A ship, a train, and a collective of sage travelers circle the eternal compass in this montage of Ki
A ship, a train, and a collective of sage travelers circle the eternal compass in this montage of Kislak Center treasures. This piece was used as the September image in our calendar this year, and its whimsical caravan gratifies our wanderlust-prone fantasies on this #traveltuesday. * * *“Compass” digital collage by Chris LippaSources:*Eie schön new Lied. [Germany?, ca 1623]. German Culture Class Collection*Samuil Marshak. Semʹ chudes. Leningrad; Moscow: Izd-vo Raduga, 1926. Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection*Melchior Adam Pastorius. [Literary and historical miscellany]. [Middle Franconia, Germany, ca. 1695-1702]. UPenn Ms. Codex 1151*[Rāgamālā]. [India], 1799-1804.Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, LJS 63*Dhammasaṅgaṇi: Phra Bahaanayya Sutta, Phra Malai. ca. 1880s. Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts, UPenn Ms. Coll. 990, item 2*Katsushika Hokusai. Hodogaya on the Tōkaidō, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Japan, ca. 1830-32. Cecilia Segawa Siegle Collection*Currier & Ives. “Trotters on the Snow” [trade card]. [New York, 1880]. Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert Medical Ephemera Collection*Giuseppe Malombra. Pratica uniuersale facilissima, et breue di misurare con la uista. Fiorenza: Appresso Simone Ciotti, 1630.Rare Book Collection*Athanasius Kircher. Mundus Subterraneaus. Amsterdam, 1678.Rare Book Collection.* * *#kislakcenter #Pennlibraries #librariesofinstagram #collage #compass #collageart #digitalcollage #planestrainsautomobiles #specialcollections #rarebooks #artoftheday -- source link
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