Some cool photo of animals images:
Woodcut diagram of a portion of a visual alphabet and its application from Johann Horst von Romberch's work on memory, Congestorium artificiose memorie (Venice: Melchiorre Sessa, 1533)
Image by Penn Provenance Project
Woodcut diagram of a portion of a visual alphabet and its application from Johann Horst von Romberch's work on memory, Congestorium artificiose memorie (Venice: Melchiorre Sessa, 1533). "Visual alphabets are ways of representing letters of the alphabet by images. These are formed in various ways; for example with pictures of objects whose shape resemble [sic] letters of the alphabet, as compasses or a ladder for A; or a hoe for N. Another way is through pictures of animals or birds arranged in the order of the first letter of their names, as A for Anser, goose, B for Bubo, owl."--F.A. Yates, The Art of Memory (London: Pimlico, 1992), p. 124-125.
Established heading: Sessa, Melchiorre, ‡d fl. 1506-1549
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 H7958 520c 1533
All images from this book
Pachyderm Profile
Image by Thomas Gehrke
A reworking of a previous photo of mine.
Elephant courtesy of the Memphis Zoo.
UPDATE: Surprised by the reception this photo has gotten. Greatly appreciate all the kind words!
Just wanted to point out that the full sized image (3664 x 2290) is available for anyone who wants to create a print for your personal use. If you do, I'd love to know and/or see it hanging on your wall.
It also probably isn't obvious, but 3664 x 2290 is a 16:10 ratio which is the aspect ratio of most computer displays and really close to the 16:9 ratio of most HD displays. This means you can grab the full-sized image to use as a background. Even on "retina" displays.
going walking 2
Image by mylilangel58(aka Jane)
thanks go out to RaynaOC for her photo shop skills.....
this is the orginial as it came out of the camera
www.flickr.com/photos/mylilangel58/3184210190/in/set-7215...
