Lucien Petit-Breton, the first cyclist to win two Tours, in 1907 and 1908

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oldbookillustrations:

Monuments of Roman architecture.

From Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon : Geschichte der Baukunst (plates to the history of architecture section of the Conversations-Lexikon, AKA Brockhaus Enzyklopädie), Published by Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1888.

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kagami:

From: Gioseffo Petrucci - Prodomo apologetico alli studi Chircheriani… (1677).

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pedalcrafts:

love that chainstay!

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librar-y:

Ludgate Hill, London, 1910.

Nick Cave & Blixa Bargeld

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flasd:

Natalia Goncharova - The Cyclist (1913)

flasd:

Illustration from Traité de perspective à l’usage des artistes où l’on démontre géométriquement toutes les pratiques de cette science, & où l’on enseigne, selon la méthode de M. le Clerc, à mettre toutes sortes d’objets en perspective, leur reverbération dans l’eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu’au flambeau (1750) by Edme-Sébastien Jeurat (1725-1803).

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1900

A 23m section drawn in 1900 reveals careful observation not just of brick structures hut also variations in the texture and consistency of tell material. Recording and publication of drawings of this standard did not become firmly established until well into the twentieth century.

Archaeology: An Introduction, 2002, Greene K

Image: Das wieder erstehende Babylon, 1913, Koldewey

1897

… a representative of a common type, and was as found at Santon Downham, between Brandon and Thetford, on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, where, also, implements belonging to the Paleolithic Period have been discovered.  The sides were originally sharp, but have been slightly rounded by grinding.  The faces still show, in many places, the surface originally produced by chipping, but all projections have been ground away.

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain, 1897, Evans, J

1852

1. Saxon Vase, of black pottery – actual size

2. Vessel of very coarse earthen-ware, which

contained the ashes of a child – half size.

William Michael Wylie became involved in the Ango-Saxon excavations at Waterslade Field, Fairford having moved to Fairford in 1847. Previous discoveries of Anglo-Saxon material had been made while quarrying for stone in 1844-5 in a field called Tanner’s Field. 36 skeletons were uncovered at that time. Wylie excavated, at his own expense, the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Waterslade Field in 1850, and donated the finds to the Ashmolean Museum in 1865. ‘Fairford Graves’ was published by J.H. Parker of Oxford in 1852 at a cost of ten shillings.

Fairford Graves: A Record of Researches in An Anglo-Saxon Burial-Place in Gloucestershire 1852

William Michael Wylie

British Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum

http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/highlights/fairford.htm

knitwitsblog:

look at all that colorwork! beautiful!

gwebarchaeology:

myancientworld:

Fresco wall-painting from Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. Dated at 60- 50 BCE.

This fresco can be found in cubiculum (small room/bedroom) 16 in the Pompeian villa, and is painted in the Second Style; frescoes in this style have more architectural elements, and creates the idea of ‘illusionism’, or a 3-dimensional aspect. The Villa of the Mysteries is one of the most intriguing villas in Pompeii due to its striking artwork.

nickkahler:

AutoCAD Hatch Patterns, c. 2000

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