You may want to start your weekend by watching David Attenborough inspect facsimile prints of birds. The care with which the new edition has been produced fills me with joy, even though I have no desire to own one of the 780 copies nor can I imagine why anyone would want one.
The genius of these illustrations is only surpassed by the fact that they were created by Edward Lear, “known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry” (Wikipedia).
“Mackay’s masterwork sets out in crystalline and quotable prose how men and women throughout history have been hustled, scammed, bamboozled and willingly led astray by themselves or others.”
—Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds is available as a free ebook from @gutenberg_org
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“Charles Mackay's book … enjoys extraordinarily high renown in the financial industry and among the press and the public. It also has an extraordinarily low reputation among historians. […] Mackay’s story provides another example of a renowned expert on bubbles who decides that ‘this time is different.’”
—Andrew Odlyzko, SSRN, 26 Feb 2011
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“its power as a starter in crowd psychology comes from Mackay’s insistence on humanising the follies he describes. No macroeconomic constructs here – just good old greed, optimism, superstition & cunning plans”
—Charles Mackay (1814–1889) was born #OTD, 27 March – best remembered today for his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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View of Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador 1857 Frederic Edwin Church
#19thcentury, #Ecuador, #Landscape, #Mountains, #Scenery, #SouthAmerica, #Volcano, #Waterfall
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → https://bigplanetprints.com/go/smNalz
Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Landscape with wheat sheaves and rising moon (1889)
In museum: Kröller-Müller Museum, Ede, Otterlo, Netherlands.
Dimensions: height 73cm, width 92cm.
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”
Download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org
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“Without Fanny, there would be no Robert Louis Stevenson as we know him. He probably would not have written Treasure Island or finished Kidnapped, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde might well have been a different story from the one the world knows today.”
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https://lithub.com/how-fanny-and-robert-louis-stevenson-defied-victorian-relationship-conventions/
Frances Matilda Van de Grift was born #OTD, 10 March, 1840, in Indianapolis. An author in her own right, in 1880 she married Robert Louis Stevenson, a man ten years her junior.
Professor Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between them in their 1885 co-authored novel THE DYNAMITER: granting female agency on the page & in life
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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
Màiri Mhòr composed “Òran Beinn Lì” after tenants on Skye won back their grazing rights on Ben Lì & a reduction in rent – following “the Battle of the Braes” in 1882, where 50 police officers had fought with local crofters & arrested 5 men & 7 women
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https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/song-ben-li-cathy-ann/
“Her cartography of place is a peopled landscape … symbolic of the community & culture that she knew in her youth, & these personal and communal associations have a fervent emphasis in her songs”
—Priscilla Scott on the poetry of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/06/a-sense-of-place-in-the-poetry-of-mairi-mhor-nan-oran/
The 19th-century Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Vase with Peonies
Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Landscape with Olive Tree and Mountains in the Background
The Edinburgh & Borders of Sir Walter Scott & Muriel Spark
Prof Gerry Carruthers in 2024, looking at how both Walter Scott & Muriel Spark engage with the ideas of the Borders & of Edinburgh – reflecting the wider complexity of Scotland, the world & the human condition
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
