Last night's haul: Textile Fragment
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July 4, 2026
Last Night's Haul
Textile Fragment
Textile Fragment
Unknown, 1774–1793
velvet (cut, uncut, voided, brocaded); silk · lifted from The Cleveland Museum of Art
also in the bag:
Meadowland
Meadowland
Mary Nimmo Moran, born Strathaven, Scotland 1842-died East Hampton, NY 1899, 1884 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer, ca. 1763–64 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
LE SOLDAT DU CHENE, AN OSAGE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North...
LE SOLDAT DU CHENE, AN OSAGE CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North...
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844, ca. 1838 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning
Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning
Zhou Lianggong, datable to 1663 or later · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Farvestudie efter Delacroixs maleri Dante og Vergil i Underverdenen, Louvre
Farvestudie efter Delacroixs maleri Dante og Vergil i Underverdenen, Louvre
Edvard Weie, 1930-1939 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark
The Line
"A very pretty way this, to tempt these tender and timorous souls to love their book, with a furious countenance, and a rod in hand."
Essays, Montaigne
From the Vault
Symphony concerts WPA Federal Music Project of New York City Theatre of Music
Symphony concerts WPA Federal Music Project of New York City Theatre of Music, 1936-01-01
found in the Library of Congress
On the Lam
Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena, known since the imperial era as Cartagena de Indias, is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route to the West Indies provides it with important historical value for world exploration and preservation of heritage from the great commercial maritime routes. Lay low here.
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