Garnish Greens

Ink and watercolor on paper depicting waterway with man in boat in foreground and city buildings, including bell tower, in background.

Townview with Bell Tower in the Background

This sepia watercolor-over-pencil picture is representative of the romantic landscapes and cityscapes for which Salomon Leonardus Verveer was best known. His work bridges the romantic tradition in…

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Printed page with Hebrew text in center under archway, flanked by two figures in robes, with a figure on top amid landscape background, and two figures below text under stone archway.

Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon

This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…

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Musicians and Watchmakers

“Act dumb,” Otilia advised me. “Change the subject.” To help me understand what she meant, she illustrated by relating a conversation she had had with a neighbor. It was December, when a great deal of…

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