♥ illustration

[femsolid]

I like art that depicts women not posing seductively or gracefully but simply existing as human beings.

[sheheisk]

Works:

1. Ampio orizzonte by Ettore Tito, 1910 2. Mariana (Millais) by John Everett Millais, 1851 3. Bathing Girls by Paul Gustave Fischer, 1860-1934 4 If a woman reads a book in the forest but no one is there to see it... by Jenna Gribon, 2020 5. The Reader Wreathed with Flowers / Virgil's Muse by Camille Corot, 1845 6. In the Garden by Helena Janecic 7. A girl with her bike looking over the water by Alexander Akopov 8. Girl with a Straw Hat by Francine Van Hove 9. After the Ball by Ramon Casas, 1895 10. Untitled by Francine Van Hove

[happyheidi]

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

[farewell-to-lorien]

LOTR Triptych, by Yaroslava Murashko.

[pulpsandcomics2]

Some of Lewis Carroll’s original “Alice” illustrations

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.

I’m collecting some weird, rare variants of Alice in Wonderland imagery.

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[vanessagillings]

Year of the tiger getting ready to hand things off to year of the rabbit! 🐯🐰 明けましておめでとうございます!

[thefugitivesaint]

L. Kate Deal, “Child-library Readers”, Book Four, 1924 Source

[weepingwidar]

Rachel Newling (British, 1956) - Kookaburra and Giant Spear Lily (n.d.)

[mysterium-solis]

Illustration by Charles Robertson for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant (1911 edition)

[inland-delta]

Artist: Oamul Lu

[ohmycavalier]

Having a friend over to share some soup.

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[lepetitdragonvert]

Up One Pair of Stairs of my Bookhouse

Edited by Olive Beaupré Miller

The Bookhouse for Children

1920

Illustrator : Katherine Sturges Dodge

The wonderful World

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,

With the wonderful water round you curled,

And the wonderful grass upon your breast -

World, you are beautiful dressed. 

By William Brighty Rands

[sesiondemadrugada]

Tom Killion.

[soft-lovely]

f*ck it, here are some silly pet paintings

[soft-lovely]

f*ck it, here are some silly pet paintings

[love]

The Heavenly Tenants by Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981)