Prohibition Pirates

[enchantedbook]

"Offering" by Ulla Thynell

[spacepearl]

Ulla Thynell is also on tumblr! https://ullathynell.tumblr.com/

[charnel-grounds]

František Kozics (1864–1900), Nacht im Moor (Night in the Bog)

illustration from Jugend #15, 1896

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Lev Lerch (Austro-Hungarian, 1856-1892) Will o the Wisp, 1888 National Gallery Prague

[nemfrog]

Human jaw at 6 ½ years old, showing baby teeth and undescended adult teeth. A treatise on the irregularities of the teeth and their correction. 1888.

Internet Archive

[detailedart]

1. The November Meteors, chromolithograph from the Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1882 - 2. Leonid Meteor Storm seen in November 1833, from the Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt.

[postcardaday]

Circus Sideshow, Georges Seurat, 1887-1888.

[mudwerks]

(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 5187)

A carnivorous Ya-te-veo (“I see you”) tree, depicted in “Sea and Land” (1887) by J. W. Buel.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (Franco-Swiss, 1767-1830) Théodora (La Emperatriz Theodora), 1887

[prohibitionpirates]

$136,715 in April 2026 has the same buying power as $7,923.25 in January 1920.

[requiem-on-water]

“Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull Portrait” (2016) by Olga Beliaeva

[enchantedbook]

'The Big Troll in Breifonna' by Theodor Kittelsen.

[weepingwidar]

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914) - The Princess Grooms the Troll (1900)

[dailyclassicart]

Carl Gustav Carus - "Gothic window with telescope, Faust's study"

[dailyclassicart]

Jean-Paul Sinibaldi - "Salammbô" (1885)

[nemfrog]

Mythical creatures. Duden italiano. 1939

1. dragon · 2. unicorn · 3. griffin · 4. chimera · 5. minotaur · 6. centaur · 7. harpy · 8. siren · 9. Pegasus · 10. sphinx · 11. giant · 12. Cerberus · 13. Triton · 14. sea horse · 15. sea bull

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Byrhtferth's Diagram of the Microcosm and Macrocosm. Makers of science. 1923.

An 11th century monk attempted to show a correspondence between everything in the universe. That a fourfold structure underlies nature, time, the human body, and the cosmos.

The four elements — Earth, Fire, Water, Air

The four cardinal directions — East, North, South, West

The four seasons — Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

The four solstices and equinoxes

The four qualities — hot, cold, wet, dry

The four winds

Various zodiac signs and months along the outer rings

Internet Archive

[metamorphesque]

The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).