Pearls

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Radio Listeners' Guide and Call Book, Volume 3, Number 2, November 1928: cover art showing imagined future of television: image by Swtpc, July 2008

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

William Shakespeare: Ariel's song, from The Tempest (1610-1611), I.ii

Girl with Pearl Earring: Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), c. 1665 (Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague)


Woman with a Pearl Necklace: Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), c. 1660-1665 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)


Magdalen (detail): Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610), 1594-1596 (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome)



One angry looking Egret in front of HMAS Protector, Heron Island, Queensland: photo by Sirrob01, 2008

Small tank on the Nippo Maru. Sunk during World War II. Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia: photo by Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR, 27 September 2010 (NOAA Photo Library)

Looking through hole in Da Na Hino Maru. Sunk during World War II. Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia: photo by David Burdick, NOAA/NMFS/OPR, 27 September 2010 (NOAA Photo Library)

Shipwreck in Tobermory, Full Fathom Five National Marine Park, Canada: photo by Bruce County, 25 June 2008

Black pearl in its shell: photo by Mila Zinkova, 2007