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Discomforts of an Epicure, 1787 (image 27 x 20 cm, in mat 43 x 33 cm) [1]. This is a descriptive list of erotic etchings and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, based upon the research of Henry Spencer Ashbee published in his three-volume bibliography of curious and uncommon books: Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (1879) and Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885).
Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as hairy balls, balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant, [2] is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae, related to the milkweeds. The plant is native to southeast Africa, but it has been widely naturalized as it is often used as an ornamental plant.
Curt Swan was born in Minneapolis [3] on February 17, 1920, [4] the youngest of five children. Swan's Swedish grandmother had shortened and Americanized the original family name of Svensson. [citation needed] Father John Swan worked for the railroads; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson [5] had worked in a local hospital. [6]
Brush and pencil on paper 14 × 22 cm Las Vegas: Private collection: Untitled (Female Head) 1936 Pen and black ink on light cream wove paper 50.01 cm x 31.75 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [24] Teeny: 1938 Linoleum block print on paper 30.3 cm x 22.7 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [25] Romanian Blouse
The therapy significantly improved the painter's health. On one of the drawings made in the clinic, Vrubel wrote: "To my dear and esteemed Fedor Arsenievich from the resurrected Vrubel". [163] Portrait of Doctor Fiodor Usoltsev against icon, 1904. One of the most significant parts of preserved Vrubel's legacy is pencil drawings.
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The swan was "cemented in the imagination as a creature of romance for a whole generation of impressionable working class suburban kids". The anthropomorphic projection may not have been entirely random; [2] swans are believed to take a mate for life, and the graceful white birds might symbolize monogamous felicity. [2]
Hypocalymma robustum, commonly known as Swan River myrtle, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, multistemmed shrub or shrublet with linear to narrowly oblong leaves and pink flowers arranged in pairs in leaf axils, with 35 to 60 stamens .