Blank Paper (I)
“Paper ready to your hand,” a cognitive ecology of the simplest sort. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759–1767). Courtesy William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
CONCEPTION SUMMARY
The Triumph of Galatea
Raphael Sanzio’s fresco at the Villa Farnesina. The Triumph of Galatea signaled a new phase in Raphael's career. Villa Farnesina, Rome © Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.
William Hunter, by Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds has captured William Hunter as he was in life-- installing him, as though in a diorama, among his medical preparations. GLAHA 43793. © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 2014.
Hunter's Conception
A single folio sheet folded in half, offering a rudimentary illustrated handbook of obstetric anatomy. MS Hunter FH224. Courtesy Special Collections Department, University of Glasgow.
A Conception at Five Weeks
An image of a fetus at five weeks, from William Hunter and Jan van Rymsdyk's Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata (London, 1774), plate 34.1. Courtesy Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
Laurence Sterne, by Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds, Laurence Sterne. Sterne has either just finished, or just conceived, his brainchild and magnum opus, Tristram Shandy. NPG 5019 (c) National Portrait Gallery, London.