Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. France, c. 1450-1470
Melchior Lorck - Tortoise above the Venetian Lagoon. 1555
I think I’ve had this dream.
silently watching: The Lungfish
Supple and secret, the deepfish, the lungfish
mud-sleeping, silt-stirring, fins fern-furling
keeps cased in his eel’s body
a burning stone
flaming, it fell from the sky
he gulped it down whole, and knew
from that day he would not die
and so he watches hastening generations
of…
Richard Wilson, The Russian story book, containing tales from the song-cycles of Kiev and Novgorod and other early sources (1916). Illustrations by Frank Cheyne Papé
Tea With Me and He by Ray Caesar
Maurice Sand, Werewolves, (c.1852)
Illustration for “Légendes Rustiques” by George Sand.
Werewolves waiting for johns?
The Story of Little Red Riding Hood
She discovers a wolf in place of the elderly lady, 1858
Four-toned albumen print
From Henry Peach Robinson: Master of Photographic Art 1830-1901
Max Ernst’s Une Semaine de Bonte
Velvet
The undersea ‘Realm of Glass’ set from The Thief of Bagdad (1924, dir. Raoul Walsh) Art direction by William Cameron Menzies.
To prepare the set for the underwater world, a family of artisans spent three months hand-blowing the required glass pieces.
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Anna Pavlova
