Nice Etchings

Paradigmata Graphices variorum Artificum, Jan de Bisschop. What seems to be an uncompleted digitisation from manuscriptorium - european digital library of written cultural heritage. I thought I'd grab a few images before they finished it and slapped their watermarks all over them.

Shitakiri suzume

This is the Dutch language version of the Shitakiri suzume, one of the so-called chirimen bon (crepe-paper books) that were created for foreigners during the Meiji period. Our copy is a tairashi-bon (prints on plain paper). This was translated by Pieter Gerard van Schermbeek and the Dutch title is De musch met de geknipte tong. This book is the last Dutch language book published in Japan in the 19th century owned by the National Diet Library.

One of the items from the 'Japan-Netherlands Exchange in the Edo Period' online exhibition. Link…

Historical Netherlands

The Dutch National Archive has a flickr stream. Link…

Frank Nicholas Meyer

Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927. Link…

Will Urselmann

Great industrial photography. Link…

Tales of Hofman

Very cool art projects from Florentijn Hofman. Link…

Sculptural Jewellery

Padung padung (earrings) as worn by the Karo Batak. Details from photographs held at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. Link…

Hanuman

From a collection of 13,000 photographs at the University of Leiden. Link…