On Monday I blogged about this portrait of Richard Croft’s children—where Herbert, aged ten, is lying in the pose of Melancholy, in the background in partial shadow, due to his having died.
The children’s father, the 6th Baronet Richard Croft,… Read More
The passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction during the last century. One method used by hunters was to sew a decoy pigeon’s eyes closed to attract other pigeons. It was called a “stool;” hence the term “stool pigeon.”
source: from an article by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye.