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La Femme Chauve-Souris (1890 / Oil on canvas) - Albert Joseph Pénot
The Bat Woman (Albert Joseph Pénot, 1890).
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Albert Aublet, Selene, 1880, oil on canvas, 143.8 x 115.5 cm 🎨
Selene (Albert Aublet, 1880).
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“The Mirror of Venus“ by Edward Burne-Jones (1875).
The Mirror of Venus (Edward Burne-Jones, 1875).
Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there IS no Space and no Time: WE are—we know not what;—light-sparkles floating in the ether of Deity!
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1836
This Dreaming, this Somnambulism is what we on Earth call Life; wherein the most indeed undoubtingly wander, as if they knew right hand from left; yet they only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1836
Page from Albert Kretschmer & Carl Rohrbach’s Die Trachten der Volker, vom Beginn der Geschichte bis zum 19. Jahrhundert—featuring illustrations of Druidic priests, Gallic warriors, and the British Queen Boudicea (aka Boudicca aka Boudica aka Boadicea) (art by Albert Kretschmer, 1882).
(via eBay)
Cover to Stanislas de Guaita’s Temple of Satan—Rebis Edition (unknown artist/designer, 2015).
(via Il Giardino dei Libri)
Cover to William Godwin’s Lives of the Necromancers—Chatto & Windus Golden Library Edition (artist/designer unknown, mid 19th century).
Diogenes Sitting in His Tub (Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1860).
(via Wikipedia)
Illustrations from Lucian of Samosata’s A True Story—originally written in the 2nd century CE (Aubrey Beardsley, 1894).
(via Project Gutenberg)
Illustrations from Lucian of Samosata’s A True Story—originally written in the 2nd century CE (William Strang, 1894).
(via Project Gutenberg)
Portrait of René Descartes (with color detail) (Claude Jacquand & A. Baudran, 19th century).
Engraving print depicting the German city of Zwönitz, the Trinitatiskirche (the coat of arms of the family of Karl Gotthelf von Hund, and an allegory about blindness (unknown artist, 1803).
Paintings by Yoshitoshi (late 19th century).
(via Pinterest, Naver, & Eric Brightwell)
Magic show posters advertising the stage performances of John Nevil Maskelyne and George Alfred Cooke at London’s Egyptian Hall (unknown artists/designers, late 19th century).
(via Art Fund_, Harry Ransom Center, & The Stage)
Frontispiece to Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris (artist unknown, 1845).
(via Abe Books)