The artist George Catlin kept journals and published accounts of his time in the American west. Listen to a Catlin’s description of his first close encounter with wild horses.
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Dogs have been called “man’s best friend”, but when did these close bonds first take shape? The Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck wonders about the origins of our canine companionship in this excerpt from his book Our Friend the Dog.
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Commissioners of portraits can be particular when it comes to how the artist depicts their subject, even when the “sitters” are animals! English wood engraver Thomas Bewick describes an artistic dilemma when confronted by a patron who demanded changes to Bewick’s naturalistic depiction of sheep.
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Listen to a recording from the sculptor Herbert Haseltine’s writings describing his meeting with the prize-winning pig, Wharfedale Deliverance.
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Dogs have been called “man’s best friend”, but when did these close bonds first take shape? The Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck wonders about the origins of our canine companionship in this excerpt from his book Our Friend the Dog.
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Deas’ Turkey Shooting was drawn from James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pioneers. Listen to a recording from chapter 17 of Cooper’s novel detailing the traditional Christmas day turkey shoot.
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In the early 1900s, fashionable women wore large hats adorned with flowers, ribbons, lace, and most strikingly, birds. This recording from the winter 1897 issue of Harper’s Bazaar speaks to the detrimental impact that the fashionable hat trade had on birds.
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In the weeks preceding Edouard Vuillard’s stay in Romanel, he visited friends in L’Etang-la-Ville, a small town outside of Paris. There, he realized his growing appreciation for nature and its striking simplicity, and expressed it in a letter to his friend Swiss artist Félix Vallotton dated August 10, 1900. Listen to a recording of Vuillard’s thoughts on country life.
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During Count Sándor’s stay in Melton Mowbray, an amused press reported on his bold feats in riding and fox hunting. C. J. Nimrod, a writer for The Sporting Magazine, relays his impressions of the count in his article “Nimrod’s Visit to Melton Mowbray,” published in May 1829. Listen to what he had to say!
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From the May 1833 issue of The Sporting Magazine, this excerpt from the article “Grouse Shooting in the North” speaks to the merits of the Kingston breed of English Setters, and accompanied an engraving after Marshall’s Colonel Henry Campbell Shooting on the Moor.
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