some LANDSCAPES

     Edward Lear, The valley of the Shkumbin River near Elbasan in central Albania , 26 September 1848  Edward Lear's travel writing is,...

And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye. And thou, the bright eye of the universe, ...

Friedrich Georg Weitsch, Alexander von Humboldt, 1806 Images: Wikimedia Commons Andrea Wulf has just won another prize for The Inven...

Source: NASA Earth Observatory With flights grounded following the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull and a cloud of volcanic ash coverin...

Whilst Samuel Palmer was appending poetic quotations to his rural scenes, J.M.W. Turner was thinking about the relationship between poetry...