Tag: Sailors

British Library, Google in Deal to Digitize Books Published between 1700 and 1870

LONDON (AP).- A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available online in a deal between Google and the British L…

Setting Sail: Images of the Sea from the Collection on View at the Walters Art Museum

BALTIMORE, MD.- Setting Sail features drawings, paintings, and prints of ships, sailors and the sea from the permanent collection of the Walters. The sea, and the men and women who make their living from it, have provided subjects for art from ancient …

Work by Gerhard Richter from the Weserburg Museum to Be Offered

LONDON.- An important painting by Gerhard Richter from 1966, Matrosen (Sailors), will be among the highlights of Sotheby’s Contemporary evening sale in New York, to be held on 9 November 2010.The painting is being offered on behalf of the Weserbur…

Important Work by Gerhard Richter from the Weserburg Museum to Be Offered by Sotheby’s

LONDON.- An important painting by Gerhard Richter from 1966, Matrosen (Sailors), will be among the highlights of Sotheby’s Contemporary evening sale in New York, to be held on 9 November 2010.The painting is being offered on behalf of the Weserbur…

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