15-year-old Jane Austen’s parodical history of England
“During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for.”
“It was in this reign that Joan of Arc lived & made such a row among the English. They should not have burnt her – but they did.”
Marc Wilson – The Last Stand
(World War II fortifications in decay)
“For a black hunt, a mute pack” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Landscape and signal lamp, 1922 (NOAA)
Sublime, undefinable art by Emma McNally
Instructions for assembling a plague amulet (1670)
from Juan Vilanova y Piera’s La Creacion: Historia Naturale (1874)
