A sky full of ghosts.

Mainly history, art, nature and Tolkien.

[nemfrog]

“Atlas scarab.” An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India. 1800. Frontispiece Friday.

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(Unknown). Kometenbuch (Comet Book). Domina Capillorum, Veru, Unnamed, Scutella, Rosa, Miles, Geben ou Tenacusum, Azome Austrement Dominis Aschone, Aurora, Argentium. 1587.  

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African Lycaenidae.

Illustrations taken from ‘Rhopalocera Exotica’ by Henry Grose Grose-Smith and W. F. Kirby. Published 1887 by Gurney & Jackson.

Smithsonian Libraries

Biodiversity Heritage Library.

archive.org

[humanoidhistory]

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Planet Earth, as seen from orbit on the first day of the Gemini 10 mission, July 18, 1966. (NASA/ASU)

[centuriespast]

ZICHY, Mihály Coronation of Alexander II 1857 Watercolour, gouache and white on cardboard, 527 x 700 mm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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Mandala of Hevajra Buddhist Deity. Central Tibet. 1500s.

[fleurdulys]

The Woman in the Waves - Gustave Courbet

[creatures-alive]

Purple Honeycreeper by Michel Bordeleau

[centuriespast]

GUÉRIN, Pierre-Narcisse Dido and Aeneas c. 1815 Oil on canvas, 292 x 390 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

[koredzas]

Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder - Hercules and the Hydra. Dertail. 1537

[historicaltimes]

Japanese Samurai, 1880

via reddit

Seguir leyendo

[fleurdulys]

View of Saint Petersburg in moonlight - Vachagan Ispiryan

[centuriespast]

COYSEVOX, Antoine Mercury 1702 Marble Tuileries Garden, Paris

[magictransistor]

Shaman Mask. Evenki People, Sibera. 1770.

[unhistorical]

Hubert Robert (May 22, 1733 – April 15, 1808)

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[fleurdulys]

The Fall of Babylon - John Martin

1831