Caviglia's Cabinet of Curiosities

At Caviglia's Cabinet of Curiosites, we draw pictures and write stories. Some are true. Some are not. We are currently accepting commissions of all sorts. We specialize in pin ups, chorus girls, creative portraits, fairy tales and robots. Please "like" our facebook page to follow all Cabinet related happenings and doings. I can also be found on Instagram.

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The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West - ORIGINAL ART

Rebecca West is shaping up to be one of the great forgotten geniuses of the 20th century. Here, I wax rhapsodic about West in general and The Fountain Overflows specifically: http://cavigliascabinetofcuriosities.blogspot.com/2011/05/rebecca-west-fountain-overflows.html $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - ORIGINAL ART

Becky Sharp is in color. Everyone else is not. $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood!

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Dope by Sara Gran - ORIGINAL ART

Just read Sara Gran's gloriously seedy midcentury crime novel, Dope. With it's down at heel hookers, junkies, taxi dancers and show biz wannabes, her version of 1950s Times Square is as hard boiled as hell. $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue - ORIGINAL ART

Inspired by an 18th century broadside, Donoghue's flawless book about sex work, murder and dresses. $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood! (Ridiculously appropriate for this one too!)

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Poor Tess, bludgeoned by fate. $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood! (which is RIDICULOUSLY appropriate)

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Life Mask by Emma Donoghue - ORIGINAL ART

A gigantic, complicated, queer historical novel that will particularly delight aficionados of late 18th century politics, art and theater - focusing on sculptress Anne Damer, actress Eliza Farren (there's a glorious portrait of her in the Met in NYC) and the Earl of Derby (of horse racing fame). $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees - ORIGINAL ART

One of the best, strangest, least read, early 20th century fantasy novels. $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood!

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Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost - ORIGINAL ART

The scandalous early 18th century French picaresque - containing one of the earliest portrayals of La Nouvelle Orléans full of crime and sex and murder and amorality and true love. $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham - ORIGINAL ART

Poor Philip with his clubfoot and his doomed love for green skinned Mildred. $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood!

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Stamboul Train by Graham Greene - ORIGINAL ART

This book gets my vote for most overdue for an adaptation. Trains. Spies. Anti-Semitism. I think it will resonate. $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas - ORIGINAL ART

Romance! Poisoning! Revolution! Masacres! Farce! Royalty! Schemes! $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood!

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Orlando by Virginia Woolf - ORIGINAL ART

Inspired by Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. (Oh, what I wouldn't do to illustrate this whole book) $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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Hild by Nicola Griffiths - ORIGINAL ART

A modern illumination inspired by Nicola Griffith's glorious, immersive novel about the imagined early life of Saint Hilda in 7th century Britain. $20 of this sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood!

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I now have a Wilkie Collins Fan Art section in my RedBubble store. Do I have my finger on the pulse of the nation OR WHAT?

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Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson - ORIGINAL ART

Mapp is of course enraged by this illustration. If you would like to read more about Mr. Benson and his mapp and Lucia books, read here. $20 of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!

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From the #sketchbook #brideoffrankenstein #pencil #castle #universalhorror

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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 

One of my favorites that hardly anyone seems to have read.

$20 of the sale price goes to Planned Parenthood!