A London Salmagundi
A Hotch-pot or Gallimaufry of Divers Things
Seventeenth journey. The balloon Jean-Bart falling on an apple tree, at Montireau.
A. Tissandier, From Histoire de mes ascensions (Story of my balloon ascents), by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1880.
(Source: archive.org)
No. 85 Onrian from the series ‘One Hundred Scenes of Kyoto’. Batik picture on cotton. Path leading through bamboo to entrance of Onrian. Otsuki Ayako (大槻綾子), 1991. (via British Museum)
No. 6 Ninnaji from the series ‘One Hundred Scenes of Kyoto’. Batik picture on cotton. Ninnaji temple. Otsuki Ayako (大槻綾子), 1991. (via British Museum)
An English girl, one of 197 illustrations to the revised edition of the ‘Bab Ballads’, p 499, 1898; woman, with cricket bat. Drawn by: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (via British Museum)
The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook by The Women of General Foods Kitchens, photographs by George Lazarnick, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1959). (via my vintage book collection (in blog form).: In the shop…. cookbooks)
Bowl of fritware decorated in black and cobalt blue under a transparent glaze, found at Jurjan. Iran, probably Kashan, 1180-1220. (via V&A)
