![]() Location Currently not on view Credit Line Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1883 ID Number GA.14592 catalog number 14592 accession number 94830 Object Name Etching print Object Type Etching Physical Description paper (overall material) ink (overall material) Measurements image: 22.8 cm x 22.5 cm 9 in x 8 7/8 in plate: 41 cm x 29.9 cm 16 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in sheet: 48.1 cm x 34. Rajon etched Alma-Tadema’s paintings as well as his portrait. This print was intended not only for the European market but also for the United States, and it carries a U.S. Alma-Tadema, a Dutch-born painter of neoclassical pictures, enjoyed a considerable success on the Continent and decided to move to London where his work was enthusiastically appreciated from the 1860s to 1890s. He etched some original portraits, but most of his prints reproduced paintings by contemporary artists and old masters for publications. Rajon first visited England in 1873 to execute a commission. ![]() British and Foreign Artists' Association Description Paul Rajon etched the portrait of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) during one of his annual six-month visits to England. Sus dos hermanas mayores, Emily y Ellen, también se dedicaron a la pintura. Se crio en una familia de médicos con inquietudes artísticas. ![]() Known for evocative recreations of the ancient world, Alma-Tadema here represents Roman men and women of different ages enjoying a warm fall day. Tal día como hoy, el 16 de abril de 1852, nació en Londres la pintora británica Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, de soltera Epps. Object Details graphic artist Rajon, Paul-Adolphe publisher Knoedler & Co. Autumn (Scene in a Roman Garden) Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema British, born The Netherlands. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the children had bare bottoms and they laughed and laughed over that. Each animal that was taken in the house made the children laugh more and more and they couldn’t understand why you would do that. The children didn’t know what to make of this. I need space and having that many people in one room would drive me mad even if we were all well behaved. I get the lesson, but I don’t quite know if it’s true. I guess if things get worse and then better, you will better appreciate the better you had all along. It had to get worse before they could appreciate what they had. After putting the cow in the house, the Rabbi finally tells the father to take all the animals out and lo and behold, they have so much space and there is so much peace. He tells them to bring more and more animals into the house. The father goes to the rabbi for help and rabbi’s suggestions make things worse and worse each time he goes. A poor family in a one room house are driving each other crazy. What a lesson this book turned out to be. ![]() ![]() Jan Brett is also the creator of such wintery classics as The Hat, The Snowy Nap, The Three Snow Bears, The Animals' Santa, and The Night Before Christmas. In her distinctive style, Jan Brett brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax.Īs the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki's snowy outing in the borders of each page. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. Jan Brett’s beautiful retelling is a family favorite and the board book edition is the perfect gift for the youngest readers. ![]() In this bestselling modern classic, a young boy’s lost mitten leads to a charming snowy adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the direction to your listener, to your students. In one voice, you are getting information from the world out to your reader. What’s the difference in your voices, please?Ĭatherine: There’s a big difference in the voices and the most important thing I want to tell writers, especially those of you that have to explain technical information and you need an encyclopedic type of voice. So, let’s talk about that voice right from the start I’ve read your more, how should we say, science-y work and I’ve read this beautiful book. And I read that section three times to locate how you get the readers buy-in and acceptance of this utterly radical act and utterly prevent us from saying, “What?” And instead, we say to ourselves, “Oh yes, of course, you read him The Little Prince. ![]() All this happens by page five in the book. You pull out a copy of the classic book, The Little Prince, and you read to the fox. ![]() And here’s the part that made tears shoot into my eyes when I first read it. And one day, a mangy fox shows up and continues to show up around the same time each day. You built yourself a tiny cottage in an isolated part of Montana from which you taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park. I’m so happy to be here and you’re very welcome to my time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Michener-Copernicus Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, VQR, Conjunctions, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. In 2018 the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century." She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. ![]() ![]() The anti-hero of the story, Theodore Honey, is engaged in research on the fatigue of aluminium airframes. It formed the basis of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky. ![]() The story eerily foretold the structural failures that two 1950s BOAC Comets were subsequently to suffer. The story of a British aeronautical structural engineer who tries to convince the flight crew of a transatlantic airliner that its tail is in imminent danger of falling off. And it's possibly the best depiction I've seen of the way work doesn't wait until you're done with one thing to present you with another! Fun story, well-written (of course), worth reading and likely worth rereading in a couple years. ![]() It's an odd story from several angles - there's at least two protagonists on the airplane side, and two more on the romance side (oh yeah, there's a romance. Then the scientific facts (well, theories, at that point) run into personalities and politics and finances and on and on, and things get complicated. ![]() ![]() The investigation of technical matters relating to airplane safety - in this case, metal fatigue (very little understood at the time) leading to the tail of a particular type of aircraft literally falling off in the air - is the basis of the story not a subject I know anything about, but I understood the matter probably as well as the narrator did (he says, multiple times, that he's not able to truly understand it but he trusts the researcher who does). ![]() ![]() We meet Lucien Minor - known as Lucy - on the day he is leaving home, for the first time, at age 17. It has the feeling of someplace misty and Eastern European in the mid-19th century. Like a fairytale, this story takes place in no definitive time or location. This is more like a fairytale, something wispy and ephemeral, with a half-dreamy, half-nightmarish quality, and perhaps a bit of happily-ever-after thrown in. The book jacket suggests it’s a fable, but a fable has a moral. ![]() It’s sort of arch, breezy commentary, whether it’s coming from the thoughtful, well-spoken-but-naïve hired gun who narrates Sisters or from the third-person narrator of his latest novel, Undermajordomo Minor, which is as hard to categorize as his writing style. Anyone already familiar with Patrick DeWitt’s earlier fiction, like The Sisters Brothers, will immediately recognize his signature tone, which is easy to spot but hard to describe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl to communicate, Mary agrees. Three years after being kidnapped as a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, Mary Lambert has grown weary of domestic life on Martha's Vineyard, and even of her once beloved writing. "Mary seems set to become a true hero-adventurer, an almost larger-than-life sleuth, teacher, and woman of action and while the story’s subject matter is serious in its engagement with history’s ills, LeZotte conveys a sense of real enjoyment in having Mary disrupt…the prejudices and expectations of the status quo." - The Horn Book “Full of adventure and twists…a gripping tale of historical fiction.” - Booklist “Instantly captivating…will keep readers hooked until the very end…A simultaneously touching and gripping adventure.” - Kirkus Reviews ![]() A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian, Ann Clare LeZotte. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lost Executioner is a truly excellent and important book, by a writer who brings to the present an enviable command of Cambodia's past. ![]() ![]() ![]() (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR – BEST BOOK ON KHMER ROUGE) The Lost Executioner illuminates the darkness of recent Cambodian hisory and examines not only the banality of evil but also its ambiguity.Ī powerful account of Cambodia's history, both ancient and more recent. a vivid, highly personalised account of Dunlop’s quest for comrade Duch, the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer.Ĭompelling. (GUARDIAN – 3RD BEST BOOK ABOUT CAMBODIA)Ĭompelling reading. It is a tough and brilliant read' Irish TimesĪn example of a rare genre: An outstanding photographer who is also a talented writer.ĭunlop's book is empathic, intelligent and a real page-turner. 'Nic Dunlop's remarkable journey into the dark, suffering heart of Cambodia is a revelation' John Pilger 'Nic Dunlop's search for the holy grail - the understanding of how (rather than why) good men become evil - makes this into a harrowing book' Gitta Sereny 'Nic Dunlop's book, a vivid, highly personalised account of his quest for comrade Duch, the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer, interrogator and butcher, leads us deep into this ideological heart of darkness' Sunday Telegraph 'His book vividly depicts the war, the meticulous records kept by the KR of their victims, their horrible tortures and the effect of the tragedy on Cambodians today. ![]() ![]()
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