The Match Woman & the Muffin Man by John Dempsey - Place Mat aliceinwonderland

The Match Woman & the Muffin Man by John Dempsey - Place Mat aliceinwonderlandThis placemat is the perfect gift for anyone interested in old London history or John Dempsey. This image is from an impressive collection of watercolour images of English street people made by the itinerant English painter John Dempsey throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. The exhibition profiles the stories of town criers, match sellers, chimney sweeps, street food vendors, and numerous other characters populating the urban landscape

Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

long-extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya

The painting was extremely controversial when first exhibited because of its realistic depiction of a carpentry workshop with shavings on the floor

Piglet and Roo prepare to catch him

937 feet) above arid Namibian plains

where individual dunes often surpass 500 meters in both width and height

Jean Peters

and Max Showalter

heat resistant and can be wiped clean

nestles in a fertile valley flanked by arid mountains

A highland ridge is just high enough to disturb the flow of the lines

sweeping flow lines are crossed in places by much shorter lines