Literature Pick #100

The Last of the Legions
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
First published in the December 1910 issue of The London Magazine, and here republished in the 1925 short story collection The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago.

Katsushika Hokusai artwork

Lake Suwa in Shinano Province
by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
First publication: circa 1830. This edition: circa 1930.
Woodblock color print

Edward John Poynter painting

Funchal, Morning Sun
by Edward John Poynter (1836–1919)
1877, watercolor

Nikolay Dubovskoy painting

Calm Before the Storm
by Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy (1859-1918)
1890, oil on canvas, 30.1" × 50.4"
Russian landscape painter, he was born in Novocherkassk, Russia

Jean Jacques François Taurel painting

Artists Approaching Paestum from the Sea
by Jean Jacques François Taurel (1757-1832)
1793, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Lusieri painting

The Monument to Philopappos, Athens
by Giovanni Battista Lusieri
1805, oil on canvas, 32.48" x 24.49"
Lusieri was an Italian landscape artist, he was born in Rome.

Govert Dircksz Camphuysen painting

Castle Tre Kronor in Stockholm
by Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (1624-1672)
1661
Dutch painter, born in Dokkum, Friesland.

Salomon van Ruysdael painting

Estuary by Fortified City
by Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602-1670)
1648
Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter; he was born in Naarden, Holland.

James Pollard painting

Hatchetts - The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly.
by James Pollard (1792–1867)
oil on canvas, 17.9" × 26"
Pollard was a British painter, he was born in Islington.

Luigi Deleidi painting

Piazza Vecchia
by Luigi Deleidi (1784-1853)
Deleidi was an Italian landscape artist, he was born in the city of Bergamo.

Literature Pick #99

On the French Shore of Cape Breton
by Harry James Smith
An account of life in the small Nova Scotian village of Arichat, first published in 1908, and here included the the book Cape Breton Tales.

Théodore Géricault painting

Two Horses
 by Théodore Géricault (1791–1824)
circa 1808-1809, oil on canvas, 0.4" x 0.63"
A Romantic painter who was born in Rouen, France.

Peter Gertner painting

Crucifixion
by Peter Gertner
1537, oil on panel, 27.1" × 38.1"
Gertner was a German painter.

Thomas Fearnley paintings

Duck Hunter
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
Oil on paper mounted on panel, 12.6" × 16.5"
Fearnley was a Norwegian romantic painter. He was born in Frederikshald, Østfold county, Norway

 

Tjugum Church, Balestrand
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1839, oil on canvas, 10.4" × 13"

 

From Romsdal
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1836, oil on cardboard, 11" × 15.2 "

 

The Labro Falls at Kongsberg
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1837, oil on canvas, 59.1" × 88.2"

Rudolf von Alt paintings

View of Salzburg
by Rudolf von Alt (1812-1905)
1897, watercolor on paper, 21.73" x 37.48"
von Alt was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter.

View of Klosterneuburg
by Rudolf von Alt
1890, watercolor on paper, 8.66" x 8.66"

Altaussee Lake and Face of Mount Trissel
by Rudolf von Alt
1839, watercolor on paper, 10.47" x 14.37"