New Old Time

Victorian beekeeper in period clothing and veil tending traditional straw skep hives in a cottage garden in spring, flowering fruit trees and wildflowers, bee swarm in the air, warm golden afternoon light, English countryside 1870s

Brehms Tierleben: The Encyclopedia That Taught ...

Between 1863 and 1884, Alfred Edmund Brehm published Brehms Tierleben — Brehm's Animal Life — a ten-volume zoological encyclopedia that became the most widely read natural history work in the...

Brehms Tierleben: The Encyclopedia That Taught ...

Between 1863 and 1884, Alfred Edmund Brehm published Brehms Tierleben — Brehm's Animal Life — a ten-volume zoological encyclopedia that became the most widely read natural history work in the...

Victorian glasshouse interior with camellia shrubs in full bloom, a Victorian lady in a dark dress and white gloves examining a deep red camellia flower, warm light filtering through iron and glass, English estate 1830s

The Camellia Craze: How a Chinese Flower Conque...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the camellia was the most coveted flower in Britain — a Chinese import that had taken the aristocracy by storm, filling the...

The Camellia Craze: How a Chinese Flower Conque...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the camellia was the most coveted flower in Britain — a Chinese import that had taken the aristocracy by storm, filling the...

Wild narcissus in bloom on the rolling hills of Le Marche in spring, with a hilltop town visible in the soft-focus distance — the landscape painted by Gherardo Cibo in the 1560s

Gherardo Cibo and the Botanical Landscape: Plan...

Every botanical illustrator of the Renaissance painted plants against a blank background — isolated, precise, and removed from the world they grew in. Gherardo Cibo did something no one else...

Gherardo Cibo and the Botanical Landscape: Plan...

Every botanical illustrator of the Renaissance painted plants against a blank background — isolated, precise, and removed from the world they grew in. Gherardo Cibo did something no one else...

Vintage Art Déco travel poster illustration of the New York City skyline from the water — Empire State Building and Chrysler Building in bold geometric forms, deep blue, gold and orange palette, ocean liner in the foreground, 1930s poster style

The Art of Going Somewhere: Travel Posters and ...

Between the 1890s and the 1960s, the travel poster was one of the most sophisticated and widely distributed art forms in the world — bold colours, geometric forms, and the...

The Art of Going Somewhere: Travel Posters and ...

Between the 1890s and the 1960s, the travel poster was one of the most sophisticated and widely distributed art forms in the world — bold colours, geometric forms, and the...

The Owls Serenade sheet music by H.W. Petrie 1894 on the music stand of a dark mahogany Victorian parlour piano, warm candlelight, shallow depth of field

The Owl in Victorian Culture: From Ancient Wisd...

The owl has been a symbol of wisdom, mystery, and the night for as long as human beings have looked up at the dark. But it was in the Victorian...

The Owl in Victorian Culture: From Ancient Wisd...

The owl has been a symbol of wisdom, mystery, and the night for as long as human beings have looked up at the dark. But it was in the Victorian...

Art Déco Parisian salon in 1925 with Raoul Dufy's Panorama de Paris decorative screen as centrepiece, Art Déco armchairs, silk floor lamp, tall windows and a vase of peonies on a side table

Raoul Dufy and the Art of Parisian Joy

Raoul Dufy painted the world as it felt at its best — vivid, fluid, and full of light. His 1925 Panorama de Paris, with its Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Cœur wreathed...

Raoul Dufy and the Art of Parisian Joy

Raoul Dufy painted the world as it felt at its best — vivid, fluid, and full of light. His 1925 Panorama de Paris, with its Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Cœur wreathed...