Historical highlights for the first week of fall coming right up! Read about broadside ballads, textiles, art criticism, real estate, Winston Churchill, H.G. Wells, Martin Luther, Beatrix Potter, and migraines.
Broadside ballads were the social media of the industrial revolution.
The Peruvians — not the Egyptians — were the first to dye textiles with indigo.
Art criticism began with the catalogues of 18th century Parisians salons.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s house in St. Paul is up for sale for a mere $665,000.
A new book looks at Winston Churchill’s stint as a war correspondent in South Africa.
Many of H.G. Wells’ 150-year-old predictions have come true.
An exhibit on Martin Luther will open at the Morgan Library and Museum in NYC on October 7. “Word and Image includes more than ninety objects, highlighted by one of the six existing printed copies of the Ninety-Five Theses, and nearly forty paintings, prints, and drawings by the celebrated German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. Also on view will be Luther’s manuscript draft of his famous Old Testament translation, sculptor Conrad Meit’s exquisite statues of Adam and Eve, and over thirty of Luther’s most important publications. The majority of the works in the show are loans from German museums and have never before been exhibited in the United States.”
Beatrix Potter’s lost tale, Kitty-in-Boots, (mentioned here) has been published with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Finally, if you suffer from migraines you might be interested in this article.
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