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Hans Christian Andersen's Blog

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Since Bibliodyssey recently did a post on Facebook in the 1750s, I feel justified in pointing at Hans Christian Andersen's Tumblr-like collections of images and words at the Odense museum.

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He also had an interesting way with a papercut:

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Found via airform archives.

See also:

How We Got Our Speedle

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Comments

Hi, Wonderful ..... Copenhagen and all that malarkey. There's an exhibition of paper cuts at the Horniman Museum, London - Wycinanki: The Art of Polish Paper Cuts.

hi- great info- I have some of these on cards I won at an auction! these are wonderful. thanks, always enjoy your posts

hey this is a very interesting article!

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!