Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Notes about Ernst Lotichius

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Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart , Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907–50...
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Millais in Melbourne

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The National Gallery of Victoria’s recent survey, Australian Impressionism , drew attention to the strong impact upon local portraiture in t...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The Piccadilly goat

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In a broadcast that went to air on Sunday, December 29, 1935, Max Beerbohm reminisced about the streets of Edwardian London. The original b...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Some thoughts about yellow

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The associations of the fascinating color of yellow, which before the 1960s suffered from curiously widespread twentieth-century unpopularit...
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Vale Earl and Countess of Hopetoun

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It was a consequence of accession of King Edward VII in 1901 that for the first time in several generations a king and queen consort, crowne...

“THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE RIGHT PLACE.”

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“ THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE RIGHT PLACE ” is the title of a vicious cartoon, one of the very first that was published in Melbourne Punch (Vol. ...

The reputation of the Duchess of Kent

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Until recently the incidence of haemophilia among descendants of Queen Victoria raised a most delicate medico-historical question. Queen Vic...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Telegrams

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I am old enough to remember the giddy pleasure of receiving a telegram. Countless millions under thirty probably have no idea what a telegra...
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