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image of the day and resorted to a bit of random slow shutter experimentation ... care to hazard a guess as to what the subject is? :o)
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Mixed media print by Js.J Creations. Original sketchwork and digital manipulation marry beautifully in this print of muted colours and peacefulness.
I can't think of a strong title for this high key image I made today. I really like it though. It's a salvage of a shot I made without having my camera properly adjusted. Instead of deleting it in the moment, I decided maybe I could abstract it. Hmm. Maybe that's the title.
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Title: Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker : in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state ; to which pious and unprecedented exercises is prefixed, an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God and addresses to man ; together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking ; the facts, attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemen ; and the discourses, correctly noted by clerical stenographers
Creator: Douglass, John H
Creator: Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828, dedicatee
Creator: Kiersted, Henry T., 1793-1882, publisher
Creator: Marks, Samuel, printer
Creator: Jarvis, John Wesley, 1780-1840, illustrator
Creator: Gimbrede, Thomas, 1781-1832, engraver
Creator: Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831. Arrangement of those parts of the phenomena of the human mind which belong to the function of somnium
Creator: Van Winkle and Wiley, bookseller
Publisher: New York : Printed for the proprietor, by S. Marks ...
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Date: 1815
Language: eng
Description: "It is the extent of his pretensions to give to the public, a collection of classified and authenticated facts; most of which are at once new and indubitable. Some extracts are also reprinted from the works of distinguished men in relation to the cause or causes to which such facts are to be attributed. ... "--Introduction, p. 10. Signed: John H. Douglass, M.D. April 24, 1815
Second edition
Dedicated to DeWitt Clinton
Signatures: A-Z⁶
Error in pagination: p. 140-149 omitted
Contents the same as those of the edition printed by Van Winkle and Wiley in 1815
Includes (p. 25-106): An arrangement of those parts of the phenomena of the human mind which belong to the function of somnium, a state which is intermediate between waking and sleeping / by Samuel L. Mitchill
Errata at end
Frontispiece portrait of Rachel Baker signed: Jarvis pt. T. Gimbrede sc
Cover imprint: New-York: Printed for the proprietor, by Samuel Marks, 1815. For sale at the principal bookstores, and by the proprietor, H.T. Kiersted, no. 38 Hudson-Street, New-York
"Books, recently published, and for sale by Van Winkle & Wiley, no. 3 Wall-Street"--cover p. [4]
Film 633 reel 38 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 38, no. 661)
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints
Shaw and Shoemaker
NLM copy, bookplates of the Washington Library, "no. 116"
Microfilm
Will digitize
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Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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Do NOT view large... ;) best viewed from a distance with squinty little eyes and half a bottle of shiraz.
I created this as part of an exercise in utilising letterforms in ways that they are not traditionally used. This remains one of my favourite pieces of design that I have created as I like the creative way I have tried to fill spaces and create an interesting and dynamic work of art.
the hot white sun of arizona as refracted by a tree next to our house. (this tree is now dropping yellow pollen balls that make my sinuses ready to explode)
Digitally Stylized Photograph from the Diving Dreams Series
Edition size 10 Prints on Canvas
Standard Sizes 20x30 29x44 44x66
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Taken towards the end of the day in Bryant Park. I liked the lines in the building and the contrasting highlights and shadows from the setting sun.