The Scribleriad

Disjointed thoughts and images, cobbled together from strange sources.

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From Table Talk, Volume 6, published 1891.

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anfre:

Vintage Crayons

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airsunyi:

An advertisement for a burlesque show, 1898.

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Solitude, from L'Artiste, 1844

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Also, on L'Artiste dates

Just went back through the early pages of the L'Artiste issue I was drawing from, and realized that although Google lists its publication as 1814, the publication itself lists 1844 (easy to misread). L'Artiste was published from 1834 to 1904.

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L'Artiste, 1844

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L'Artiste, 1844

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The original, for comparison, from 1844 L'Artiste

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L'Artiste, 1844; this seemed to be a flub of imaging (there is a high-res version of this a few pages prior, and I suspect this was the ghostly impression left behind on a waxy leaf), but I love the effect.

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From L'Artiste, 1844 (inspired by oldbookillustrations!)

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Félicien Rops, illustrated motto for Barbey d’Aurevilly.

From L’Artiste, vol. 8, Paris, 1894.

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Big Dick, under the Christmas tree?

From Little Folks, Volume 22, Issue 2, from 1918; the magazine was "an illustrated monthly for the youngest readers."

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His soul had seen a vision while he slept; She, for whose spirit he had pray’d and wept So many years, had come to him, all drest, In angels smiles, and told him she was blest

John Tenniel, from Lalla Rookh : an Oriental romance, by thomas Moore, London, 1861.

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Chats, 1896

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen

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From Vikram and the Vampire, Richard Francis Burton

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From Vikram and the Vampire, translated by Richard Francis Burton, only loosely based on the original. 

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From Richard Francis Burton's Vikram and the Vampires, or Vikram Aur Betal (in Hindi), late 1800s.