Woman Eating Hemp, 18th Century

‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp),  by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)     oil on canvas     Watercolor with pen and ink       “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it Read More …

After Eating Hasheesh, 1895

After Eating Hasheesh During quite a good half hour I felt nothing in any way abnormal, but when the meal was drawing to its close a subtle warmth, which came, as it were, in gusts to my head and seemed Read More …