Woman Eating Hemp, 18th Century

‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp),  by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)     oil on canvas     Watercolor with pen and ink       “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it Read More …

Extracting Hemp from the Retting Pit, 1615

‘Estrazione della canapa dal macero’ (Extracting Hemp from the Retting Pit) by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as ‘Il Guercino’  1615  

The Ropemakers of Torre del Greco, 1883

‘The Ropemakers of Torre del Greco’ (I funari di Torre del Greco)  by Antonino Leto 1883  

Grapes of Wrath

Capt. Rufus D. Pettit’s Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery, taken during McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign in Fort Richardson, Fair Oaks, Virginia 1862 Grapes of Wrath At the height of battle when all seemed lost facing an overwhelming advancing force, Read More …

As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young, 1664

‘As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young’ by Jan Steen in 1664 The painting is used as a proverb by the artist portraying the message that ‘children copy adults’.  Artist Jan Steen decided to use his actual family in Read More …

Hemp Chocolate Card, 1890’s

‘The Hemp: The Canvas, the ropes, Hempseed oil’,  Chocolate bar trading card (1 of 84 in this botanical series) by ‘Chocolat Guerin-Boutron’ in Paris from the 1890’s   “Le chanvre: La toile, les cordes, huile de chènevis”

The Spinner, 1889

“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.” -Francis Cabot Lowell The Spinner by Vincent van Gogh, 1889