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Garden-land - illustration by Harrison Cady - 1907 - via Internet Archive

I always approve of ladies having a chill time with dragons. Who needs to be a damsel in distress? artist unknown

Art source: Dragon Resting Its Head On The Lap Of A Woman - R. Leinweber (1912)

I love this picture because the body language (human and draconic) reminds me so much of when the dog decides she really, really needs to be at least half in my lap while I’m chilling with my computer.

Like, the dragon is all I adore you so much please pet behind my ears please and the lady is just sigh fine you always do this and I was going to get up for a glass of water but I guess I kind of love you too.

“Jeanne d'Arc”, 1903

Albert Lynch

From The Life of the Bee, illustrated by Edward Detmold, 1912.

Sir Anthony Wingfield kept a menagerie of tame animals at Ampthill House, in Bedford, England, in the early 1900s. He kept a staff of uniformed keepers (the men in the above pictures) who took care of, harnessed and rode the animals and his butler earned extra money by taking photographs of visitors atop their unusual steeds.

A video was made in 1909 and is described as follows: ‘ Pigs are harnessed to carts, and driven like horses. Dromedaries do the ploughing, and are also ridden. Two ostriches, ridden by two man take part in a race. They are guided by taps of a thin stick upon their long necks. Finally we see a procession of various wild animals, including zebras, yaks, and llamas, ridden by men, and two donkeys ridden by one man – he falls off.’

Part of that video (the procession) appears to viewable here although it unfortunately does not include anyone falling off a donkey.

Sometime in the 1920s the animals were moved to Whipsnade Zoo and, sadly, in 1953, just a year after Wingfield’s death, Ampthill was demolished and replaced with an estate.

Abandoned (1901) - Jaroslav Panuška

Ernst Haeckel. Lichenes, Artforms of Nature (Kuntsformen der Natur). 1904. 

Ernst Haeckel

Art Nouveau Necklage, Agnès Fool, ca. 1902

Céline Laguarde (1873-1961), Stella - 1904.

Stephen Haweis

Mina Loy, Paris, 1905

[via All Things Amazing]

The Earth with the Milky Way and Moon (1918 - Charcoal on paper) - Władysław T. Benda

Egon Schiele Mountain Torrent 1918

“The Peacock Dress,” 1902

Designed by House of Worth

Worn by Lady Curzon, Vicereine of India, at the Delhi Durbar which celebrated of the coronation of Edward VII. The gold, silk, and beetle wing fabric was created in India and sent to Paris to be made into the dress by House of Worth.

via National Trust

Arthur Rackham, The Questing Beast, The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.