Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1818-1881)
“West Wind” (1876)
Marble
Located in the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, United States
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)
“Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds” (1871)
Oil on mahogany panel
Located in the National Gallery of Art, Washingon DC, United StatesThe painting depicts two green-and-pink Brazilian Amethysts hovering about a nest while a red-tailed Sappho Comet perches nearby.
“The memories only you and I possess will die within us”— from replay (via hellish-daddy)
“I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I’ve realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.”— Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (via quotespile)
Hans Holbein c. 1533
The Ambassadors (detail of the Celestial Globe)