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  2. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

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    However, the drawing shows little resemblance to the latter. Historians suggest that many of the backdrops of the drawings were copied from drawing manuals. One such example is a drawing of the greater mousedeer, the background of which shows a leafless climber attached to a rock. Some scholars query this, as mousedeer do not live in such rocky ...

  3. File:Tollesbury Fleet, dead trees.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: A line of dead trees running toward Tollesbury Fleet. The trees died as a consequence of flooding as part of a 'managed retreat' of seawalls. The opening shot of the 2011 BBC Great Expectations series was filmed here, showing escaped convict Abel Magwitch emerging from the marsh, and thus the trees are sometimes called the "Magwitch trees".

  4. File:Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and ...

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    File information Description Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and Live Trees) (Paisaje con árbol muerto y vivo), oil on canvas, 49.4 x 65.4 cm, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokio.

  5. Still life - Wikipedia

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    Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).

  6. Lake with Dead Trees - Wikipedia

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    Lake with Dead Trees, also known as Catskill, is an oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1825 by Thomas Cole. Depicting a scene in the Catskill Mountains in southeastern New York State, this work is one of five of Cole's 1825 landscapes that initiated the mid-19th century American art movement known as the Hudson River School .

  7. The Pencil of Nature - Wikipedia

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    Each plate is accompanied by a short text which describes the scene and the photographic processes involved in obtaining it. Talbot emphasized the practical implications of his images (for instance, "The whole cabinet of a Virtuoso and collector of old China might be depicted on paper in little more time than it would take him to make a written inventory describing it in the usual way."), but ...

  8. List of drawings by Rembrandt - Wikipedia

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    The drawing is related to the painting W37 : The Raising of the Cross: 1628-1629: Black chalk, heightened with white, framing lines in pencil and with the pen and brown ink: 19.3 x 14.8 cm: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: The drawing is related to the painting W106 : Two Sitting Figures: c. 1628-1629: Black chalk: 19.3 x 14.8 cm

  9. Sketch (drawing) - Wikipedia

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    Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. It may also apply to drawings executed in pen and ink, digital input such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker pen, water colour and oil paint.