Cheer Extravagance

Themes according to season. Usually reblogs. Usually images. My other blog is https://www.tumblr.com/ivannazinga.

[nemfrog]

The Shubunkin. Japanese Goldfish: Their Varieties and Cultivation. 1909.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Hotel ceiling light fixture. Sweden. 1955.

Internet Archive

[tomoleary]

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) "Get Secretly Behind the Tree" Walton's Compleat Angler (1931) Source

"I am glad to enter you into the art of fishing by catching a chub, for there is no fish better to enter a young angler ... Go to the same hole in which I caught my chub, where in most hot days you will find a dozen or twenty chevens floating near the top of the water; get two or three grasshoppers as you go over the meadow, and get secretly behind the tree..."

[nemfrog]

Stein and Goldstein. Carousel Horse, between 1912 and 1916, Brooklyn, New York. Polychromed wood, 71 inches long. The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection; National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

200 Years of American Sculpture. 1976.

A Bicentennial exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, shown from March 16 to September 26, 1976.

Internet Archive

[oldbooksarchive]

Papillons

cheap high quality printables

[enchantedbook]

‘At the back of the North Wind’ by Jessie Wilcox Smith, 1919

[nobrashfestivity]

Hiroshi Yoshida, Rapids, 1928

Color Woodcut

MFA

[the1920sinpictures]

1923 Two girls kissing. From frostedmagnolia.tumblr.

[huariqueje]

Unknown , Life Carousel , Wild devil - Jaana Paulus , 2024.

Finnish, b. 1963 -

Woodcut and gilding, 97 x 65 cm.

[bouletscintillant]

The Flower Girl, Capri - Sophie Anderson (English, 1823-1903)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Enchantress, oil on canvas, 1925-26 by Rolf Armstrong 

[spinmeround]

Frederick Childe Hassam (Bowl of Goldfish, 1912)

[edmund-dulac]

The Tempest: Ariel and the Bee, Edmund Dulac

https://www.wikiart.org/en/edmund-dulac/the-tempest-ariel-and-the-bee

[dailyclassicart]

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe - "Dreamy" (1877)

[heaveninawildflower]

Strawberry plants (1655) by Johann Walter (1604-1677).

Gouache on vellum.

Bibliothèque nationale de France.

[questcequecestqueca]

Walter Molino

[7pleiades7]

Catching Butterflies, (detail), (19th century) by Émile Eisman-Semenowsky (French-Polish, 1857 – 1911), oil on panel, 86 × 26.7 cm. (33.9 x 10.5 in.), Private Collection