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Poems of the Pillow :  An Illustrated Book of Erotic Sex (1788)

Poems of the Pillow : An Illustrated Book of Erotic Sex (1788)

Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro's 12 illustrations of sexually explicit shunga pictures published in 1788 ...
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Illustrations from A 1000-Year-Old Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants

Illustrations from A 1000-Year-Old Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants

The entire 1000-year-old Cotton MS Vitellius C III is now online - featuring extraordinary illustrations of plants with descriptions of ailments the plant can be used to treat, where they can be found and how to prepare the medicine. ...
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Fabulous Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (Nuremberg 1540)

Fabulous Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (Nuremberg 1540)

Illustrations of full-length masked and elaborate costumed figures from a riotous German parade ...
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Guido da Vigevano’s Art of The Cadaver (1345)

Guido da Vigevano’s Art of The Cadaver (1345)

Guido da Vigevano is a forerunner of later Renaissance artist-engineers like Taccola, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Leonardo da Vinci ...
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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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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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The Extraordinary Album Art by Mozelle Thompson

The Extraordinary Album Art by Mozelle Thompson

"Mozelle Thompson was the only prolific African American artist to illustrate album covers. He was a pioneer in his industry, working alongside the first-generation artists who contributed to the history of album cover art within the first 15 years of its existence." - J. Malls ...
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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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The ‘Oooo Face’: That Puckered Look Every Woman Was Making Mid-Century

The ‘Oooo Face’: That Puckered Look Every Woman Was Making Mid-Century

If you’ve seen old advertisements from the 1950s, then you know exactly what the “Oooo Face” is ...
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Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

'I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis' - H.P.Lovercraft ...
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David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." ...
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