Sweetdottianix.

[nemfrog]

Electric Plants.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Phlox. A handbook of trees, shrubs, etc. 1930.

Internet Archive

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

matthewarnone

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)

[requiem-on-water]

“Tudor Woman at the Window Holding a Dagger” by Lee Avison

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

There’s still nothing like Dark Shadows.

[charnel-grounds]

Norman Lindsay (1879–1969), “Siren Call”

watercolour on paper, 1955

source

[charnel-grounds]

Miles Johnston (b. 1993), “Agony”

oil on canvas. 2017–18

source

[diana-andraste]

[weepingwidar]

Jannik Hösel (German, 1998) - Semele (2025)

[thunderstruck9]

Jannik Hösel (German, 1998), Semele, 2025. Oil on canvas, 50 x 30 cm.

[oldjewelryfeed]

Antique Victorian Medicine Poison Bottle Gilt Enamel Crystal c1880 Skull Warning

[butchqueersapphic]

Paris lesbian club, 1934

[efemmera-archive]

Postcard illustration by Douglas Tempest (1887-1954), circa 1910s

[toiich]

Jean Cocteau’s Hands, 1927, Berenice Abbott

[charnel-grounds]

Gustave Doré (1832–1883), “One More Unfortunate”, 1871

“… Mad from life’s history, / Glad to death’s mystery, / Swift to be hurl’d— / Any where, any where / Out of the world! …”

illustration to Thomas Hood’s poem ‘The Bridge of Sighs’

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)

Artist: Edward Robert Hughes (British, 1851–1914)

Date: c. 1902

Medium: Gouache and pastel on stretched paper

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Against an indigo sky, a nubile rider grasps the black wings of a flying steed, her body gleaming in the moonlight, her golden tresses let loose in the wind as she peers down at the stony structures of a city built along a river many miles below. Is this a goddess of antiquity, a fairy, a captured princess? This allusive, seductive, strange, Symbolist scene by Edward Robert Hughes immediately captivated audiences upon its 1902 exhibition at the London's Royal Watercolor Society. As The Builder's exhibition review exclaimed, "among the larger works of the year is one of importance, both in style and execution. It represents a kind of work seldom undertaken in water-colour and seldom seen at… the Society. This is Mr. E. R. Hughes' large and striking picture entitled 'A Dream Idyll'" (The Builder, p. 544).

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Mariana

Artist: Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829–1896)

Date: 1851

Medium: Oil paint on mahogany

Collection: Tate Britain, United Kingdom

Description

Mariana is a character from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. Her fiancé Angelo leaves after her family’s money is lost in a shipwreck. Still in love with him, she hopes they will be reunited. Here Millais shows Mariana pausing to stretch her back after working at some embroidery. Autumn leaves scattered on the ground suggest the passage of time. The painting was originally exhibited with lines from Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘Mariana’: “She only said, ‘My life is dreary – He cometh not!’ she said; She said, ‘I am aweary, aweary – I would that I were dead!’”