Consequently, instead of trying to prove or disprove Parr’s date of birth, contemporary accounts focused on answering two questions: why did Parr live so long, and why did he die…

Originally published as a three-sheet lithograph in scroll form in 1917 (and subsequently as a reduced-size single sheet circa 1920, the version we are featuring here), the Anciente Mappe of…

“Writing, in the earliest ages of the world, was a delineation of the outlines of those things men wanted to remember, rudely graven either upon shells or stones, or marked…

Though the introductory texts and excerpted reviews of El arte peruano generally reference “Inca art”, the majority of its designs were inspired by works from other, earlier cultures. A parade…

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This grandiose introduction is offered by the protagonist of George Wightwick’s Palace of Architecture: A Romance of Art and History (1840). The reader, an imagined visitor referred to in the…

No matter that a headless tribe of people never existed, their inclusion in ancient histories made them popular fodder for later bestiary and travelogue traditions. Beginning with their appearance in…

Anybody who grew up with Shari Lewis’ Lamb Chop, Fred Rogers’ King Friday XIII, or Jim Henson’s Muppets will surely feel that they have entered a more expansive puppet realm…

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