Molly Rausch

Molly Rausch starts with a postage stamp and then moves outward and beyond. I love her work.

Mail Art

Do not hesitate to visit this wonderful page at The Guardian with its joyful collection of illustrated envelopes.

The Captain’s Walk

“This name is applied to a roof platform affording a lookout for home-coming ships, common to many houses in Nantucket and the old New England whaling ports. It is sometimes called ‘whale walk.’ Painted for The Century [July 1910] by Henry J. Peck.”

Champions in the Making

Marion Davies

Marion Davies, colorized by Klimbim.

Machine à Gommer

A machine for applying glue to the back of sheets of postage stamps, from La Poste : Illustrée par les Cartes Postales, 1900-1925 by Pierre-Stéphane Proust.

Kim English

Stumbled upon the works of painter Kim English this morning. They remind me of those of Anders Zorn, and John Singer Sargent’s in Venice, and I love them a lot.

Pet

This postcard arrived today with the written message, “Our new dog.” Also, in print, “Hippopotamus ‘William,’ Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, Faience, ca. 1961-1878 B.C.,” from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Note: Faience is glazed Egyptian earthenware or pottery, highly colored, and said to be endowed with magical powers.

Evelyn

Art by Edwin Georgi for a postcard published by Prion Books Ltd., London

Hazy

“She belonged in this garden, in the checker of light and shadow and exotic color, slender like a young bamboo and rounded as a purple passion fruit.” And so, in “East of Eastward” (1917) by John Russell, young Alfred Poynter Tunstal is plied with glasses of arrack, beguiled by a young beauty and strangled by an orangutan. Then events take a turn for the worse. Art by N.C. Wyeth.