Using a simple method of inking both sides of a specimen and pressing between folded paper, Joseph Breintnall’s leaf prints show Philadelphia’s local natural beauty. This page from his two volume album has a few feathers in the mix, or are the leaves fallen from birds?
Carved coral, nephrite, hardstone, diamond, and gilt wild strawberries in a rock crystal vase on a jasper plinth (at Christie’s)
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The Devil’s Handwriting
The image above was reproduced by John Ashton (1896) in his book called “The Devil in Britain and America” but is originally taken from a book by Albonesi called “Introductio in Chaldaicam linguam, Syriacam atque Armenicam et decem alias linguas characterum differentium alphabeta circiter quadraginta et eorundem invicem conformatio“
The image is allegedly the result of Ludovico Spoletano conjuring the devil to ask it a question. Spoletano claims that a strange force took the pen, which seemed suspended in the air, and rapidly wrote what is facsimiled. Spoletano the handed the writing over to Albonesi who was unable to decipher it. In fact no one has been able to decipher the text to this day.
Here are screenshots of the text surrounding the Devil’s Handwriting in case you guys were curious.
Best tie and dye work for this shibori kimono depicting sasa (bamboo) over a faint lattice ground (the color play must truly be something irl!). OP is a genius because they paired it with this nice ryuusui (running water) haori, which should not work considering the dyeing styles differences, yet it WORKS!
