Dory Gallery

John dory, Zeus faber, and emperor angelfish

John dory, Zeus faber, and emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Boys in a Dory, 1873 (w/c washes and gouache over graphite on textured white wove paper)

3468949 Boys in a Dory, 1873 (w/c washes and gouache over graphite on textured white wove paper) by Homer, Winslow (1836-1910); 24.8x35.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Homer spent the summer of 1873 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the picturesque fishing port on Cape Ann, north of Boston. ); American, out of copyright

© Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA / Bridgeman Images

Where is Commander Maude ? Where is Commander Maude, who is sailing with no company

Where is Commander Maude ?
Where is Commander Maude, who is sailing with no company but an edition of Shakespeare from Vancouver to London ? Commander Maude set out from Victoria in a 25 ft dory type sloop called the Half Moon.
Commander Maude on the Half Moon just before sailing.
11 June 1925

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