“The most of our winter days are fair ones . . .
and methought ‘twas pity any of them should be lost . . .
To sleep all winter more befits a bear than a man . ”
Cotton Mather
American Puritan minister and author, 1663-1728
These are graphic felicities whose subjects are chiefly wintery. But some are merely
appealing designs I wished to share with you, extracts from the curio cabinet of old
woodcuts, engravings, world-renowned paintings, posters, patent medicine labels,
cartoons, my own winnowings of the iconic debris of our civilization.
But it is much more fun than that last sentence makes it sound.
Bill Casselman
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