Alexander Rodchenko, Stars, 1938
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Félix Vallotton, Fireworks, Woodcut, 1901
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‘Crowd of the Damned' from the 'Pamplona Bible', Navarre, 1197
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Pushkin sketched out characters in rough drafts, alongside their descriptions
Page from draft for the second canto of Eugene Onegin, 1825-32
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José de Ribera, Visión de Baltasar/ The Vision of Belshazzar, 1635
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Michelangelo’s Handwritten Grocery List
(the servant he sent to market was illiterate)
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The closing lines of 'The Dead' by James Joyce
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 's annotated copy of the first edition of 'Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus', London, 1818
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J. S. Bach- Original Score for 'Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich', in the composer's hand
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Erik Satie - Hotel de la Suzonnières, c. 1893
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Olga Rozanova, Suprematist pattern design, ca.1917-18, Moscow
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Liubov Popova, textile design, Russia, 1920s
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Black with gold waves pattern Chiyogami, Japanese hand screen printed paper
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Sonia Delaunay, Electric Prisms, 1914
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Paul Klee. In the Current Six Thresholds. 1929
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Detail of a hand embroidered wool quilt with circles, unknown artist, American, 1897
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Jain manuscript, Aḍhāī-dvīpa, ‘Two and a half continents’. Painting on cloth, 18th century
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Section of the Dunhuang star chart (showing a polar projection (North circumpolar region))
Original was made circa 649-684 CE by Li Chunfeng
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John Auldjo, Vesuvius Lava map, 1832
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‘The Four Great Islands’, from a Burmese Buddhist cosmology manuscript.
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'Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido', 14th-century Korean star map
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Map of Osaka by Kono Dosei, 1651
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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1961, Pen and ink on paper
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Ceiling of the Mosque of Sheikh Lotfollah, Isfahan, Iran
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A Thangka Record of the Miracles at Gendüngang Monastery (13th Century?)
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Map of the Moon, From an 18th century German children’s encyclopaedia, 'Bertuch’s Bilderbuch für Kinder'
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16th century copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
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Arabic Map of the Earth, date unknown
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Fra Angelico, The Vision of Ezekiel, c. 1451-1452
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“The Man of Commerce” is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system. Published in 1889
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‘Skidi ‘, Pawnee Star Map Great Plains, Kansas
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From the Augsburg 'Book of Miracles', c. 1550
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Hildegard of Bingen’s illumination for “God, Cosmos, and Humanity” in Scivias, her book of religious visions, ca. 1151
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