A Little More Web Kipple
Ogata Gekkō‘s Rat on Mallet (1900s-1910s).
Apparently rats are a symbol of good luck. Though this image of the print comes from the British Museum’s digital collection, I actually first saw Rat on Mallet as part of York Art Gallery’s Making Waves: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Print exhibit.
A lovely poster from the Science Museum Group; British Railways Locomotives from around 1956.
Poking around the Science Museum’s archives, I came across this rather fabulous ‘Dick Turpin’ themed LNER poster for train travel to York.
Just look at how wonderful it is!
Sadly rather late, but here is another entry in the ongoing TopperBlog series. This topper could be found on Malton’s Yorkersgate in the run up to Christmas 2025. t was a pretty thing though, alas, my photographs appear to have blown out the red – I’ll have to try and figure out why.
Here’s something to take the edge off that liminal space between Christmas and New Year; two nicely illustrated articles from Adam Rowe’s always fun 70s Sci-Fi Art.
First we have Trains of the Future…
…and then Trains of the Past.
Ethel Walker’s Robin Hood’s Bay in Winter.It seems to be on permanent exhibition at York Art Gallery and, I must note, looks better in person.
Alfred Stieglitz’s Winter on Fifth Avenue. This was, apparently, one of the first times that driving snow had been photographed.
From Harvard Art Museum’s collection.
*Probably. Apparently there’s a little confusion around dates.
Paul Nash’s Winter Sea. Painted between 1925 and 1937.
Let’s start this Christmas week with a copy of Pieter Bruegel’s Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap.
Merry Winter Solstice 2025! And to mark it off, here’s a lovely woodcut by Hasui Kawase.
