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  Egg - LoveToKnow 1911
That the egg during this passage turns slowly on its long axis is shown by the fact that the spots and lines have commonly a spiral direction; though some of the markings are made during periods of rest, as is shown by their sharp outlines, movement giving a blurred effect.
In the gobies the egg is spindle-shaped, and attached by one end by means of a network of fibres, resembling rootlets; while in the smelt the egg is loosely suspended by a membrane formed by the peeling off of a part of the outer sheath of the capsule.
The eggs of the degenerate fishes known as the lampreys and hag-fishes are remarkable for the fact that in the latter they are large in size, cylindrical in shape, and provided at each end with hooklets whereby they adhere one to another; while in the lampreys they are extremely small and embedded in a jelly.
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 EGG (O.E. aeg, cf. Ger... - Online Information article about EGG (O.E. aeg, cf. Ger...
Mammalia, are the eggs provided with a large store of yolk, enclosed within a shell, and extruded to undergo development apart from the maternal tissues.
Among the Chelonia the number of eggs varies from two to four in some of the tortoises, to aoo in some of the turtles: while in the crocodiles between 20 and 30 are produced, hard-shelled and white.
smelt the egg is loosely suspended by a membrane formed by the peeling off of a part of the outer sheath of the capsule.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/EGG_OE_aeg_cf_Ger_Ei_Swed_aegg_.html   (5664 words)

  
 Augustus Leopold Egg as Moralizing Pre-Raphaelite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
n a shift from Egg's other, earlier work with Italian subject matter or historical fiction, this member of the Royal Academy began his support of the Pre-Raphaelite movement during the 1850's and soon added to both its success and scope through his own artistic contributions.
Egg, like Hunt and Millais, forces one to take into account several symbolic clues in order to discover what all is occurring in the work.
In the vein of Hogarth's moralizing engravings from a century earlier, such as Industry and Idleness, Egg not only depicts what he sees as moral decay, but he also creates a deterrent to these actions and likewise forewarns of their most dire consequences.
www.victorianweb.org /painting/egg/paintings/may1.html   (383 words)

  
 Augustus Egg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egg was a member of The Clique, a group of artists founded by Richard Dadd and others in the 1840s.
Egg sought to combine popularity with moral and social activism, in line with the literary work of his friend Dickens.
Egg was also an active organiser of exhibitions, being admired by fellow-artists for his dedication and fair mindedness.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustus_Egg   (453 words)

  
 Augustus Leopold Egg RA (1816-1863)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The painter Augustus Egg was the son of an eminent London gunmaker.
Egg's early works were typically Italian subjects, but he later turned to historical fiction and Shakespeare for his picture themes.
Egg became ARA in 1849 and RA in 1861.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/paint/egg.htm   (275 words)

  
 Augustus Egg
Here he benefited so far as his chronic lung disease was concerned; but exposure to a cold wind while out riding brought on an attack of asthma, from which he died on the 26th of March 1863 at Algiers, near which city his remains were buried.
Egg was a gifted and well-trained painter of genre, chiefly in the way of historical anecdote, or of compositions from the poets and novelists.
Egg was rather below the middle height, with dark hair and a handsome well-formed face; the head of Peter the Great (in the picture of Peter and Catharine, which may be regarded as his best work, along with the Life and Death of Buckingham) was studied, but of course considerably modified, from his own countenance.
www.nndb.com /people/478/000097187   (378 words)

  
 Victorian Art in Britain
As a young man Egg was a member of the artistic group 'The Clique,' whose other members included Richard Dadd and W P Frith.
Egg was one of the few Royal Academicians who was sympathetic to, and was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and under their influence turned to painting pictures of modern life.
He was a highly competent and perceptive artist, and in the 'Travelling Companions,' painted in the last year of his life he produced one of the most significant artistic images of his day.
www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /biog/egg.htm   (101 words)

  
 Egg Rock Light (Maine) History
The appearance of Egg Rock Light was somewhat altered in the late 1890s when the original roof was replaced by the present roof with dormers.
In 1902, Egg Rock Light was upgraded with the installation of a new fourth-order lens.
Egg Rock Light is passed by many tour boats and whale watches leaving Bar Harbor.
www.lighthouse.cc /eggrockmaine/history.html   (791 words)

  
 The Ultimate Egg - American History Information Guide and Reference
Some eggs are edible and can be used as food, either on their own or in a recipe.
Egg Plc, is an online bank in the United Kingdom, launched in October 1998.
Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine invertebrates, such as sea urchins.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Egg   (180 words)

  
 Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-1863)
Egg studied at Henry Sass‘s Academy and the Royal Academy Schools.
His historical knowledge and dramatic flare is illustrated in such successes as Launce‘s Substitute for Proteus‘s Dog (1849, Leicester City Art Gallery) and Pepys Introduction to Nell Gwynne (1851).
Egg counted Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins amongst his friends and even performed in the formers amateur theatricals.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /preraphaelites/a_egg.htm   (261 words)

  
 Augustus Egg
Egg, a friend of the writer Charles Dickens, suffered from chronic respiratory disease.
In 1863 Egg was advised that his health would improve if he lived in Africa.
Augustus Leopold Egg died in Algiers on 25th March, 1863.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jegg.htm   (234 words)

  
 The Charles Dickens Museum - Virtual Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Augustus L. Egg (1816-1863), Victorian painter known for his trilogy Past and Present, also painted historical and literary subjects.
Egg, with Frith and other young Victorian artists, founded the "Clique" to rebel against the traditionalism of the Royal Academy.
Egg was also an amateur actor and played in Dickens's company of amateurs.
www.dickensmuseum.com /vtour/secondfloor/hogarth/egg.php   (72 words)

  
 Augustus Egg (1816 - 1863) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Augustus Egg was an English painter specializing in historical and literary themes.
Augustus Edwin John, Four Studies of a Fishergirl of Equihen, circa 1900
Augustus Pugin, A History of the University of 0xford (London: R. Ackermann, 1814), vol.
www.wwar.com /masters/e/egg-augustus.html   (547 words)

  
 Egg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egg (food) Edible eggs normally come from chickens, but they can come from birds, reptiles and amphibians, such as geese or ducks.
Curate's egg, an expression meaning something that is partly good and partly bad.
World egg (or cosmic egg) is a mythological motif
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egg   (261 words)

  
 Buy Augustus Egg The Travelling Companions
Augustus Egg was born in 1816, and studied at the Royal Academy Schools.
Most of his subjects were taken from English history and literature, but the pre-Raphaelite’s encouraged him to paint scenes from contemporary life.
Because of ill health Egg lived abroad for much of his life and died in Algiers in 1863.
www.artland.co.uk /page741.htm   (85 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Shopping : Crafts : Nature : Eggs
Woodland Eggs are ornamental eggs that are lovingly hand crafted in the tranquil mountain woodlands of Maryland.
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ovum (egg or egg cell), the female sex cell in animals and plants.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Shopping-Crafts/Nature-Eggs.shtml   (1649 words)

  
 Augustus Leopold Egg Online
Augustus Leopold Egg in the Art Renewal Center
Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Augustus Leopold Egg
All images and text on this Augustus Leopold Egg page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/egg_augustus_leopold.html   (204 words)

  
 Past and Present 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As Egg's note suggests, she is lost, as good as dead.
These underscore Egg's suggestions in the first painting about the cultural origins of immoral actions.
The painting is set within the interior of a vaginal space, looking outward.
www.english.ccsu.edu /barnetts/courses/vices/Past3.htm   (214 words)

  
 TIME.com: Pictures from a Lost England -- Jul 31, 1978 -- Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In a didactic and moralizing culture, their pictures provided the last opportunity for people to extract information about history, and instruction as to conduct, from painting.
The quintessence of such moralities was Augustus Leopold Egg's Past and Present, 1858, a triptych showing the results of adultery.
Egg has put one foot at least beyond this line." It is hard to see how the century could have produced a more perfect combination of prudery and puzzle-painting, and generations of nostalgists have furtively enjoyed the profusion of symbolic detail that Egg crammed into his canvas.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,946940-2,00.html   (461 words)

  
 Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-1863)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Egg exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858, three pictures as one work about the consequences of female marital infidelity and an excellent example of Victorian moralist paintings.
Egg's trilogy was criticized by one reviewer as: 'Unhealthy in its misery and loathsomeness!'
Five years after the event, the erring wife (featured above) is now destitute.
freespace.virgin.net /k.peart/Victorian/egg.htm   (195 words)

  
 Love Scenes and Scenes of Seduction:
Augustus Egg's triptych, however, poses few problems of interpretation in this drama of a married woman's infidelities.
Egg's paintings stress the hurt to children, both the daughters the woman must leave behind and the unwanted child of her lover, who has, apparently, abandoned her, too.
Augustus Egg, Past and Present III: The Wife Abandoned By Her Lover With Her Bastard Child (1858)
libr.unl.edu:2000 /loveandseduction/explore/themes.php?name=image   (1446 words)

  
 Augustus Egg Posters Prints - Taming of the Shrew Art Giclee Print - Artist: Augustus Egg - Poster Size: 24x18 - ...
Augustus Egg Posters Prints - Taming of the Shrew Art Giclee Print - Artist: Augustus Egg - Poster Size: 24x18
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 The Richard Dadd Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At the Academy, Dadd became friends with John Phillip, who was subsequently to marry Richard's sister Mary Elizabeth, and William Powell Frith (1819-1909), who was subsequently to play a significant role in Victorian genre painting and sontemporary social documentation.
Later, this circle was expanded to include Augustus Egg, Harry Nelson O'Neill, Alfred Elmore, Edward Matthew Ward, Thomas Joy and William Bell Scott.
Dadd's rooms in Newman Street where searched, and the eggs and ale fetish was discovered, along with sketches of Richard's friends and associates, each with a slashed throat.
www.noumenal.com /marc/dadd   (2339 words)

  
 WILKIE COLLINS AND CHARLES DICKENS
The introduction came via their mutual friend, Augustus Egg, who recruited Collins to Dickens's amateur theatrical company.
Other visitors were Wills, Egg, C. Townshend and Dickens's oldest friend Thomas Beard, the elder brother of Frank Beard who became the doctor of both Dickens and Collins.
In 1855 Collins was invited for the first time to act in the Twelfth Night children's theatricals at Tavistock House.
www.wilkie-collins.info /wilkie_collins_dickens.htm   (2970 words)

  
 the thorough good cook - recipe - Bandalled Eggs
Hollander and Hechsher, publishers of the Eat Dangerously cookbook, have a commitment to issue one expired-copyright book in the public domain for every book they publish.
with butter, and introduce this into the egg.
together, and stand the joined eggs on end in the dish.
www.eatdangerously.com /thorough_cook/eggs/bandalled_eggs.html   (185 words)

  
 SSRA: Solomon Biography - last updated 11/13/05
His mother Kate Levy Solomon was an amateur artist of miniatures, and his elder siblings Abraham (1823-1862) and Rebecca (1832-1886) were artists who were influential on Solomon’s early artistic development.
He was officially admitted to the Royal Academy Schools on 24 April 1856, having been proposed by the Victorian painter Augustus Egg, R.A. About this time Solomon started an informal Sketching Club with his fellow students and friends Marcus Stone and Henry Holiday.
Solomon was early on influenced by Shakespeare and the Bible.
www.simeonsolomon.org /bio.html   (1075 words)

  
 Talking to Charles Dickens
Fagin tempts Oliver during a dress rehearsal of the musical, Oliver Twist, performed by the Dickensian Tabard Players in the courtyard of the George Inn, Southwark in London, a venue closely associated with the author Charles Dickens.
"Past and Present" No3, by Augustus Egg,1858 www.engl.virginia.edu/~mhc/dickens.html.
Charles Dickens, who also wrote under the pseudonym Boz.
www.talkingto.co.uk /ttcd/html/ttcd_ackn.asp?AuthorID=5   (112 words)

  
 The Meadows
*I was the second Isle horse to come and live here*, Augustus explains.
There is an egg in a box with a note next to it saying:
We know it's a equine egg, but we don't know what exactly is inside.
www.angelfire.com /games/kilkenny/horses.html   (289 words)

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