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Loy Allen Bowlin: The Original Rhinestone Cowboy.

Bowlin was an outsider artist who decorated his home and himself, including his dentures, in rhinestones. After his death in 1995, his home was nearly demolished, but was saved at the last minute and put in an art center in Wisconsin.

Botanical watercolours taken from a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician of Siena, illustrated by Gherardo Cibo.

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=262&CollID=27&NStart=22332

River Forest, Västmanland, Sweden

Pegasus re-saddled. 1878. Cover detail. 

FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY

A BICHON MALTESE NEAR HIS BENCH

Oil on canvas; bears a signature on the lower right Delamare