902.png
Colours with white. Plate VIII, page 51, view 88 of M. E. Chevreul’s work The laws of contrast of colour with the plates engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/page/n88/mode/1upPlate XIII showing the modifications which black designs undergo upon different colored grounds. Page 120, image 120 of M. E. Chevreul’s work The laws of contrast of colour with the plates engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/page/120/mode/1upIn reference to colours for paper-hangings and borders. Plate XIV, page 123, image 170 of M. E. Chevreul’s work The laws of contrast of colour with the plates engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/page/n170/mode/1upDesigns for the borders of paper-hangings. Plate XV, Page 124, view 174 of M. E. Chevreul’s work The laws of contrast of colour with the plates engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/page/n174/mode/1upOrnaments for borders. Plate XVI, page 130, view 182 of M. E. Chevreul’s work The laws of contrast of colour with the plates engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/page/n182/mode/1upExample of the effect of two colours, red and green. Plate XVII, Page 131, view 186 of M. E. Chevreul’s work The laws of contrast of colour with the plates engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/lawsofcontrastof00chev/page/n186/mode/1up
Angels Entertaining the Holy Child. 1893. Austrian/English. Oil on canvas. Marianne Stokes, artist (1855-1927). Image source: Christies. In the public domain in the Unites States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Stokes#/media/File:Marianne_Stokes_-Angels_Entertaining_the_Holy_Child(1893).jpgThe Queen and the Page. 1896. Austrian/English. Oil on canvas. Marianne Stokes, artist (1855-1927). Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marianne_Stokes_-The_Queen_and_the_Page(1896).jpgMarianne Stokes. 1855-1927. Mélisande. 1895. Austrian/English. Marianne Stokes, artist (1855-1927). Collections of the Cologne Wallraf Richartz Museum. Fair use license due to age. via https://www.flickr.com/photos/mazanto/28471920340