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Mother Carey
Mother Carey is a supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of 18th- and 19th-century English-speaking sailors. The entity was supposed to be a harbinger of storms and a similar character to Davy Jones' Locker, Davy Jones (who may be her husband). The name seems to be derived from the Latin expression ''Mater cara'' ("Precious Mother"), which sometimes refers to the Virgin Mary. John Masefield described her in the poem "Mother Carey (as told me by the bo'sun)" in his collection ''Salt Water Ballads'' (1902). Here she and Davy Jones are a fearsome couple responsible for storms and ship-wrecks. In a C. Fox Smith poem entitled "Mother Carey", she calls old sailors to return to the sea. The character appears as a fairy in Charles Kingsley's ''The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, The Water Babies''. She lives near the North Pole and helps Tom find the Other-end-of-Nowhere. She is shown in one of Jessie Willcox Smith's illustratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gerrard Keulemans
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans) (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912) was a Dutch bird illustrator. For most of his life he lived and worked in England, illustrating many of the best-known ornithology books of the nineteenth century. Biography Keulemans was born in Rotterdam. As a young man he collected animal specimens for museums such as the Natural History Museum in Leiden, whose director, Hermann Schlegel, encouraged Keulemans and sent him on the 1864 expedition to West Africa. In 1869, he was persuaded by Richard Bowdler Sharpe to illustrate his '' Monograph of the Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers'' (1868-1871) and to move to England, where he lived for the rest of his life. He was married twice, and had eight children by his first wife and seven children by his second wife. Only nine of his children reached adulthood. He also wrote topics on spirituality, and claimed he had a premonition at the moment of death of one of his sons. He died in Ilford, Essex (now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
