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Posters for Harry Kellar (1849–1922) the hugely popular US magician who inspired the likes of Harry Houdini, and reportedly acted as model for the bald-headed wizard in the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published in 1900 — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harry-kellar-s-show-posters
The art of arranging marine algae into designs, bouquets, and even sometimes intricate little scenes, was surprisingly popular in the 19th century. See an album of such pictures by a woman named Eliza A. Jordson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/album-of-seaweed-pictures-1848
My latest @guardian book cartoon
That's because this is Silmarillion
OnThisDay in 1821, after more than 5 years in exile on St Helena, #Napoleon died. While imprisoned on the remote island, le petit caporal started learning English. One resident of the island called his English “the oddest in the world”. — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/napoleons-englich-lessons #OTD
Extract from The Hasheesh Eater (1857) by novelist/journalist Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Terence McKenna would describe Ludlow as “Part genius, part madman, … halfway between Captain Ahab and PT Barnum, a kind of Mark Twain on hashish”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-hasheesh-eater-1857?utm_content=buffer93dad&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #fourtwenty #four20
Mark Twain died #onthisday in 1910. The best known of his books is Huckleberry Finn, not so well known is Jap Herron which, according to a woman named Emily Grant Hutchings, he dictated from beyond the grave via a ouija board… https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jap-herron-a-novel-written-from-the-ouija-board-1917 #OTD
Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895.
More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882
Alice Morse Earle, Sun dials and roses of yesterday, 1902
Dream Vision; A Nightmare (1525), by Albrecht Dürer, who died #onthisday in 1528. The watercolour and accompanying text describe an apocalyptic dream he had on the night of 7-8th June 1525.
More art depicting #dreams here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-dreams #OTD
One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/watercolours-from-a-16th-century-de-materia-medica
Born #onthisday in Wisconsin in 1868, the US photographer and ethnologist Edward S. Curtis. Here’s his circa 1914 series depicting the ceremonial dress and masks of the Kwakwaka’wakw, an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-curtis-photographs-of-kwakwaka-wakw-ceremonial-dress-and-masks-ca-1914
A few of the stunning illustrations from a 16th-century treatise on comets — known as The Comet Book — created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France).
More info and images from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book
Pudet = Face Palm.
From John Bulwer’s Chirologia, or The Naturall Language of the Hand (1644), the English physician’s attempt to record the vocabulary contained in hand gestures and bodily motions. ⠀ More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chirologia-or-the-natural-language-of-the-hand-1644
French novelist Jules Verne was born #onthisday in 1828. 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://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emile-antoine-bayard-s-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870 #otd
“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection.”
One of the 32 stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-original-theory-or-new-hypothesis-of-the-universe
Woodcuts from Lorenz Stoer’s Geometria et Perspectiva, 1567.
From Stoer’s unique, image-based treatise on linear perspective — in each woodcut a complex polyhedron or combination of solids are embedded in a kind of dreamlike ruinscape. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-geometric-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-geometric-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567
