Bits and bobs

These cartoons are the political satire of its time, as clever and punchy as the TV panel shows that do the same job today. "The Pl...

 A Spanish Joke!. George Cruikshank (Click to enlarge or download) (I am going to post this entry both in English and in Spanish)...

Book of Penmanship by Frances A. Henshaw  Indiana. Frances A. Henshaw. 1823 (Click to enlarge or download)  In the eightee...

Johann Kautsky’s Tree Lithographies  "Sweet Chestnut". Johann Kautsky. (Click to enlarge or download)  Arbor Day w...

CHARLES DICKENS  (Click to enlarge or download)  I’m very proud to mark the 200 th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth (February...

Audubon’s engravings. French- American naturalist, ornithologist and artist John James Audubon (1785-1951) was born in the French colony of...

 Easter Island. James Cook. Voyage towards the South Pole. 1777 (Click to enlarge or download)  Easter Island based on Captain Ja...