LINE AND SHADE

Mary Joy tattoos at Ed Hardy's Tattoo City in San Francisco. All artwork is original unless otherwise note

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Blue bell, bonny bell, ring for the wedding! Gallant youg Hyacinth’s married the rose

From Five mice in a mouse-trap, by Laura E. Richards, Boston, 1881.

(Source: archive.org)

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Iconographic Drawing of Miroku, the Buddha of the Future

Miroku nyorai zuzô

弥勒如来図像JapaneseKamakura period13th century

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEPanel; ink and color on paper

DIMENSIONS92.6 x 80cm (36 7/16 x 31 1/2in.)

CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

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Rene Lalique

"Serpents" corsage ornament c. 1898-99

Gold and enamel

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

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El Hada Madrina, from La Esfera Magazine by Manuel Bujados (Oct. 1915)

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abismo black arts

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Death with Concupiscence, Earthly Riches and Pride by Hieronymus Wierix, 1619 (engraved)

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Grand duchess Elisabeth Fyodorovna and friends painting flowers , birds and butterfies on the wall. Mids 1880s.

[allaboutmary]

Mary’s sorrowful heart in Naples, Italy.

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circa 1910

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[the1920sinpictures]

August, 1916 Actress Virginia Pearson in "Motion Picture" magazine. From Silent Era and Pre Code Art, FB.

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Photography by Xuebing Du

Instagram: xuebing.du

[the-evil-clergyman]

Crow and Spider by Ohara Koson (Early 20th Century)

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Paul Rumsey ‘Furies’

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Alex Morph Shadrin ‘The Mortal Hell of Solitude’

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Death's Head Hawk Moth: From "The Naturalist's Library" by Sir William Jardine, Circa 1840; Engraving by William Lizars.

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Alexandre Perier & Lourenço Morganti, Desenganno dos Peccadores, 1735