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Man Proposes, God Disposes. Edwin Landseer's 1864 painting Man Proposes, God Disposes is believed to be haunted, and a bad omen. [6] According to urban myth, a student of Royal Holloway college once committed suicide during exams by stabbing a pencil into their eye, writing "The polar bears made me do it" on their exam paper. [7]
The Visionary Heads is a series of black chalk and pencil drawings produced by William Blake after 1818 by request of John Varley, the watercolour artist and astrologer. The subjects of the sketches, many of whom are famous historical and mythical characters, appeared to Blake in visions during late night meetings with Varley, as if sitting for ...
Blake's The Head of the Ghost of a Flea, (Verso: A Profile and a Reduced Drawing of Milton's First Wife circa 1819). Pencil on paper, 189 mm × 153 mm, c. 1819. Tate, London. Although not directly stated by Gilchrist, there is a close connection between the ghost and the later The Head of the Ghost of a Flea. [11]
Spirit photography (also called ghost photography) is a type of photography whose primary goal is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting. It dates back to the late 19th century.
William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York City and Boston. [1] His first spirit photograph was apparently an accident—a self-portrait which, when developed, also revealed the "spirit" of his deceased cousin.
Ghost of a Genius: 50 x 35.4 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Oil transfer and watercolour on paper, on card 1922 Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation) 37.9 x 42.0 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Oil on canvas, on cardboard 1922 Plants in the Moonlight: 24.4 x 15.9 Detroit Institute of Arts
Ghost of Queen Esther, the ghost of an Iroquois woman who allegedly mourns the massacre of her village in Pennsylvania. Ghosts of the American Civil War; Greenbrier Ghost, the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. In a court trial, the woman's mother claimed that her daughter's ghost told her she had been murdered.
Comics Greatest World: Arcadia, weeks 1-4: X (pencils by Chris Warner, inks by Tim Bradstreet), Pit Bulls (pencils by Joe Phillips, inks by John Dell), Ghost (pencils by Adam Hughes, inks by Mark Farmer), Monster (pencils by Derek Thompson, inks by Ande Parks). All were written by Jerry Prosser. Ghost : Issue #9, #15, #'s