Images Dated 22nd February 2019

I Will Sing You a Song Though Its Not Very Long - Victorian nursery rhyme illustration

A medieval lady seated at an organ is singing a rather cruel song with a group of smug-looking children while a boy laboriously pumps the wind into the instrument, looking thoroughly miserable, no doubt thinking he is the boy in question.
"I will sing you a song though it's not very long - Of the wood-cock and the sparrow - Of the little dog that burned his tail - And the little boy that must be whipt to-morrow."
From "Nursery Rhymes - Ridicula Rediviva" illustrated by J.E. Rogers, with chromolith printing by R. Clay Sons & Taylor and published in London in 1876 by Macmillan and Co

China Clay - The Monk

China Clay - The Monk. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration. From the middle of the 1920s, she moved on from earlier highly-decorative fairy art to produce beautiful monotone woodcuts in a distinctly oriental style. This artwork (as seen here) was produced under the name Molly MacArthur, or F.M. MacArthur. Monk Ming-Kiang sits behind his bamboo screen listening to the sounds of the world outside invading his quiet world leaving him pondering whether he has made the correct choices in life.
1922

© The Florence Mary Anderson Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

South America, Colombia, Cauca, Popayan, view of the colonial city center of Popayan

South America, Colombia, Cauca, Popayan, view of the colonial city center of Popayan showing the cathedral and Caldas Park
(Parque Caldas)

© Alex Robinson/ AWL-Images Ltd

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