New Old Time

Young boy reading a dinosaur illustration book in a 1940s library, warm lamp light, wooden bookshelves in the background, nostalgic postwar atmosphere

The Dinosaur Book: Colbert, Germann and the Vis...

In 1945, the American Museum of Natural History published a book that would shape how an entire generation imagined the prehistoric world. Written by palaeontologist Edwin H. Colbert and illustrated...

The Dinosaur Book: Colbert, Germann and the Vis...

In 1945, the American Museum of Natural History published a book that would shape how an entire generation imagined the prehistoric world. Written by palaeontologist Edwin H. Colbert and illustrated...

Enlightenment natural history cabinet shelves with mineral and gemstone specimens, each with a small handwritten paper label pinned with brass tacks, warm candlelight, 18th century cabinet of curiosities

Swebach-Desfontaines and the Art of Illustrated...

In 1789 — the year the Bastille fell — a self-taught French artist named Swebach-Desfontaines published a series of mineralogy plates that attempted something quietly ambitious: to make the mineral...

Swebach-Desfontaines and the Art of Illustrated...

In 1789 — the year the Bastille fell — a self-taught French artist named Swebach-Desfontaines published a series of mineralogy plates that attempted something quietly ambitious: to make the mineral...

Three Victorian young women in white Regency dresses and straw hats taking afternoon tea in an English cottage garden, fruit cake and teacups on the table, golden afternoon light

Kate Greenaway and the Victorian World of Child...

In 1879, Kate Greenaway's Under the Window sold 70,000 copies in its first edition and created an image of childhood the Victorian world immediately recognised as its own ideal —...

Kate Greenaway and the Victorian World of Child...

In 1879, Kate Greenaway's Under the Window sold 70,000 copies in its first edition and created an image of childhood the Victorian world immediately recognised as its own ideal —...

Nocturnal study desk with Van Gogh ink sketch and Café Terrace at Night reproduction, reed pen, inkwell and candlelight evoking Arles 18880 LeBonJournal

The Sketch and the Painting: How Van Gogh Built...

In September 1888, Van Gogh sat outside a café in Arles with a reed pen and drew what he saw — before he ever picked up a brush. The ink...

The Sketch and the Painting: How Van Gogh Built...

In September 1888, Van Gogh sat outside a café in Arles with a reed pen and drew what he saw — before he ever picked up a brush. The ink...

Terracotta vase with twelve sunflowers in various stages of bloom on worn wooden artist table in sun-drenched Provençal studio with cadmium yellow oil paint tubes wooden palette paintbrushes and canvas on easel

Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: Van Gogh, Cadmium ...

In August 1888, Vincent van Gogh painted Vase with Twelve Sunflowers in Arlés — one of the most celebrated still lifes in the history of art, and one of the...

Vase with Twelve Sunflowers: Van Gogh, Cadmium ...

In August 1888, Vincent van Gogh painted Vase with Twelve Sunflowers in Arlés — one of the most celebrated still lifes in the history of art, and one of the...

Teenage girl in cream sweater sitting cross-legged on floor assembling Van Gogh Sunflowers jigsaw puzzle on low coffee table with steaming mug in warm cosy living room with grey sofa and yellow cushions

The Sunflowers of Arlés: Van Gogh, the Yellow H...

In the summer of 1888, Vincent van Gogh was alone in Arlés, in a rented house he had painted yellow, waiting for Paul Gauguin. To decorate the room he had...

The Sunflowers of Arlés: Van Gogh, the Yellow H...

In the summer of 1888, Vincent van Gogh was alone in Arlés, in a rented house he had painted yellow, waiting for Paul Gauguin. To decorate the room he had...