1850s

bonnet-grec “Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of...

Bologna Children's Book Fair, 2017 . “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life...

Edgar Degas, The tub, 1886 Edgar Degas, Woman in a Tub, 1883 Edgar Degas, After the Bath, 1895 Edgar Degas,...

Utagawa Hiroshige, New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji, 1857 . “Love is like a wind stirring the...

Helen O’Leary. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”...

Ilse Bing, Bourgeois Walking Along Path, Versailles, 1931 . “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”...

Hiram Powers, Psyche, 1848 . “A light … seems to shine from the interior of the marble, and beam forth...

W. Eugene Smith, 1941. "I have a childish hope to gather all I love together and sit down beside and...

Charles Dickens, 1853 ...

Sketch of a warship, envelope dated 1855* ...