Portraits from Russia of Praskovya Sheremeteva (1768-1803). Born a serf she had a wonderful voice and became an opera singer. Married a count, too.
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.
Plates of flowers that are half way between botanical prints and pochoir prints which came along a little later. From Anton Seder’s “Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe” which was published in Vienna in around 1886 by Martin Gerlach. These from Volume I of 2.
Animals, these by Austrian artist Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (1881-1965). Also worked as a designer at the Wiener Werkstätte.
An envisioning . . . .villa up the coast from Helsinki in a 1952 winter with dusk closing in.
Oh to be here.
Tea and a blazing fire with the maid about to open a box of cookies back in the kitchen. Well, only three boxes left but more to come as soon as a grandchild comes to visit from England. An entire second suitcase filled each time and that enough to last until Christmas or maybe next June depending on how many young people there are to help eat them up.
Helsinki more fun what with its theatres and all but a husband lost and a need to economize. Funny. Lived through all that excitement in Saint Petersburg and sneakings out after that man made the tsar die, only to have a spasm and collapse eating mushrooms that turned out to be the poison kind and not the sort to fry up in a little frying pan with sherry.
But the quiet nice, too. So many years with babies to take care of and not enough time to sit and read let alone sit and think. . . .a long way back .. . only time to think and not have to take care of anybody . . . an album tucked away and a memory in flood . . . science class and everyone with a long braid down their backs instead of grown up lady things. . . . time and all the energy in the world . . . .the energy gone but all the time in the world to remember from before it all got gone.
Plates signed by Agostino Tensini from the calligraphy manual “La uera regola dello scriuere : utile à giouani.” Published in 1680 and then around 1800. This copy having been signed by Giacomo Formento and dated 1789, it would appear to be the 1680 edition.
Flowers of the American West. A selection of plates from the 1915 “Field book of western wild flowers” which was written by Margaret Armstrong in collaboration with John James Thornber who was a professor of botany in Arizona.
Down to the water with American realist painter Stephen Etnier. Living from 1903 to 1984, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
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