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Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Terrifying Illustrations As God’s Creatures Exact Revenge In The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop

Tommy Titop is, to quote Stephen Ellcock, a ‘little thug who drowns kittens, pesters puppies and decimates the lesser creation; he gets his comeuppance in a series of dreams in which the roles of tormentor and tormented are reversed as in The World Upside Down.’ Tommy is the star or The Tribulations of Tommy Tiptop, Published by Myra & Son, London, 1893. ...
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Goethe : Illustrating The Abstract Psychology of Color and Emotion

Goethe : Illustrating The Abstract Psychology of Color and Emotion

"Colors are light’s suffering and joy" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
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A Slave’s Letter: Jordan Anderson’s Exquisite Reply to His Former Owner

A Slave’s Letter: Jordan Anderson’s Exquisite Reply to His Former Owner

  On August 7, 1865 Jordan Anderson (aka Jourdan Anderson and Jordon Anderson) wrote to Colonel ...
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Great Portraits of Ireland and The Irish At The Turn of The 19th Century

Great Portraits of Ireland and The Irish At The Turn of The 19th Century

"There is a time when individuals can bear to be rallied for their past follies and absurdities, after they have acquired new habits and a new consciousness. Nations, as well as individuals, gradually lose attachment to their identity, and the present generation is amused, rather than offended, by the ridicule that is thrown upon its ancestors" - Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent ...
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The Life of Prince Omar Ibn Said : The Muslim Slave’s Autobiography (1831)

The Life of Prince Omar Ibn Said : The Muslim Slave’s Autobiography (1831)

"His whole person and gait bear marks of considerable refinement” ...
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Elizabeth Cobbold’s Papercut Invitations to her Annual St Valentine’s Day Ball – 18th Century

Elizabeth Cobbold’s Papercut Invitations to her Annual St Valentine’s Day Ball – 18th Century

'Eliza to William this Valentine sends / While ev'ry good wish on the present attends / And freely she writes undisturb'd by a fear / Tho' prudes may look scornful, and, libertines sneer' - Elizabeth Cobbold to her new husband ...
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How Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Japanese Prints Inspired His ‘Art of the Future’

How Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Japanese Prints Inspired His ‘Art of the Future’

"All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art" - Van Gogh ...
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Impressionism As Street Photography: George Hendrik Breitner’s Streets of Amsterdam

Impressionism As Street Photography: George Hendrik Breitner’s Streets of Amsterdam

"The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king" — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles ...
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19th Century Illustrations for the Surgical Removal of Unwanted Parts of the Human Body

19th Century Illustrations for the Surgical Removal of Unwanted Parts of the Human Body

"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time" - Henri Matisse ...
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New York in Motion: Incredible Photographs of The City That Never Sleeps (1880s)

New York in Motion: Incredible Photographs of The City That Never Sleeps (1880s)

When not working as a chemist and at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science's departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy, Wallace G. Levison was taking photographs. Advances in technology allowed Levison to capture his native New York in motion. ...
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Gorgeous Book Design and Binding: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Delights

Gorgeous Book Design and Binding: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Delights

'The strength of the frontiers, which had always consisted in arms rather than fortifications, was insensibly undermined; and the fairest provinces were left exposed to the rapaciousness or ambition of the barbarians, who soon discovered the decline of the Roman empire' ...
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19th Century Student Drag Queens

19th Century Student Drag Queens

'As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking' - Virginia Woolf (Orlando) ...
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