Morris is well known for taking inspiration from medieval European art, but perhaps less for his interest in historic textiles from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. This printed fabric shows that Morris also learnt from contemporary cottons imported from India, particularly in the strongly contrasting reds and blues, and the way the three-dimensional […]
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Bird and Anemone, William Morris for Morris & Co
Morris is well known for taking inspiration from medieval European art, but perhaps less for his interest in historic textiles from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. This printed fabric shows that Morris also learnt from contemporary cottons imported from India, particularly in the strongly contrasting reds and blues, and the way the three-dimensional […]
Wey, William Morris for Morris & Co
Morris is well known for taking inspiration from medieval European art, but perhaps less for his interest in historic textiles from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. This printed fabric shows that Morris also learnt from contemporary cottons imported from India, particularly in the strongly contrasting reds and blues, and the way the three-dimensional […]
Indian, William Morris for Morris & Co
Morris is well known for taking inspiration from medieval European art, but perhaps less for his interest in historic textiles from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. This printed fabric shows that Morris also learnt from contemporary cottons imported from India, particularly in the strongly contrasting reds and blues, and the way the three-dimensional […]
William Morris Alphabet
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. In the last decade of his life, Morris decided to learn a new craft. He set up a private press and became a book designer. […]
Poseidon riding a Hippocumpus, detail from Tarritoria Angelen et Schwansen, Blaeu Atlas Maior, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam 1665
Poseidon riding a Hippocumpus, detail from Tarritoria Angelen et Schwansen, Blaeu Atlas Maior, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam 1665 The Cosmographia Blaviana or Blaeu Atlas Maior was published in 1662-5. It is a splendid and one of the largest examples of the multi-volume Dutch world atlases. It contains 3,368 pages of texts and 594 maps and presents the […]
Battle at Sea, detail from Europae Map, Claudius Ptolemy, Atlas.
Battle at Sea, detail from Europae Map, Claudius Ptolemy, Atlas. 1584
A true and exact Hydrographical description of the Sea coast and Isles of Scotland
A true and exact Hydrographical description of the Sea coast and Isles of Scotland
The Bass Rock (detail), Theatrum Scotiae. John Sletzer, 1693
The Bass Rock (detail), Theatrum Scotiae. John Sletzer, 1693 Engraved views from the 17th century. ‘Theatrum Scotiae’ is a volume of detailed engravings by John Slezer, a military engineer . It gives a glimpse of what Scotland looked like over 300 years ago. More than 70 of Slezer’s original engravings from the National Library of Scotland’s collections […]
To a Mouse
To a Mouse ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ Robert Burns. This is the first collection of Burns’s work to appear in print. Published in Kilmarnock by John Wilson in 1786, it is known as ‘the Kilmarnock edition’. It includes the poems ‘Scotch drink’, ‘The Cotter’s Saturday night’, ‘To a mouse’ and ‘To a louse’. By […]
Madrigirls // Leaves of Life
Leaves of life, the latest album by The Glasgow University Madrigirls. Our new album includes loads of Madrigirls favourites, recorded over the past 2 years. Ideal Gift. Cover image originally entitled ‘The perfect form of a fruit tree’ is from The University of Glasgow’s extensive Special Collections. It can be found in a beautifully illustrated […]
kathryn joseph // the blood
cock and bone is all it took for my love to be mis put like a light out in the dark darker hole of darker heart like a load off in my mouth and un wanted after birth and i hear your babys here your babys here your babys hear your babies like a mouth […]
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Move in a circular fashion and spokes will appear in the wheels.
A small part of a larger work found in this marvellous and heavily illustrated encyclopaedia. The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in […]
