EditorialScenic, Hand painted on handmade paper, a) Small brown heron with white undersides alighting amidst blue and pink blossoms; b) Two pink-flecked white, six-petal lilies with leaf spray; c) Three blue water Iris at pond's edge. Blue-gray leaves at base o...
EditorialHow many centuries of change and chance Those gnarled gray trunks have sentineled, calm and still, Above the pool where slanting sunbeams glance, And the grave heron wets his tawny bill! How many more will pass, with all they bear Of human toil, of str...
EditorialWolf hunt, second half 16th century, Pen and black, dark gray, and gray brown ink, and (between the pen lines of the illusionistic frame) brush and gray ink, on vellum., 2 3/4 x 8 11/16 in. (7.0 x 22.1 cm), Drawings, ?tienne Delaune (French, Orl?ans 15...
EditorialBirds: storks, cassowaries, herons, cranes, ostriches, spoonbills, 1. The white stork, 2. The Indian cassowary, 3. The gray heron, 4. The gray crane, 5. The African ostrich, 6. The white spoonbill, Taf. V, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz: Abbildungen aus der Na...
EditorialWolf hunt, second half 16th century, Pen and black, dark gray, and gray brown ink, and (between the pen lines of the illusionistic frame) brush and gray ink, on vellum., 2 3/4 x 8 11/16 in. (7.0 x 22.1 cm), Drawings, ?tienne Delaune (French, Orl?ans 15...
EditorialGray Heron (Aosagi) and Mizu-aoi Plant, 1857, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 x 9 5/8 in. (35.6 x 24.4 cm), Prints, Unidentified Artist Japanese.
EditorialHow many centuries of change and chance Those gnarled gray trunks have sentineled, calm and still, Above the pool where slanting sunbeams glance, And the grave heron wets his tawny bill! How many more will pass, with all they bear Of human toil, of str...