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Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) for Dante's Divina Comedia. Botticelli followed Dante's text pretty closely. He mapped out his projected 100-sheet traversal of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven by making a chart of funnel-shaped Hell. Its lowest pits hold the worst sinners. The chart carefully lays out the various levels. There is no final illustration of the celestial paradise. The last page, now lost, was blank. Maybe Botticelli thought it wasn't possible. This drawing triggered the whole book Drawings On Geology, because Botticelli, has turned the idea of the world as a place with layers of landscapes as a world with layers of stories. This book is often reffered to as being the first comic book.

Waterspout, anonymous/ US, found at picture library New York

Anonymous, Disaster drawing from 1799 of flude over the city of Nijmegen

Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970, (Survival guide from US NAVY)

Raymond Pettibon, the bright flatness, 2003, pen & ink on paper, 99.1 x 98.4cm / 39 x 38 3/4 inch, Courtesy Regen projects, LA

Satoru Eguchi, Untitled, 2002, 11 1/2 x 9 inches, graphite on paper

Le Corbusier (real name Charles-Eduard Jeanneret), Swiss (1887-1965), Small sketch from a plan to have a crossroad above instead of in a town, collection MoMa NYC

Kinke Kooi, Zwarte Wolk/Black Cloud, 1995, acrylic pencil on paper, 41 x 57 cm, private collection

Anonymous, Dutch 17th century, what makes this drawing special is the very high point of view, giving the view of lot's of flatness and a little sky, instead of the normal opposite in dutch landcapes.

Anonymous, 18th century, this is a vertical map for ships sailing in the Dutch innersea (ijselmeer). The silouettes are of villages, harbours etc.

Anonymous 21st century, "Cheverita", French goat cheese wrap,
(the inner image of a friendly goat has been cut out)

Carlos Roque, Untitled, 2004, Ink on Paper, 48 x 61 cm, Col/PCR,
private collection, Lisbon

Maria bussmann, pencil on paper, 2003

Paul Noble, Nobspital, 1997-98, pencil on paper, 8' 2 1/2" x 59", MoMa/Courtesy Bravin + Lee NY

Anonymous, Mine, British, 18th century

Anonymous, from the dutch geology book: Wat vind ik in de bodem?, 1963

Ellen Harvey & Alice Smits, pen on bierviltje, (2 ladies explaining something to each other in bar Eik & Linde, Amsterdam 2000)

Ben Polsky, Oil Company Survey (01), 2003, graphite on mylar, 18" x 24" courtesy Luxe Gallery NY

Satoru Eguchi, Untitled, 2002, 14 x 16 1/2 inches, ink and colored, pencil on paper

Ben Polsky, woodpile .01, 2003, graphite transfer and brasspoint on rabbit skin glue gessoed panel, 5" x 6.5", Courtesy of Luxe Gallery NYC

Carl Friedrich von Rumhor (1777), 18th century

Anonymous, Hong-Kong Manga

Roy McMakin, courtesy Matthew Marks, NY

illustration from Jules Vernes's 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), War, Woodblock print

Olav Westphalen, boy meets girl, ink on paper 2001, Courtesy of Maccarone inc., NYC

Paul Nassenstein, 2001 pencil on paper

Napoleon Bonaparte - Attack plan. This is drawing made in 1805 by an engineer for Napoleon to invade England with 140.000 soldiers by balloons, boats & a tunnel. The whole plan was canceled when Admiral Nelson brought the French fleet down at Trafalgar.

Anonymous, Mine, German 16th century

Anonymous 17th century, the art of dredge; ("baggeren" in Dutch ), transforming water into land, without baggeren there would be no Holland

Henri Riviére, from the series "Les 36 vues de la Tour Eiffel", 1902, "Dans la Tour"

George-Pierre Seurat, conté drawing for "dimanche après-midi à l'île de la Grande Jatte", 1866

Serge Onnen, 2003, bathroom park (for the park series), water color on paper, 40 x 60 cm

Ando Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858), woodblock print

Anonymous, Courtesy of Cooper Edens, & Princeton Architectural press

anonymous 15th century

Robert Longo , BOMB DRAWINGS for the series: "Lust of the Eye", Untitled (Bikini Atoll/ Baker, 1946), Charcoal on mounted paper, 72 x 102 inches (183 x 259cm), 2003

Paul Nassenstein, 2001 pencil on paper

MVRDV, sketch for dutch pavilion at HANNOVER, World fair 2000
(see also www.mvrdv.nl)

Ando Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858), woodblock print

Marc Smeets, Venlo Holland, with thanks to Luc Smeets

Serge Onnen, treehouse (for the series : "capsules"), mixed media on paper 100 x 70 cm, 2000

Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970, (Survival guide from US NAVY)

October 17, 1884, collapse of the railroad bridge over the Little Miami River at Batavia, Ohio, from "Train Wrecks, A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line", by Robert C. Reed, 1968

William Wegman, Gulls/Waves, 1973, Pencil on paper 8 1/2 x 11inch

Maria Bussmann, pencil on paper, 2003

Toba Khedoori, 1996, untitled (seats), oil and wax on paper, 11 feet 6 inches x 25 feet, courtesy Regen projects LA

Mark Dion, dump, pencil on paper 2001, 21 x 28 cm,
Courtesy Colin de Land/American Fine Arts, NY

Anonymous, from the dutch geology book: Wat vind ik in de bodem?, 1963

David Shrigley, ink on paper 1989, Courtesy of Nicolai Wallner (Denmark)

anonymous Dutch, 16th Century, "colonisation" map of dutch land on sea.

Anonymous, found in book on the 2th floor in the library next to my house.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), a room filling up with water, ink on paper

Anonymous, Flude 17th century Dutch

Anonymous, 18th century, this is a vertical map for ships sailing in the Dutch innersea (ijselmeer), the silouettes are of villages, harbours etc.

Christine Rusche, FRAMED SPACES 02 (SSLL), ink-pen on mylar, 91 x 65 cm, 2002,
courtesy: Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Hans Broek, sketch for urban composition, 2002, 75 x 105,5 cm, Courtesy Tanja Rumpff, NL

19th century Dredging machine, Anonymous

Daragh Reeve, passenger, 2004, 80cm x 60cm, ink on paper

Anonymous, napkin from rotating bar at Marriott Marquis,
New York City

Karel Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), natural cave near Trieste Italy, etching

Aan Solleveld, graphite pencil on paper, 72 x 102 cm, 2003, Courtesy of Motive Gallery Amsterdam

The Alimentary Road by Otto Soglow, 1930, From the book You Are here (Princeton Architerural Press) and , Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera, George Chappell, edited by Katharine Harmon

Carlos Roque, 'As If We Could Have Come Full Circle', 2004, computer sketch, study for a painting

David Shrigley, ink on paper, 1989, Courtesy of Nicolai Wallner Gallery (Denmark)

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), drawing

Grandville (1803-1847), etching, Eclipse

Robert Longo, Nagasaki, 2003, charcoal mounted on paper, 96 x 72 inch/ 243.8 x 182. 9 cm

Anonymous, natural disaster in Vuren Holland, 1799

Anonymous 18th century, drawing from an Iceberg by one of the dicoverers of Nova Zembla, in the Berginger Sea, The text under the drawing decribes in Dutch an Iceberg they named Bears Mountain.

Mathilde ter Heijne, 1 of 500 drawings made for the CD-Rom For a better world,
42 x 29,7 cm, 2000

Matthew Monahan, Excerpt from the book of China, 60 x 24 inches, carbon ink on rice paper, 2003, courtesy of Anton Kern Galllery NY

Arnoud Holleman, pencil on paper 2002

Anounymous illustration from Jonnathan Swift, Gulliver's travel, The air floating island laputa. Swift had used the Spanish slang word for "whore" ("la puta") as the name of the original castle in the sky. The people in Swift's Laputa were absent-minded technologists who oppressed the lands below them by cutting off the sunlight to them. In that sense Swift's choice of the name does not make any sense, and I have not been able to find anything which explains why he chose that particular name.

Anonymous, found in book on the 3th floor in the library next to my house.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), a rain of tools, ink on paper

Pope Sixtus V (Pope from 1585 to 1590), pilgrims map

Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970,
(Survival guide from US NAVY)

Anonymous, (sent to me by an anonymous person)

Anonymous, drawing from the bay of Havana, Dutch 17th century

Roy McMakin, courtesy Matthew Marks, NY

Anonymous, Vesuvius, 19th century, etching, volcano in Sicilie/italie

Geert Dekkers, Pencil on paper, 2002

Anonymous, found in book on the 3th floor in the library next to my house.

MVRDV, sketch for dutch pavilion at HANNOVER, World fair 2000 (see also www.mvrdv.nl)

Dan Ford, Shell, watercolor on paper, courtesy of Pierogi, Brooklyn, 2002

Sebastiaan Bremer, JAN, 2002, 27 1/2 x 28 3/8 inch, inkt op c print, courtesy Roebling Hall

Claude Nicolas Ledoux, (1736-1806) France
Visionary achitect from whom only bridges where built and none of his amazing buildings.

Anonymous, rainbow, (found on internet)

anonymous 17th century, the bay of Cape Town (South Africa), Drawn by captain of ship

Anonymous, (after Russell) (?), Waterspouts off coast of New South Wales,
(image found in NYPL picture library) (tornado file)

Raymond Pettibon, No fountain from, 2003, pen & ink on paper,
121,9 x 129,5 cm / 48 x 51inch, Courtesy Regen projects, LA

Dan Ford, White Castle, ink on paper, courtesy of Peirogi, Brooklyn, US

Toba Khedoori, 1998, untitled (walkway), oil and wax on paper, 138 x 78 1/2 inches, courtesy Regen projects LA

Anonymous, from the dutch geology book: Wat vind ik in de bodem?, 1963

Paul Noble, Pencil on paper, Courtesy Bravin + Lee NY

(detail) Paul Noble, Pencil on paper, Courtesy Bravin + Lee NY

Mark Dion, travel trough the city beneath the dump, pencil on paper 2001, 21 x 28 cm,
Courtesy Colin de Land/American Fine Arts, NY

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Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) for Dante's Divina Comedia. Botticelli followed Dante's text pretty closely. He mapped out his projected 100-sheet traversal of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven by making a chart of funnel-shaped Hell. Its lowest pits hold the worst sinners. The chart carefully lays out the various levels. There is no final illustration of the celestial paradise. The last page, now lost, was blank. Maybe Botticelli thought it wasn't possible. This drawing triggered the whole book Drawings On Geology, because Botticelli, has turned the idea of the world as a place with layers of landscapes as a world with layers of stories. This book is often reffered to as being the first comic book.	Waterspout, anonymous/ US, found at picture library New York

Anonymous, Disaster drawing from 1799 of flude over the city of Nijmegen	Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970, (Survival guide from US NAVY)

Raymond Pettibon, the bright flatness, 2003, pen & ink on paper, 99.1 x 98.4cm / 39 x 38 3/4 inch, Courtesy Regen projects, LA	Satoru Eguchi, Untitled, 2002, 11 1/2 x 9 inches, graphite on paper

Le Corbusier (real name Charles-Eduard Jeanneret), Swiss (1887-1965), Small sketch from a plan to have a crossroad above instead of in a town, collection MoMa NYC	Kinke Kooi, Zwarte Wolk/Black Cloud, 1995, acrylic pencil on paper, 41 x 57 cm, private collection

Anonymous, Dutch 17th century, what makes this drawing special is the very high point of view, giving the view of lot's of flatness and a little sky, instead of the normal opposite in dutch landcapes.	Anonymous, 18th century, this is a vertical map for ships sailing in the Dutch innersea (ijselmeer). The silouettes are of villages, harbours etc.

Anonymous 21st century, "Cheverita", French goat cheese wrap, (the inner image of a friendly goat has been cut out)	Carlos Roque, Untitled, 2004, Ink on Paper, 48 x 61 cm, Col/PCR, private collection, Lisbon

Maria bussmann, pencil on paper, 2003	Paul Noble, Nobspital, 1997-98, pencil on paper, 8' 2 1/2" x 59", MoMa/Courtesy Bravin + Lee NY

Anonymous, Mine, British, 18th century	Anonymous, from the dutch geology book: Wat vind ik in de bodem?, 1963

Ellen Harvey & Alice Smits, pen on bierviltje, (2 ladies explaining something to each other in bar Eik & Linde, Amsterdam 2000)	Ben Polsky, Oil Company Survey (01), 2003, graphite on mylar, 18" x 24" courtesy Luxe Gallery NY

Satoru Eguchi, Untitled, 2002, 14 x 16 1/2 inches, ink and colored, pencil on paper	Ben Polsky, woodpile .01, 2003, graphite transfer and brasspoint on rabbit skin glue gessoed panel, 5" x 6.5", Courtesy of Luxe Gallery NYC

Carl Friedrich von Rumhor (1777), 18th century	Anonymous, Hong-Kong Manga

Roy McMakin, courtesy Matthew Marks, NY	illustration from Jules Vernes's 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), War, Woodblock print	Olav Westphalen, boy meets girl, ink on paper 2001, Courtesy of Maccarone inc., NYC

Paul Nassenstein, 2001 pencil on paper	Napoleon Bonaparte - Attack plan. This is drawing made in 1805 by an engineer for Napoleon to invade England with 140.000 soldiers by balloons, boats & a tunnel. The whole plan was canceled when Admiral Nelson brought the French fleet down at Trafalgar.

57 Anonymous, Mine, German 16th century	59 Anonymous 17th century, the art of dredge; ("baggeren" in Dutch ), transforming water into land, without baggeren there would be no Holland

Henri Riviére, from the series "Les 36 vues de la Tour Eiffel", 1902, "Dans la Tour"	George-Pierre Seurat, conté drawing for "dimanche après-midi à l'île de la Grande Jatte", 1866

Serge Onnen, 2003, bathroom park (for the park series), water color on paper, 40 x 60 cm	Ando Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858), woodblock print

Anonymous, Courtesy of Cooper Edens, & Princeton Architectural press	anonymous 15th century

Robert Longo , BOMB DRAWINGS for the series: "Lust of the Eye", Untitled (Bikini Atoll/ Baker, 1946), Charcoal on mounted paper, 72 x 102 inches (183 x 259cm), 2003	Paul Nassenstein, 2001 pencil on paper

MVRDV, sketch for dutch pavilion at HANNOVER, World fair 2000 (see also www.mvrdv.nl)	Ando Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858), woodblock print

Marc Smeets, Venlo Holland, with thanks to Luc Smeets	Serge Onnen, treehouse (for the series : "capsules"), mixed media on paper 100 x 70 cm, 2000

Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970, (Survival guide from US NAVY)	October 17, 1884, collapse of the railroad bridge over the Little Miami River at Batavia, Ohio, from "Train Wrecks, A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line", by Robert C. Reed, 1968

William Wegman, Gulls/Waves, 1973, Pencil on paper 8 1/2 x 11inch	Maria Bussmann, pencil on paper, 2003

Toba Khedoori, 1996, untitled (seats), oil and wax on paper, 11 feet 6 inches x 25 feet, courtesy Regen projects LA	Hannes Kater , (www.hanneskater.com), Made-to-order drawing Sample 027, This is what happened: Yesterday I sneaked into the ground zero hole. Actually, I had no idea that this was possible, but I just passed the gate and walked down, and nobody really took notice. The first 3 levels down, everything is still quite messy, but the rest of the 119 below zero floors, are perfectly intact. I took the speed elevator to go all the way to the bottom floor -121 to enjoy the view. It was a clear day and you could really see far away. All the way down, all of negative -Manhattan, the subways, the negative of the statue of Liberty, the roots of central park, really very nice. I had a negative-coffee at the cafeteria and the white servant that worked at the counter, really thought I was telling her a joke when I said that all the positive had been blown away 2 years earlier. Based on Serge Onnen story, 22x28 cm, 2002

Mark Dion, dump, pencil on paper 2001, 21 x 28 cm, Courtesy Colin de Land/American Fine Arts, NY	Anonymous, from the dutch geology book: Wat vind ik in de bodem?, 1963

David Shrigley, ink on paper 1989, Courtesy of Nicolai Wallner (Denmark)	anonymous Dutch, 16th Century, "colonisation" map of dutch land on sea.

Anonymous, found in book on the 2th floor in the library next to my house.	Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), a room filling up with water, ink on paper

Anonymous, Flude 17th century Dutch	Anonymous, 18th century, this is a vertical map for ships sailing in the Dutch innersea (ijselmeer), the silouettes are of villages, harbours etc.

Christine Rusche, FRAMED SPACES 02 (SSLL), ink-pen on mylar, 91 x 65 cm, 2002, courtesy: Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA	Anonymous, Dutch 17th century, what makes this drawing special is the very high point of view, giving the view of lot's of flatness and a little sky, instead of the normal opposite in dutch landcapes.

Hans Broek, sketch for urban composition, 2002, 75 x 105,5 cm, Courtesy Tanja Rumpff, NL	19th century Dredging machine, Anonymous

Daragh Reeve, passenger, 2004, 80cm x 60cm, ink on paper	Anonymous, napkin from rotating bar at Marriott Marquis, New York City

Karel Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), natural cave near Trieste Italy, etching	Aan Solleveld, graphite pencil on paper, 72 x 102 cm, 2003, Courtesy of Motive Gallery Amsterdam

The Alimentary Road by Otto Soglow, 1930, From the book You Are here (Princeton Architerural Press) and , Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera, George Chappell, edited by Katharine Harmon	Carlos Roque, 'As If We Could Have Come Full Circle', 2004, computer sketch, study for a painting

David Shrigley, ink on paper, 1989, Courtesy of Nicolai Wallner Gallery (Denmark)	Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), drawing

Grandville (1803-1847), etching, Eclipse	Robert Longo, Nagasaki, 2003, charcoal mounted on paper, 96 x 72 inch/ 243.8 x 182. 9 cm

Anonymous, natural disaster in Vuren Holland, 1799	Anonymous 18th century, drawing from an Iceberg by one of the dicoverers of Nova Zembla, in the Berginger Sea, The text under the drawing decribes in Dutch an Iceberg they named Bears Mountain.

Mathilde ter Heijne, 1 of 500 drawings made for the CD-Rom For a better world, 42 x 29,7 cm, 2000	Matthew Monahan, Excerpt from the book of China, 60 x 24 inches, carbon ink on rice paper, 2003, courtesy of Anton Kern Galllery NY

Arnoud Holleman, pencil on paper 2002	Anounymous illustration from Jonnathan Swift, Gulliver's travel, The air floating island laputa. Swift had used the Spanish slang word for "whore" ("la puta") as the name of the original castle in the sky. The people in Swift's Laputa were absent-minded technologists who oppressed the lands below them by cutting off the sunlight to them. In that sense Swift's choice of the name does not make any sense, and I have not been able to find anything which explains why he chose that particular name.

Anonymous, found in book on the 3th floor in the library next to my house.	Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), a rain of tools, ink on paper

Pope Sixtus V (Pope from 1585 to 1590), pilgrims map	Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970, (Survival guide from US NAVY)

Anonymous, from FM 21-76, department of Army field manual 1970, (Survival guide from US NAVY)	Anonymous, (sent to me by an anonymous person)

Anonymous, drawing from the bay of Havana, Dutch 17th century	Roy McMakin, courtesy Matthew Marks, NY

Anonymous, Vesuvius, 19th century, etching, volcano in Sicilie/italie	Geert Dekkers, Pencil on paper, 2002

Anonymous, found in book on the 3th floor in the library next to my house.	MVRDV, sketch for dutch pavilion at HANNOVER, World fair 2000 (see also www.mvrdv.nl)

Dan Ford, Shell, watercolor on paper, courtesy of Pierogi, Brooklyn, 2002	Sebastiaan Bremer, JAN, 2002, 27 1/2 x 28 3/8 inch, inkt op c print, courtesy Roebling Hall

Claude Nicolas Ledoux, (1736-1806) France Visionary achitect from whom only bridges where built and none of his amazing buildings.	Anonymous, rainbow, (found on internet)

anonymous 17th century, the bay of Cape Town (South Africa), Drawn by captain of ship	Anonymous, (after Russell) (?), Waterspouts off coast of New South Wales, (image found in NYPL picture library) (tornado file)

Raymond Pettibon, No fountain from, 2003, pen & ink on paper, 121,9 x 129,5 cm / 48 x 51inch, Courtesy Regen projects, LA	Dan Ford, White Castle, ink on paper, courtesy of Peirogi, Brooklyn, US

Toba Khedoori, 1998, untitled (walkway), oil and wax on paper, 138 x 78 1/2 inches, courtesy Regen projects LA	Anonymous, from the dutch geology book: Wat vind ik in de bodem?, 1963

Paul Noble, Pencil on paper, Courtesy Bravin + Lee NY	(detail) Paul Noble, Pencil on paper, Courtesy Bravin + Lee NY

Mark Dion, travel trough the city beneath the dump, pencil on paper 2001, 21 x 28 cm, Courtesy Colin de Land/American Fine Arts, NY