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oldpaintings

Young Girls at the Piano, 1906 by Gabriel Deluc (French, 1883--1916)

random-brushstrokes

Louis le Brocquy - Girl in Grey (1939)

memories-of-ancients

Brass astrolabe, Morocco, circa 1700

from The Khalili Collections

heaveninawildflower

Cock Pheasant (1916). Designed by John Henry Dearle (Workshop of William Morris). Maufactured by Morris & Co.

Tapestry (1916). Wool and silk on cotton warp.

Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0.

nemfrog

A woman plays a lute. A stag listens. Der Ring des Frangipani. 1901. Hans Thoma, illustrator.

Internet Archive

through-a-historic-lens

Girl leaning against a wall, Autochrome taken by Gustave Gain in France c 1919

michaelmoonsbookshop

The Reader - Harold Knight

werewolf-transgenderism

started knitting my beowulf socks today. it turns out that all you need to do to get me to knit socks is slap some insular script on there

werewolf-transgenderism

HWÆT!

kayflapper

Painting titled "Gwen Playing Cards" by Scottish artist Herbert James Gunn. (1922)

random-brushstrokes

Gustave Courtois - Young Florentin playing with cats (1882)

theinternetarchive

gaming table of wood and ivory marquetry; germany c. 1735.

charlottearthistory

‘evening reading’ - georg vilhelm paulli (1884)

cuties-in-codices

14th c. pheasant hunting trick (a pheasant being lured into a hunter's trap by its own reflection in a mirror, which it believes to be a particularly beautiful mating rival that it needs to fight)

illustration from a manuscript of henri de ferrières' hunting manual, le livre du roy modus et de la royne racio. paris, c. 1375-1400

source: Paris, BnF, Français 1297, fol. 88r ; for more context on the mirror trick see this blog entry by artifexinopere as well as this edition of ferrières hunting manual (pp. 283-286 for the pheasant chapter)