In these bewildering landscapes (ca. 1689) by Ferdinand van Kessel, 64 cities across 4 continents are depicted as mere backdrops to the antics of animals — the built environment of the human world almost superfluous. More here: https://bit.ly/3IPvulO https://bit.ly/35l4j4E
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Mar 29, 2022
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The Climax, Aubrey Beardsley, 1894.
This and other works by Beardsley — who died #onthisday in 1898 — available as prints in our online shop here: https://bit.ly/3tXmIge #otd https://bit.ly/3MXXjMc
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Mar 16, 2022
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French novelist Jules Verne died #onthisday in 1905. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — https://t.co/D7jAUweInr #otd pic.twitter.com/WmQwiObKGk
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Details from The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by the British painter Richard Dadd, who died #onthisday in 1886 whilst in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Read more on the man and his mesmerising work in Nicholas Tromans' essay — https://t.co/TdPHcTbNxK #OTD pic.twitter.com/zf302mjH0g
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) January 7, 2021
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on: January 07, 2021 at 11:26AM
City streets, a winepress, pulleys, spinning tops, a ray fish, curdled milk: some of the images used by anatomist Andreas Vesalius (who died #onthisday in 1564) to explain the workings of the human body. Marri Lynn explores: https://t.co/1yKGCU0J6Y #OTD pic.twitter.com/JATCMqw4sG
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) October 15, 2020
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"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis #onthisday in 1931. She was aged just 30.
More of her magical illustrations here: https://t.co/yFq610eQ2r #OTD pic.twitter.com/6E8sbOnnQ9
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One of a great series of drawings depicting balloonfish and pufferfish made during the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. More here: https://t.co/Qm27fPzl2k pic.twitter.com/U965XQ4Dxe
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on: March 04, 2020 at 11:32AM
Illustration from Eskimo Folktales (1921), a book of Greenlandic Inuit folktales collected by the legendary explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen. More here: https://t.co/C9h7voRZhn pic.twitter.com/pgZ1bO98qP
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) December 17, 2019
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on: December 17, 2019 at 02:35PM
Wanderings of a Comet, by J. J. Grandville, 1844.
Buy print here: https://t.co/VyuNo0Sq8M
No.2 of our Top 10 best-selling prints. See our full selection here: https://t.co/1gAB1Z4QUn pic.twitter.com/uDvZ3FFMVg
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) December 2, 2019
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on: December 02, 2019 at 02:19PM
Fireworks at the Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858.
Available to buy as a print in our shop: https://t.co/PrQnTa79Rv #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks pic.twitter.com/Df5XGP4NYL
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) November 5, 2019
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on: November 05, 2019 at 02:23PM