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The old woman went out to ask the moon the way to Soria Maria’s castle.
Erik Werenskiold, from Fairy tales from the far North, by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, London, 1897.
Via archive.org.Posted on June 27, 2011 via OBI Scrapbook Blog with 36 notes
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There was an old woman lived under the hill,And if she’s not gone she lives there still.
Baked apples she sold, and cranberry pies,
And she’s the old woman that never told lies.
from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies 1833
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“Byale (Biała Podlaska, Lublin province), 1926. Wolf Nachowicz, the gravedigger, teaches his grandson to read while the boy’s grandmother looks on with pleasure. (The father is in America.)”
Alter Kacyzne (1885-1941)
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“Warsaw. Khana Kolsky is a hundred and six years old. Every evening she confesses her sins and eats cookies. Her eighty years old son in America cannot believe she is still alive. 1925”
Alter Kacyzne (1885-1941)
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Margaret Bourke-White Close Up Portrait of Old Russian Peasant
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A beggar in Tehran. Antoine Sévruguin, c. 1900
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Clarence H. White, “Evening- Interior”, 1899.
Posted on March 18, 2010 via Second-hand Sights with 138 notes
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Posted on March 10, 2010 via imaginary ocean with 148 notes
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Painter, illustrator, maker of clocks & teller of tales, who travelled in a house on wheels to the edge of Dartmoor and now sits there amongst books and paint finding beauty in otherness..
This will be a sketchbook of ideas, visuals to inspire, and snippets from my own journey.
http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com
