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The Illuminated Moby-Dick: Artist Illustrates Every Page of Herman Melville’s Epic Book

"I wanted a slow, intense pace through the book so I decided to create one illustration a day, every day, for every single one of the 552 pages of my Signet Classics paperback, and on August 4, 2009 I began" - Matt Kiss ...

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Georgiana Houghton’s Spirit Drawings: A Victorian Medium Channels The Eye of God

“Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit)” - Susan Sontag ...

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13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

"Beautiful England - on her Island throne - Grandly she rules - with half the world her own; From her vast empire the sun ne'er departs: She reigns a Queen - Victoria Queen of Hearts" ...

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A Teenager’s Secret Street Photography From 19th Century Oslo

Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer (3 September 1874 – 13 August 1957), a renowned mathematician and ...

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‘Chains That Set Women Free’ – Glorious 19th Century Posters of Women on Bikes

'The bicycle has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike' - Susan Brownell Anthony, 1896 ...

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Edvard Munch’s Experimental Selfies

“Illness, madness, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life” - Edvard Munch ...

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The Celestial Archive Advent Calendar

Conceived , compiled and designed by Stephen Ellcock and Hugh Hales-Tooke, the Celestial Archive ...

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‘I Jumped From The Window’ And Other Illustrations of the American Slave Trade (1817)

"And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death" - Exodus xxi. 16. ...

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Baroque Wigs In Paper Topped With Modern Objects Of Desire

Russian artist Asya Kozina updates those towering powered wigs ( perukes) popular with the nobs ...

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The Ram’s Horn: Frank Beard’s Cartoons Save America (1890s)

"Blow the ram's horn trumpet in Zion! Trumpet the alarm on my holy mountain! Shake the country up! God's Judgment's on its way - the Day's almost here! " - Joel 2:1 ...

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Aubrey Beardsley’s Sublime and Sinister Illustrations For Edgar Allan Poe (1894)

Aubrey Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) illustrated the work of Edgar Allan ...

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A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

These postcards take us back to France in the 1890s. Through the wonder of Photochrom coloring, we ...

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