Showing posts with label Postcards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Postcards. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

My Little Postcard Da Vinci's

 A detail from The Virgin of the Rocks (The Virgin with the Infant Saint John adoring the Infant Christ accompanied by an Angel), about 1491-1508
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Oil on wood, 189.5 x 120 cm
Bought 1880
The National Gallery
 A detail from The Virgin of the Rocks, about 1491-1508
See above
 A detail from The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist ('The Burlington House Cartoon'), about 1499-1500
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Charcoal (and wash?) heightened with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, mounted on canvas, 141.5 x 104.6 cm
Purchased 1962
The National Gallery
See above

Flower Power





These postcards are some of my absolute favorites from my collection. They're reproductions of posters that were used in London Underground stations during the 1920's to advertise Kew Gardens.