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oldbookillustrations, 6 days ago to illustration

The house in which Turner was born, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.
John Wykeham Archer, from "Once a Week," vol. 6, London: 1862 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/turner-house/

Edited because of an unfortunate copy/paste: the comtesse de Ségur had nothing to do with "Once a Week." At all.

patrickworld, 9 days ago to random

The spirit of my dad, in a child’s body, enjoying the cable news coverage of the 34 charges

booksns, 10 days ago to books

https://www.booksns.com/62639/ Book borrowed from Finnish library in 1939 returned 84 years late #books Book borrowed from Finnish library in 1939 returned 84 years late by Pyro-Bird …

CitizenWald, 10 days ago to calligraphy

. @aehdeschaine recent posts about the failure of a news article on #calligraphy to acknowledge historical pioneers prompts me to share some extravagant work by the great George Bickham (1684–1758) and collaborators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bickham_the_Elder

#BookHistory #BookArt @bookhistodons @bookstodon

engraved page of fine penmanship, with additional curlicues and flourishs On the British Nation From British Laws our choicest Blessings come Honour abroad and Liberty at home (these are in a Black Letter script; the rest in English Round hand this one signed by Nathaniel Dove

skeletor, 11 days ago to random

RickJ, 11 days ago to HashtagGames

Dick Chan Airy
#AltSpellitLikeItSounds
#HashtagGames

oldbookillustrations, 11 days ago to illustration

Thirteenth-Century Enamel.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, from "Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance," vol. 2 Paris: 1874 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/enamel-work/

madbarrister, 11 days ago to HashtagGames

Bag of fajitas

#AltSpellItLikeItSounds
#HashTagGames

art_history_animalia, 11 days ago to random

For #WhoopingCraneDay :
N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)
The Dance of the Whooping Cranes, 1939
oil on panel, 30 x 22¼ in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm);
printed as a plate in the illustrated edition of The Yearling (1939)
#BirdsInArt #EndangeredSpecies

graphicpolicy, 11 days ago to comics

Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque's Duck and Cover comes to print in September #comics #comicbooks

https://graphicpolicy.com/2024/05/28/scott-snyder-and-rafael-albuquerques-duck-and-cover-comes-to-print-in-september/

graphicpolicy, 11 days ago to comics

Marvel takes readers to the 85th Century! #comics #comicbooks

https://graphicpolicy.com/2024/05/28/marvel-takes-readers-to-the-85th-century/

graphicpolicy, 12 days ago to comics

Stuck in an Impossible World in Uncanny Valley #3 #comics #comicbooks

https://graphicpolicy.com/2024/05/27/stuck-in-an-impossible-world-in-uncanny-valley-3/

graphicpolicy, 12 days ago to comics

Risk Your Life for the Truth in Blow Away #3 #comics #comicbooks

https://graphicpolicy.com/2024/05/27/risk-your-life-for-the-truth-in-blow-away-3/

MylesRyden, 12 days ago to random

Ambrose Bierce nailing it over a century ago in the Devil's Dictionary:

CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

#coporations #Billionaires

ComicBookProgressive, 12 days ago to comics

#RandomComicBook today. Cover artist #JerryGrandinetti

#comics
#comicbooks

ryanfb, 13 days ago to random

May 26th, 25 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay "little Menches" sends fellow kid Olymbas two toy balls made out of palm as a gift to play with

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/apf;61;326_2

aLFRe, 13 days ago to drugs

http://bit.ly/3Ke2rM2
☝Hunter S.Thompson was a🇺🇸American✍#Writer and journalist.
He wrote for several magazines but the best of his production
was published by📰#RollingStone.
In one of his #Book -an oversized two parts article- "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"(1971) he and a friend set out to find the🇺🇸🤩#AmericanDream
in the💉🩸#Dope decade
to🚗travel with a🧳#SuitCase full of💊#Drugs all over #LasVegas crowded by🤑rich and🤪ridiculous people👇
http://bit.ly/3yC7raL

Detail of Spanish Edition by Círculo De Lectores 1987 of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

oldbookillustrations, 13 days ago to art

Dover.
From "The Argosy," vol. 47, London: 1889 #art #illustration https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dover/

Athenalindia, 13 days ago to books

Sunday Book Nest!

#books

hermeticlibrary, 13 days ago to tarot

Card of the day from the Thoth Deck for May 26

Fortune

https://hermetic.com/crowley/book-of-thoth/atu#x-fortune

🃏 #tarot #ThothDeck #CardOfTheDay #DailyTarot #divination #cartomancy

jdmccafferty, 13 days ago to random

On Trinity Sunday:

Lieven van Lathem The Holy Trinity, 1469

(J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 37, fol. 14)

jdmccafferty, 13 days ago to random

Habited fox (perhaps a Capuchin?) from the Tale of Reynard the Fox,
Allaert van Everdingen, c.1636-1675

jdmccafferty, 13 days ago to london

26 May 1703: d. Samuel Pepys diarist & civil servant at Clapham #London #otd (NPG)

jdmccafferty, 13 days ago to random

Fox (Vulpes vulpes),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

oldbookillustrations, 14 days ago to art

Oh—that bell again! what's this?
John Tenniel, from "Puck on Pegasus" by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, London: 1868 #art #illustration https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ladder/