Plenty of Nothing

Eaton's Catalogue Fall & Winter 1922-23

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The Argonauts by Carstens

From a series by Asmus Jakob Carstens. Source.

D__n This Hiccup!

An illustration from Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire (1837), in which he attempts to cure his hiccups by setting himself on fire. Source.

Skylab by Robert T. McCall

This is the fiftieth anniversary of Skylab 2, the crewed mission to the damaged Skylab module. Source.

Bee by Schellenberg

Source. Illustrator Johann Rudolph Schellenberg of Winterthur, Switzerland is mentioned by Diderot in Le rêve de d'Alembert as an example of complete recovery from brain injury.

Kit

Grim things were happening on Sick Steer Trail when hard-boiled gang moll Kit met world-weary Hampton one night on a snowy ridge in Colorado in the short story "$2,000 Reward, A Drama On The Top Of The World," written by Alma and Paul Ellerbe, and published in Cosmopolitan, March 1925 (not 1924 as everyone on the internet believes) with illustrations by Dean Cornwell. Read their desperate struggle toward redemption and the inevitable proposal of marriage here. The top image is a modern photo of Cornwell's original oil painting; the bottom two are screen grabs from the scanned magazine, showing the state of 1920s colour reprography. Kit’s Colt 45 automatic looks way too modern for a Western but was in fact in service from 1911 onward.

Renaissance Vegetius

A woodcut, probably by Pater von Mainz, from a c. 1512 edition of Vegetius, De re militari, showing some fanciful gear that Vegetius never heard of. Source.

Spatenbräu

I once purchased an Octoberfest-scale beer stein just because it had this attractive logo on it. It's the trademark of the Munich brewery Spatenbräu and was designed in 1884 by Otto Hupp, an artist who specialized in 16th-century German heraldry. That shovel really looks like it was drawn by Albrecht Dürer or one of his contemporaries. The GS stands for Gabriel Sedlmayr who bought the medieval brewery in 1807 and started it down the road to lager supremacy. Check out Hupp's series of Kaffee HAG albums here.

Vladimir Lebedev

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Bosnian Waitress by Mucha

Source. Read about Mucha's Bosnian commission here.