arsvitaest:

“Music Lesson”

Author: Gustav Wentzel (Norwegian, 1859-1927)
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas

vajert:

Fantastic tiles by illustrator Laura Carlin

(Source: remodelista.com, via the-zoo-keeper)

heaveninawildflower:

Plate from The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Vol. 5 (1906).

Adalbert Seitz (1860–1938)

http://www.archive.org/details/macrolepidoptera15seit via Wikimedia.

poboh:

Dům pod stromy / House under trees, Vojtěch Preissig. Czech (1873 - 1944)

zombienormal:

The Toilet of Salome, a design in pen and ink by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), 1894. (British Museum, London)

Via.

odditiesoflife:

Basket Jim does his thing in Covent Garden, London in 1930.

(Source: quentintarantinos, via btfreek)

poboh:

Luxembourg Gardens, Monument to Chopin, Henri Rousseau. French (1855 - 1910)

luzfosca:

Larry Silver

Bronx Subway Station, 1950

From Larry Silver: Early Work: New York

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heaveninawildflower:

Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge (1619-1620) by Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573 - 1621). Oil on copper.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Google Art Project: Home via Wikimedia.

heaveninawildflower:

‘Auckland, from the Verandah of Mr Reader Wood’s Cottage’ (1856) by John Kinder (1819 - 1903). Watercolour.

Auckland Art Gallery Google Art Project: Home via Wikimedia.

heaveninawildflower:

Summer Sunlight (Isles of Shoals)1892 by Childe Hassam (1859–1935). Oil on canvas.

Google Art Project: Home via Wikimedia.

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omgthatdress:

Dress

1837-1840

The Victoria & Albert Museum

endlessquestion:

John Nash - A Path Through Trees, 1915

(Source: endlessquestion, via antelucanhourglass)

mucholderthen:

Elizabeth Blackwell
1701-1785
A Curious Herbal

Notable both for its beautiful illustrations of medicinal plants and for the unusual circumstances of its creation.

Elizabeth Blackwell was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of “A Curious Herbal”, published between 1737 and 1739. The book illustrated many odd-looking and unknown plants from the New World, and was designed as a reference work on medicinal plants for the use of physicians and apothecaries.

Blackwell undertook this ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtor’s prison. She drew, engraved, and colored the illustrations herself, mostly using plant specimens from the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.

It was an artistic, scientific and commercial enterprise unprecedented for a woman of her time.

[ source:  Turning the Pages - National Library of Medicine ]

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