Category: 1800s

Coup-d’œil du Theatre de Besançon, 1804

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux :: Coup-d’œil du Theatre de Besançon (Das Auge des Architekten), Tafel 113 aus Ledoux, L’Architecture considérée […], Paris, 1804. © Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Das Museum für Fotografie präsentiert zwei parallele Ausstellungen zum ebenso brisanten wie aktuellen Thema Überwachung: “Watching You, Watching Me: A Photographic Response to Surveillance” und “Watched! Surveillance Art & Photography after 9/11” | src Blog Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

La mort (naufrage) de Virginie

Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais
Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais

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Naufrage de Virginie / Gravure de Barthélémy Joseph Fulcran Roger (1767 – 1841), d’après Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758 – 1823)
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Paul et Virginie. Paris: Pierre Didot l’Ainé, 1806.
Engraving after Prudhon. Luxury edition put together by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. | src Bonhams

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.