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Winterlandschap met Schaatsers en Vogelknip (Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap) / Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

Let’s start this Christmas week with a copy of Pieter Bruegel’s Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap.

Hall of the Golden Hue, Hiraizumi / Hasui Kawase (1957)

Merry Winter Solstice 2025! And to mark it off, here’s a lovely woodcut by Hasui Kawase.

Stable / Kathleen Herbert (2007)

I think I first mentioned Kathleen Herbert’s Stable back in mid August when I posted the video for Melanie Manchot’s Cornered Star.

Cover art from a UK release of Neil Stephenson’s Quicksilver

Another one that (currently) doesn’t seem that easy to Google (even though it should be!)

Horned Owl / Utagawa Hiroshige (1830s-1840s)

Happy Autumn Equinox 2025!

If I’ve managed to get my timings right, then this post should go up just as we tick over into autumn.

Harland Miller at York Art Gallery

Some (sadly) rather late images from York Art Gallery’s Harland Miller summer exhibit.

Generally, I prefer the book covers to the larger letters however some of the larger letter works are also very good.

As always, click to embiggen.

Letters

York

Bizzarie di varie Figure / Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1624)

A fascinating set of images by Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s Bizzarie di varie Figure. They are, in some ways, much more modern than the 1624 production date suggests and good number of them would fit nicely in with the various art movements of the early to mid 20^th Century. Some also remind me of the creations that used to fill York’s Museum of Automata.