Before we subscribed to Netflix a couple of years ago, it had been decades since I had seen a complete version of Georges Méliès’ influential La Voyage dans la lune, also known as A Trip to the Moon (1902). The short…
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If you’ve spent time around artists, museums, or artwork in general, you have probably heard the term “inpainting.” Simply put, inpainting is a process that reconstructs deteriorated portions of a painting or image. The term can be also be used…
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The 2016 presidential election seems the most contentious of my lifetime. The amount of cognitive dissonance and outright hypocrisy among supporters of the front runners is, well, staggering. My fellow Americans seem unable or unwilling to shake off the shackles…
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Allegorical bronze figure of Fame by Hyacinth Phileas Sobre (French, 1826-1902) Virgil wrote of her Roman equivalent, Fama, having “her feet on the ground, and her head in the clouds, making the small seem great and the great seem greater.”…
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Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others Etching by Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn (1606-1669), circa 1790s impression on laid paper by P.H. Basan, from C.H. Watelet/J and P.J. Mariette plates. Signed in plate, lower left. More information soon.
Today I had the pleasure of evaluating a copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from a rare, limited edition published in 1969 by Maecenas Press – Random House, New York.Printed in an edition of 2500, the unbound copies…
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I have served as Webmaster for the H.G. Wells Society since 2002. One of my responsibilities is to forward email inquiries to the society secretary for consideration and distribution. I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of inquiries through the years,…
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It is sometimes said that while the rest of the world goes to war for territory or to protect an empire, America goes to war for souvenirs. It’s a cynical notion, clearly, though still manages to raise a smile here…
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July was a very busy month for my family, so the blog was neglected. I will at least post a bit about the adventures of my son and I at the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation sometime soon. But, in…
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Doing some online research today and stumbled across this fun bit. Sold by Ancient Resource, LLC in March 2014, it reached a little over half the low estimate. See link for more images. It’s worth noting Antony and Cleopatra’s shared tomb…
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