Happy Summer Solstice 2025! And to celebrate, here’s Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men by the Sea from 1817 showing the 1816 Year Without a Summer.
Two Men by the Sea / Caspar David Friedrich (1817)
Tag: Art
The 185th Anniversary of the York Minster Fire of 1840
It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!
Sandsend, Yorkshire / Thomas Girtin (1802)
The old bridge at Sandsend, painted in 1802 by Thomas Girtin. Image taken from Yale Center for British Art’s catalogue.
View of Heath Street by Night / Atkinson Grimshaw (1882)
A somewhat moody piece for these dark December nights – Atkinson Grimshaw‘s View of Heath Street by Night.
Visit York Art Gallery
The autumn trailer for York Art Gallery. The William Morris exhibit looks like it should be interesting.
Autumn Fattens Fish and Ripens Wild Fruits / Takeuchi Seiho (1925)
1925’s Autumn Fattens Fish and Ripens Wild Fruits by Takeuchi Seihō (1864-12-20 to 1942-08-23)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Concept Art / NASA (1973)
A lovely spot of concept art from what became July 1975’s Apollo–Soyuz mission.
Via NASA.
Current Mood
Right now, a foot or so of snow – and the deep quiet that it would bring with it – feel tremendously attractive.
Overrated Cornwall – Anti-adverts for England’s most westerly county
‘Words inspired by the bad Tripadvisor reviews of the beautiful coastline.’
The Jetty Street Press
‘Overrated Cornwall‘ is a set of anti-advertisement posters for one of my favourite British regions. Base off some truly terrible TripAdvisor reviews, they are firm proof that there is always someone, somewhere that’s terribly wrong in what they think.
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All of Radiohead’s OK Computer. At once. Together. On top. Overlaid.