Burgundy Baron's Blog

The Four-Fifteen Express by Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892) A fantastic short story, first published in the Dec. 22, 1866 issue of  Every S...

Sphinx of Giza, partly under sand, with two pyramids in the background. by David Roberts (1796-1864) 1838 Roberts was an Orientalist pain...

The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) 1788, oil on canvas, 52.9" x 77.9"

Conversation by the Spring by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902) Oil on canvas laid on board, 21.26" x 39.37" Siemiradzki was a Pol...

The Light-house by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) A short story from the 1918 book,  Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others .

Untitled (landscape, boat moored near stream, man walking in foreground) by Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) 1879, oil on canvas, 14...

The End of Time by Wallace West (1900-1980) A fantastic science fiction short story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories . ...

Cider Pressing by George Henry Durrie (1820-1863) 1855, oil on canvas, 22.25" x 30.25" Durrie was an American painter, he was b...

Farmstead Under Clouds in Late Summer Light by Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen (1854–1920) oil on canvas, 29.13" x 41.73" Keller...

The Königssee in the Berchtesgadener Land by Carl Schultze (born 1856) oil on canvas, 29.5" x 38.2" Schultze was a German paint...

The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953) From the 1918 book of short stories about World War I, Tales ...

The Gate in the Old Town in Warsaw by Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901) 1883, oil on canvas, 25.1" × 19.2" Gierymski was a Polis...

A Michigan Man by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) First published in 1891 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine : volume XLVII.

The Rose, or the Performer's Tour by Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871) 1846-1847, Oil on Canvas, 85" x 52.7" Schwind was an Au...

Italian Mountain Landscape. Scene by the vicinity of Subiaco. by Anders Christian Lunde (1809–1886) Oil on Paper Mounted on Canvas, 12.9...